What does' Zenyatta mondatta' and ' Reggatta deblanc' mean?

Question

Titles of the first 2 Police albums.

Looking for the actual meaning of the phrase. French? Or other?

Looking for the actual meaning of the phrase. French? Or other?

Answer 1

Zenyatta Mondatta:

Zenyatta Mondatta is the third album by The Police, released in 1980 (see 1980 in music).

Written during the band's second tour and recorded in just four weeks (minus several days for a short tour of the Netherlands), the album is often regarded as one of their best works. However, the band members themselves have often expressed disappointment over it, going so far as to re-record two songs during a brief, unsuccessful reunion. Drummer Stewart Copeland, who contributed the songs "Bombs Away" and "The Other Way of Stopping", said about the time pressures:

"We had bitten off more than we could chew. We finished the album at 4 a.m. on the day we were starting our next world tour... It was cutting it very fine."

Nevertheless, Zenyatta Mondatta went to #5 in the U.S. and #1 in the U.K., spurred by the success of the Sting-penned singles "Don't Stand So Close to Me" and "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da". It would later receive glowing reviews from re-assessments in Rolling Stone and Q Magazine, among others.

As alluded to by Copeland, the Police embarked on a tour of the world the day of the album's completion, beginning in Belgium and reaching places such as India and Egypt.

The album itself is the last of the Police's early era, influenced by reggae and punk and featuring few musical elements on top of the core guitar, bass, and drums. Perhaps due to the lack of time for writing lyrics, the record has three instrumentals, "Voices Inside My Head", "The Other Way of Stopping", and the Grammy-winning "Behind My Camel". The latter was guitarist Andy Summers' first entirely self-penned composition, and it was not popular with the other members of the band. According to Sting, "I hated that song so much that, one day when I was in the studio, I found the tape lying on the table. So I took it around the back of the studio and actually buried it in the garden." Allegedly, Sting was so uninterested in the piece that he refused to play it. Andy Summers managed to coax Stewart Copeland into recording the bit as a duo, and then overdubbed the bass line himself. One can notice that the bass does sound different in this recording when compared to the rest of the album. Since the recording later won the band a Grammy award, it created an amusing situation where Sting would receive an award for a performance he actually did not make.

Zenyatta Mondatta is also notable for containing the first lyrics referring to political events, with Sting's "Driven To Tears" commenting on poverty and Copeland's "Bombs Away" referencing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. These themes would become more prevalent in the Police's next album, Ghost in the Machine.



Reggatta deblanc:

Reggatta de Blanc is the second album by The Police, released in 1979.

"Message in a Bottle", a Sting-penned song about alienation, opens the album. It is followed by "Regatta de Blanc", the album's instrumental, and one of the few songs written by all members of the Police; the instrumental piece came from the long instrumental break in the live performance of "Can't Stand Losing You" and earned the band the 1981 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. "It's Alright For You" is a driving punk-ish song featuring strong guitar and drum parts. The next three tracks, "Bring on the Night", "Deathwish", and "Walking on the Moon" all have a strong reggae feel to them. "On Any Other Day" features a rare lead vocal from Stewart Copeland, and is a humorous take on a middle-aged man's mid-life crisis. "The Bed's Too Big Without You", an empty-feeling return to reggae follows. "Contact" and "Does Everyone Stare" are a pair of songs dealing with the connection, or lack thereof, between two individuals. The frenetic "No Time This Time" closes the album.

The album took only a few weeks (spaced over several months) to record, but unlike its successor Zenyatta Mondatta, there was no pressure on the band. As Stewart Copeland describes it, "We just went into the studio and said, 'Right, who's got the first song?' We hadn't even rehearsed them before we went in."

The album continued to build on the success of the band's previous record, Outlandos D'Amour, hitting #1 on the U.K. charts upon its release in October 1979. "Message in a Bottle" and "Walking on the Moon" were released as singles and both reached number one in Great Britain. In 2003, the album was ranked number 369 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Answer 2

I think Reggatta De Blanc is supposed to mean White Reggae

And as far as I ve found Zenyatta Mondatta was just two made up words that sounded cool. Although Mondatta means Sentence in Hungarian.

Answer 3

Reggatta

Answer 4

Reggatta De Blanc