chris@world.std.COM (Chris'n'Vickie of Kansas City) (01/07/90)
>declann@uunet.uu.net wrote: > >Hi love-hounds, hope you all had a happy Christmas and New Year. > >Anyway, while I was at home for Christmas (in Dublin) I was pottering >around a record store when I spotted the album "Touch" by Sarah McLachan. >Having heard good things about her a number of months ago on gaffa, I >decided to buy the album and was quite pleased with it. Its not a classic >of our time or anything but I like it a lot especially the song "Vox". Here is some info on Sarah McLachlan from the sticker on my promotional copy of her (first and only) album. Forgive the usual record company hyperbole. This is taken from the ARISTA (American) release of the album. ******************************************************************************** It's there in her delicately powerful voice. It's in the fingers that caress the strings of her twelve-string classical guitar and carefully choose each key on her piano. It's the rare TOUCH of Sarah McLachlan. Just 20 years old, vocalist/songwriter/musician Sarah McLachlan comes from a different place, geographically and musically speaking. Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Sarah's sound marries her strong post-modern attitudes with her strong classical influence, the result of 12 years of classical guitar training and another eight years studing classical piano. This uncommon background is as uncommon as her music. Sarah's music is passionate and haunting - her songs TOUCH on a variety of emotions and moods. As you will discover, it's a TOUCH you've never felt before. ******************************************************************************** I found the NETTWERK release of this album last January in NYC at VinalMania in the Village. I was there for the New York Computer Graphics Show and was doing the usual sweep of the record stores in Greenwich, asking if they had any female artists I hadn't heard of yet. Sarah was one (The others were The Rainbirds and Mary Kelley.) On my way up to Boston for SIGGRAPH, I stopped in Chicago for Ami-Expo and stayed with friends. We were looking for something to do on a Sunday night, and found an ad for a free concert by Sarah at a bar called Shuba's (I think). She performed her songs with a *very* tight band, switching between piano and guitar. In contrast to her album covers, she was dressed in a t-shirt and jeans. She covered all the songs on "Touch", several new songs and a very nice cover of Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" (available as the b-side of a promotional live 12" of "Steaming"). I talked to Sarah and her manager after the concert. She's very animated, in the way Kate was in early interviews, expressive eyes and hands. She seemed pleased with my comment comparing, seeing her at this stage of her career, with what it must have been like seeing Kate playing pubs with the KT Bush Band or seeing Jane Siberry in Guelph. I have the Canadian and American releases of Touch. The American copy has an additional track, "Touch", and the CD has an extended version of "Vox". I haven't seen any yet, but I'm told that a number of club re-mixes exist on the west coast to the song "Steaming". She's currently in the studio according to the folks I talked to at NETTWERK records. They had a family-like attitude about Sarah, constantly refering to her as "our Sarah". Chris of, Chris'n'Vickie of Kansas City
ed@das.llnl.gov (Edward Suranyi) (01/08/90)
>The American copy >has an additional track, "Touch", and the CD has an extended version of "Vox". > > Chris of, > Chris'n'Vickie > of Kansas City The American version of Sarah's album does indeed include another track, but it's not "Touch". That's the title track! I don't have my copies of the albums in front of me, so I can't remember what the extra track is, but I am certain it's not "Touch". Ed ed@das.llnl.gov
ed@das.llnl.gov (Edward Suranyi) (01/08/90)
Yesterday, I wrote: >The American version of Sarah's album does indeed include another track, >but it's not "Touch". That's the title track! I don't have my copies of >the albums in front of me, so I can't remember what the extra track is, >but I am certain it's not "Touch". I have now looked at the albums, and the extra track on the American version is "Trust". Sorry to bother those readers who don't care, but I had to set the record straight. Ed ed@das.llnl.gov
steiner@TOPAZ.RUTGERS.EDU (Dave Steiner) (02/13/90)
I found a Canadian CD5 single of her song Steaming which includes
"Steaming" (radio version), "Steaming" (dance version), and "Solsbury
Hill" (Live). The last song is great (not as good as the original,
but that goes without saying, IMHO). I don't think I found out about
Sarah from this newsgroup and I don't remember if she's been mentioned
here. In case she hasn't, if you like The Innocence Mission I think
you'll like Sarah's album _Touch_. If you haven't picked up _The
Innocence Mission_ yet and you read this newsgroup, shame on you....
go do it right this minute!! I mean it!!! Good stuff.
ds
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