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ecto-digest          Friday, February 1 2008          Volume 13 : Number 386



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                               Today's Subjects:
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  Re: Sarah Brightman has a new album (just hear me out)   [jjhanson@att.net]
  Re: Sarah Brightman has a new album (just hear me out)  [morayati@email.un]
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:00:38 +0000
From: jjhanson@att.net
Subject: Re: Sarah Brightman has a new album (just hear me out)

I got Sarah's album and am loving it--but then I like her more symphonic/operatic stuff.
But this album features a cover of Lisa Gerrard's Sanvean (my favorite track of Lisa's)
and a duet with Alessandro Safina.  Wow.  And amazingly beautiful packaging.

So what do you mean about illness?  I hadn't heard she was ill.

Jeff (just back from London to see Alison Moyet--wow!  stunning concert, not quite
as energetic as when I saw her in LA but definitely my all-time favorite vocalist)
- -------------- Original message from morayati@email.unc.edu: -------------- 


> Yes, I'm a Sarah Brightman fan. Quite a devoted one, in fact. 
> Everything in my music collection can be traced back to her. She 
> inspired me to start singing. And on Tuesday, her album 'Symphony' will 
> be released. 
> 
> Basically, Sarah Brightman is an artist whose core fan base, in my 
> opinion, is a liability. After Time To Say Goodbye (which I hate) got 
> big, she picked up a lot of middle-aged fans weaned on adult 
> contemporary, Celine Dion-type stuff, who have since been pandered to. 
> They would probably come after me with pitchforks for this. 
> 
> I often wonder what kind of music she would be making if none of that 
> ever happened. It'd probably sound more like Fly, her second major solo 
> album and, in my opinion, her best one. Fly has no pandering whatsoever 
> (because the Celine crowd wasn't on the bandwagon yet) and is actually 
> edgy. And it has a Stina Nordenstam cover. That's my recommended first 
> album of hers, and Symphony, at least at times, inches back towards 
> that direction. 
> 
> "Fleur Du Mal" is by far the best song on there. It doesn't quite reach 
> Nightwish-like proportions, but it's in that mold. I haven't heard all 
> of the tracks in their entireties so I can't comment on them. Ignore 
> the dumb Italian Faith Hill cover; I'm certainly planning to. (See my 
> above comments about pandering.) 
> 
> It's definitely worth a try. And you can't deny that she is an 
> excellent singer, even if she's declined a bit from illness and age. 

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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:14:17 -0500
From: morayati@email.unc.edu
Subject: Re: Sarah Brightman has a new album (just hear me out)

Around December of 2006, she gave a concert in China and some people on 
the forums were criticizing her performance. A few weeks later either 
her or Frank Peterson mentioned that she had been ill and at the time 
she had not completely recovered.

Quoting jjhanson@att.net:

> I got Sarah's album and am loving it--but then I like her more 
> symphonic/operatic stuff.
> But this album features a cover of Lisa Gerrard's Sanvean (my 
> favorite track of Lisa's)
> and a duet with Alessandro Safina.  Wow.  And amazingly beautiful packaging.
>
> So what do you mean about illness?  I hadn't heard she was ill.
>
> Jeff (just back from London to see Alison Moyet--wow!  stunning 
> concert, not quite
> as energetic as when I saw her in LA but definitely my all-time 
> favorite vocalist)

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