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Jane Siberry's last album during a five-year critically-applauded but commercially-negligible tenure with Reprise Records, 1993's WHEN I WAS A BOY trades the optimistic loveliness of albums like THE WALKING and BOUND BY THE BEAUTY for a darker, occasionally bleak meditation on love and loss. Inspired by the recent death of her father, Siberry has constructed a song cycle with little of the exhibitionistic mawkishness of, say, Sinead O'Connor's I DO NOT WANT WHAT I HAVEN'T GOT.
Instead, Siberry's lyrics are more general and poetic, which makes their emotional heft that much greater. The heartbreaking "The Vigil (The Sea)" and the cathartic and uplifting "Love Is Everything"--here in two versions--are as powerful and musically breathtaking as any pop music dealing with the subject of death.
Recorded at Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, Canada in Summer 1991; Reaction Studios, Toronto, Canada in Autumn 1991 and January 1993; Erdyl's Studio Backstage, Switzerland in February 1991; Westside Studios, London, England in Summer 1992.
Engineers: Michael Phillip-Wojewoda, Peter Mettler.
Composers: Erdal Kizilgay; Ken Myhr; Jane Siberry.
Personnel: Jane Siberry (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, background vocals); Ken Myhr (vocals, guitar); Rebecca Campbell, Paul Douglas, David Ramsden, k.d. lang, Michael Phillip Wojewoda, Rebecca Jenkins, Holly Cole (vocals); James West (guitar, organ); Michael Brook (guitar); Ben Mink (viola); Anne Bourne (cello); Brian Eno (oboe, synthesizer); Erdal Kizilgay, Teddy Borowiecki (piano); Glenn Milchem, James Pinker (drums); Sid Wells, Graham Dickson (programming).
Recording information: Erdyl's S (02/1991-01/1993); Mushroom Studios, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (02/1991-01/1993); Reaction Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (02/1991-01/1993); Westside Studios, London, England (02/1991-01/1993).
Unknown Contributor Roles: Michael Brook; Brian Eno.
Personnel: Jane Siberry (vocals, keyboards, guitar); K.D. Lang (vocals); Ken Myhr (guitar, percussion, background vocals); Michael Brook, Jamie West-Oram (guitar); Ben Mink (viola); Anne Bourne (cello); Brian Eno (keyboards, guitar); Bryant Didier, Robert Ahwai, John Switzer (bass); Glenn Milchem, James Pinker (drums); Michael Phillip-Wojewoda (percussion, background vocals); Sid Wells, Graham Dickson (programming); David Ramsden, Holly Cole, Rebecca Jenkins, Rebecca Campbell, Paul Douglas, Andy Stochansky (background vocals).
Producers: Brian Eno, Michael Brook, Jane Siberry.
Rolling Stone (11/25/93, p.120) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...WHEN I WAS A BOY is funereal and expansive....Nothing Siberry has done in the past prepares the listener for this album's spooky obsession, bewilderment and resignation....Siberry approaches her task with fearless simplicity..."
Q (8/93, p.100) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...this is an album crammed with neat, if hardly light-hearted, moments, which improve with every listen..."
Melody Maker (7/31/93, p.29) - "...WHEN I WAS A BOY [is] subtly powerful...[Jane] Siberry mingles the gooey and the sinister..."
Musician (10/93, p.90) - "...at its most harrowing, [WHEN I WAS A BOY] surpasses even the intensity of Lou Reed's LOVE AND LOSS....Not an easy listen, but surely a rewarding one..."
Village Voice (3/1/94, p.5) - Ranked #25 in the Village Voice's 1993 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll. When I Was A Boy Music | List Price | $13.96 (You save $5.57) | | Category | Rock Albums, Pop CDs, Alternative, Rock/Pop, Folk | | Label | Reprise | | Orig Year | 1993 | | All Time Sales Rank |  12942  | | CD Universe Part number | 1100567 | | Catalog number | 26824 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 03, 1993 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Recording Time | 66 minutes | | Personnel | Ben Mink - viola
Anne Bourne - cello
Teddy Borowiecki - piano
Robert Ahwai
Jane Siberry - vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, background vocals
James Pinker - drums
Glenn Milchem
Andy Stochansky - background vocals
Paul Douglas
James West - guitar, organ
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