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Music CD - Sarah McLachlan: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
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Music CD: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Artist: Sarah McLachlan
List Price: $13.98
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Manufacturer: Arista
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Tracks:
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1. Possession
2. Wait
3. Plenty
4. Good Enough
5. Mary
6. Elsewhere
7. Circle
8. Ice
9. Hold On
10. Ice Cream
11. Fear
12. Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0078221872522
Label: Arista
Manufacturer: Arista
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Arista
Release Date: 1994-02-15
Studio: Arista
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Summary: A bridge between sounds
Comment: Sarah McLachlan's first two albums Touch and Solace contained numerous folk and Celtic influences that resonated with college radio audiences, but those earlier albums seemed to lack a homogenized sound across the board. Early standouts included the Celtic Drawn to the Rhythm, the sultry Steaming, Path of Thorns, and Into the Fire.
However, on 1993's Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, Sarah and Pierre Marchand created an album that solidified Sarah's sound into a dark indulgence, opening with the unnerving Possession, based on Sarah's own experiences with a stalker. The album version sounds darn near perky, with its bright electric guitar and organ, but the real haunt comes on the hidden bonus track, a stripped-down, soul-baring moment that features only Sarah's voice and a piano (this is the same version that was featured on Due South: The Original Television Soundtrack).
Wait achieves a kind of foot-tapping impatience by its persistent bass and cymbals underscoring staccato piano chords. Hold On was based on the story of a woman whose fiance was dying of AIDS. Plenty and Ice make use of disorienting sound effects to throw the listener off guard; the haunting, bitter laugh at the beginning of Circle is downright creepy.
The carefully crafted soundscape leans towards the somber in general; this is my late-night mood music of choice, along with her next effort Surfacing. All of the elements come together beautifully, and Sarah inhabits these songs in a way not present on earlier albums with an intensity that's breathtaking to behold. She also released acoustic studio versions of the songs on Fumbling on The Freedom Sessions [EP] [ENHANCED CD], which is worth owning as a companion to Fumbling.
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Summary: Buy it.
Comment: I've read some very well thought out and critical comments for other albums on here that speak of the artists talents, shortcomings, etc. This isn't one of those, mine is all about emotion. Listening to this album is almost a rapturous experience for me. This music, the voice, the lyrics...they reach so very deep into me and stir otherwise sleeping feelings of love, desire, fear, loss and the unique pleasure of merciful solitude.
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Summary: REALLY GREAT CD
Comment: This is a really great album. I am not a huge fan of Mclachlan's later work but I must say that if you're a female and you don't own this album you better get it! I listen to every song on here. The lyrics are poignant, moving and easily relatable. It's a must have!!
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Summary: Deserving to be on the tip of everyone's memory.
Comment: All of her music displays a humanism and an ability to make tangible our varied and fragile emotions. Such a relief from current nihilistic or jaded takes on life. Check out her new album 'World On Fire'. This woman personifies awareness, sensitivity, and compassion.
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Summary: Sarah McLachlan
Comment: Your space becomes a cathedral when this artist begins to play her piano, her guitar. The music lights invisible votive candles, twenty at a time.
If you want to listen to a beautiful record from an angel who's connected to a rocking attitude yet sings her confessional lyrics in an unforgettable style, listen to Sarah McLachlan's lilting voice croon and calm your world.
Listen to it quaver for a moment, drawing you in to the lyric. "I won't fear love." she promises in the title track. "Just tell me why nothing is good enough," she asks of a failed relationship in another song.
Sarah was born in Nova Scotia, took classical piano and vocal lessons and fronted a "new wave" band called October Game. She must have impressed the Nettwerk Records maven because they signed her to a solo deal.
Her personal songwriting benefits from the long-time collaboration with producer Pierre Marchand. He places guitar licks where they do the most good and presents a dynamic, yet subtle rhythm section.
We are all the better for it. If there is any way that music can be a balm for the soul--Sarah's music is what it would sound like. It transports you into another level of being if you let it.
Her third record, "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy," is a pure pleasure to hear. Please promise yourself to get a copy of it. She rocks to support the message in her music. She soothes with a sigh.
"Possession," "Good Enough," "Circle," "Hold On," and "Fear" are my favorite songs. Yet the entire album flows so sweetly, so smoothly, your body will create a new flow of endorphins.
Honest, earnest music can do that.
The best music, like the best poetry, is a healing, heavenly experience transmitted to the artistic human who tunes into it. Sarah, thank you for bringing it to us. All we need do it tune in.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Pre-Lilith Fair, McLachlan had critical acclaim and a cult following but was otherwise just another hard-working female singer/songwriter--one who wasn't blasting down doors with overt sexuality or popping along in front of a male Svengali. Similar in their emotional urgency to her more recent work but delightfully less polished, these folk-rock songs are surprising gems. If not for McLachlan's poignant vocals, lyrics like "Your love is better than ice cream" (on "Ice Cream") would sound childishly absurd (especially alongside deeper material like "Hold On"), but here they're given just as much respect as the weightier issues she explores. A great album to accompany your moments of introspection. --Rebecca Wallwork
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