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SURFACING is an Enhanced CD containing both a full audio program as well as multimedia computer files. SURFACING was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Pop album. "Building A Mystery" won the 1998 Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal ... Full DescriptionPerformance. "Last Dance" won the 1998 Grammy for Best Pop Instrumental Performance.
"Adia" was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
On her fifth album, Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan returns with a simpler collection of songs which quietly explore the darker aspects of human nature. SURFACING is a group of straightforward songs which get right to the point, both musically and lyrically, dealing with such heavy topics as faith, life and death in an appealingly accessible way.
McLachlan's unmistakable soaring voice displays its usual angelic tones and amazing versatility, abetted by the familiar, assured stamp of longtime producer and collaborator Pierre Marchand, making SURFACING McLachlan's most mature album yet. Right from the start, with the anthem-like pop tune "Building a Mystery," McLachlan sets the tone, simultaneously shadowy and calm. SURFACING is an introspective musical landscape, a tight collection of thought-provoking songs from one of today's most talented artists.
Personnel: Sarah McLachlan (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano); Brian Minato (electric guitar, bass); Michel Pepin (electric guitar); Yves Desrosiers (guitar, lap steel, bass); Ash Sood (piano, drums, percussion); Pierre Marchand (keyboards, bass, percussion, drum programming, background vocals); Jim Creeggan (acoustic bass).
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This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Rolling Stone (12/25/97, p.164) - "...McLachlan favors maternal patience over bombshells, whipsered intimacy over a quick payoff. Her songs are cast in deep-blue tints and gray-day moods; she soaks her voice in warm echo..."
Entertainment Weekly (7/25/97, p.70) - "...Her best tunes recall the sinewy clarity of early Joni Mitchell....Never have McLachlan's recordings sounded so dense and alive. Yet the album's centerpiece remains the star's voice--an instrument rich and knowing enough to redeem even the poor souls her lyrics embrace." - Rating: B Hide Description Surfacing Music | List Price | $9.99 (You save $0.64) | | Category | Rock Albums, Alternative CDs, Rock/Pop, Enhanced CD | | Label | Arista | | Orig Year | 1997 | | All Time Sales Rank |  38   | | CD Universe Part number | 1110420 | | Catalog number | 18970 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Jul 15, 1997 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Pierre Marchand | | Engineer | Pierre Marchand | | Personnel | Sarah McLachlan - vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano
Pierre Marchand - keyboards, bass, percussion, drum programming, background vocals
Jim Creeggan - acoustic bass
Brian Minato - electric guitar, bass
Michel Pepin - electric guitar
Yves Desrosiers - guitar, lap steel, bass
Ash Sood - piano, drums, percussion
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Sarah McLachlan Surfacing Songs Surfacing Music Review Average Rating: (4.4 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews Pure Heaven
My goodness. McLachlan's voice captures and plays with each note and makes you hear the value of them. Her soulful voice is genuine, tender, fragile, and strong--all at the same time. You will play this album over and over again, finding new elements of yourself each time you listen to a song.
Submitted by brianfos (Castro Valley, CA) 
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One of my top ten
I have a variety of listening interests, but Sarah McLachlan's "Surfacing" is among my all time favorite albums. This is one of those rare CDs where I don't skip over songs and it such easy music to listen to that I never get tired of it.
Submitted by FOX76493 (Knoxville, TN)
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Simply beautiful... I love Adia, Do what i have to do, Angel. Very essential for Sarah's fans.
Submitted by Stephane (Canada)
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perhaps not the best album of her oeuvre, but the tracks of this album on mirrorball are done amazingly, bringing them to a more enlightened context. Otherwise, the album Surfacing in of itself, seems empty, vague and rather hackneyed.
Submitted by first love (charleston, uk)
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RISING TO THE TOP!
sara McLachan has a phenimeniol voice! this cd is so relaxing and gentle on the spirit. with her beautiful song ANGEL which was a song in memory of those we lost sept 11 and the families who lost their loved ones. the whole album is simply beautiful and angel makes me shed a tear everytime! enough said-McLachans surfacing has reached the stars!
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Purchase Surfacing CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Jewel Pieces Of You CD (1995)
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Jewel was nominated for the 1997 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. "Who Will Save Your Soul" was nominated for a 1997 Grammy for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
When this Alaskan decided to give up her day job and move into her Volkswagen van in 1993, she began an almost storybook ascendance to the upper echelon of singer-songwriters. Like so many other aspiring musicians with a guitar and a story to tell, Jewel is a keen observer of human behavior. But it is her voice, a classically-trained instrument that has developed far beyond Jewel's 22 years, that makes her debut album--much of which was recorded at Neil Young's Broken Arrow Ranch with pieces of his HARVEST MOON band--such a joy.
Jewel's is a special voice, one that can portray enormous emotional range with only slight alterations in color and texture. She sings "I'm Sensitive" ...
| | Paula Cole This Fire CD (1996) Parental Advisory
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All tracks have been digitally mastered using HDCD technology.
THIS FIRE was nominated for 1998 Grammy Awards for Album Of The Year and Best Pop Album. "Where Have All The Cowboys Gone" was nominated for 1998 Grammys for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. Paula Cole won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
Singer-songwriter Paula Cole bares her soul on her self-produced second album, displaying even more self-confidence than on HARBINGER. There is a sense of breaking with the past, especially on tracks like "Tiger," where Cole revisits the symbolic "Bethlehem" of her first album, singing, "I've left Bethlehem and I feel free/I've left the girl I was supposed to be." Lyrically, THIS FIRE is ferocious and unrestrained, and Cole's limber voice is suitably raw and versatile, veering from whispery-soft to edgy and emotional, delivering a fearlessly personal message.
When she sings, "You call me a bitch in heat/And I call you a liar" (on "Throwing Stones"), the word "liar" emerges as a furious scream. The next track, "Carmen," in contrast, is gently nostalgic. Cole's songs are emotionally complex and open to interpretation, but they are never deliberately vague, and ...
| | Loreena McKennitt Book Of Secrets CD (1997)
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1997 release shows the new age vocalist keeping in the same vein, mixing Celtic, Spanish, Italian & new age to create her own distinct sound. Eight tracks including the favorite 'The Mummers Dance'. Quinlan Road.
Loreena McKennitt began her career as a New Age pop chanteuse, steeped in Celtic folk mysticism and possessed of an airy, ethereal voice. Over the course of her career she has dabbled to varying extremes in the pop format, but she remains true to the spirit of the traditional balladeer on THE BOOK OF SECRETS. With the aid of top-flight musicians like Danny Thompson and David Rhodes, she weaves a web of fanciful, wispy folk-rock that's not afraid to be beautiful as it pulls listeners in with it's comforting hypnotic qualities.
Personnel: Loreena McKennitt (vocals, harp, kanoun, accordion, piano, keyboards); Brian Hughes (vocals, acoustic, electric & classical ...
| | Sarah McLachlan Solace CD (1991)
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In 1992, at the young age of 24, McLachlan had a very real command of the pop idiom, and her songwriting was not only mature, it was rare and exceptional. The gothic vocal piece "Mercy" and the atmospheric "Home" are quite evocative. However, the highlight of SOLACE is the poignant "I Will Not Forget You." On this track, a wash of guitars and subtle piano chords are supported by rich percussive textures (which clearly recall Peter Gabriel's seminal records). The final song on the album, "Wear Your Love Like Heaven" arrives on the heels of several dense, brooding tunes, and this radiant Donovan cover ends SOLACE on an upbeat note.
SOLACE is Sarah McLachlan's sophomore effort, and while it would take one more album (FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY) to fully break into the US market, this ...
| | Sarah McLachlan Fumbling Towards Ecstasy CD (1993)
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Heavily atmospheric, building around intertwined harmonies and lush arrangements, FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY might remind some of early Sinead O'Connor. McLachlan's ethereal vocal style pulls from the same sources as O'Connor, but add a calm that's more akin to contemporary jazz or new age than the pop charts McLachlan has climbed. The lifeblood of her songs are her physical and emotional relationships with people. With lyrics centered around satisfaction and the ways to maintain it, much of FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY doesn't fumble but caresses.
Her lyrics compare love to ice cream, and promise kisses to make her lover breathless. Listening to the album, it's not hard to imagine what McLachlan has on her mind, nor why she's on the charts. FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY shows an artist busily ...
| | Sarah McLachlan Mirrorball CD (1999)
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This is an enhanced audio CD which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
MIRRORBALL was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Pop Album. "I Will Remember You" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. "Possession" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
Though not marketed overtly as a live album, MIRRORBALL sports periodic crowd noises along with an astonishingly clean sound. It also explores aspects of the Sarah McLachlan phenomenon--the frank, confessional singer/songwriter style of music ...
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| | Freaky Friday CD (2003) Original Soundtrack
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The old adage about things staying the same the more they change is handily borne out by 2003's FREAKY FRIDAY, the remake of a 1976 film starring Jodie Foster where a young girl and her mother mysteriously change identities. A full generation down the road, Jodie Foster was old enough to play the mother, but the role was taken by Jamie Lee Curtis, and the daughter became rising actress/singer Lindsay Lohan. It's doubtful that there was a soundtrack to the original film, but in the age of pop music/film tie-ins, the new movie is filled to the brim with pop-punk by the likes of Simple Plan, American Hi-Fi, and the Donnas. ...
| | Bjork Greatest Hits CD (2002) (Import) Import; Japan
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Throughout the '90s, Bjork established herself as a sui generis solo artist, unswervingly following her own idiosyncratic path after stepping out from the sheltering umbrella of Icelandic alt-rock stars the Sugarcubes. With her almost-alien little-girl-lost vocals, unconventional song structures, and adventurous production that married electronica, rock, and orchestral traditions, she became one of the decade's most striking artists. From the vantage point of 2002, after such classics as VESPERTINE have been unleashed on the world, a GREATEST HITS album certainly seems in order, even ...
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