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...and yes, I'm a good Canadian, and a fan of Canadian music, and of female singer/songwriters, and of piano-based pop, and of deep lyrics, and of all that good stuff. But mainstream Sarah McLachlan is all over the airwaves, and I know it all really well just by the sheer fact that I have a radio and ears. It's not that I don't like it, but I don't need it. This CD is something else again. It's her first, and although I'm no music critic, to me it sounds totally different from her other stuff. More earthy, stranger, more ethereal -- like it just dropped out of the clear blue sky, untouched by more common influences. It took me some time to get in touch with it, but now it's like a… Read more
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I nabbed this two summers ago, and even after repeated, repeated listenings I haven't stopped enjoying it. By turns whimsical and orchestral, it's just great to get lost in. There's something genuinely charming about Sarah Slean's music (on this album anyway, since it's all I have) -- kind of old-fashioned, kind of waifish, kind of warbly, and eminently singable. Not exactly your typical pop music, not exactly classical...somewhere in the middle. And it WILL get your toes tapping at more than one point.
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This, as my teacher told us, is a novel one must reread every five years or so. Not a quick or easy read, The English Patient one of those books written in language so distilled, so concentrated, that one phrase can be explicated for pages. Its images, many of which I do not yet understand and many of which I'm sure I missed this time through, slip in and out of your consciousness long after you've finished the novel. The effect is that of someone tugging gently on your sleeve and saying "hey, pay attention -- this is important, this is what meaning is made of." The story is that of 4 characters who have come to inhabit a bombed-out, ruined and abandoned Italian villa… Read more
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