From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V5 #59 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Wednesday, March 27 2002 Volume 05 : Number 059 In This Digest: ----------------- Re: Night Bugs in Holland ["alex" ] Sarah at the cosmetics counter?! ["Tabassum Siddiqui" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 08:38:21 +0100 From: "alex" Subject: Re: Night Bugs in Holland Hi I think us -european- should do as much as poosible to promote Sarah so we would be able to see her in Europe; like I started to call french radios to talk about her and i gonna do some bigger stuff soon. If some european pl want to join me, please email me. Alex - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edi Vermaas" To: "Navy Soup" Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 12:33 AM Subject: Night Bugs in Holland > Ordered last Wednesday, the new CD arrived today at the other side of the > Atlantic! > > After listening only once: > DRASTIC MEASURES is absolutely fantastic!!! > And I heard a lot other interesting stuff. > >From the catogory 'oldies': Weight is amazing. > > Sarah is changed from a girl with a lovely intimate voice to a young woman > combining so much different talents (composing, text writing, arranging, > teambuilding). On her previous CD 'Blue Parade' we saw already that she was > going in a direction of making very interesting complex musical compositions > and was not afraid of experimentations. Night Bug is a giant step further in > that direction. And I like it. > > Additional remark on SWEET ONES: > This is for sure a potential winner for the European Songfestival. It's sad > that Canada isn't an european country. Perhaps the Canadian can trade-in the > canadian dollar for the euro in exchange for the right to send Sarah to that > contest. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 00:24:35 +0000 From: "Tabassum Siddiqui" Subject: Sarah at the cosmetics counter?! Hey, all... Yet another odd little Sarah promo sighting... My sister was shopping today and came across a promotion at the Cargo Cosmetics counter - they're giving away a CD sampler featuring Warner artists including Michelle Branch, Natalie Merchant, and... Sarah, with Sarah being the 'featured attraction'. Kinda strange, but neat nonetheless. Cargo is a Canadian makeup company and can be found at The Bay department stores in Canada and selected boutiques and Sephora stores in the U.S. (the offer's only good in Canada, though, for a limited time). - - Tab :) _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 20:17:54 -0500 From: Lauren Subject: Sarah Slean's Split Personality I don't recall seeing this article on the list. Apologies if it's already been posted. http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2002/03/2009.cfm Sarah Slean's Split Personality Wednesday March 20, 2002 @ 03:00 PM By: ChartAttack.com Staff Sarah Slean has an alter ego named Emily, who lives in France, needs new shoes and drinks too much. Now before you get too confused, in her regular life Slean is a talented Toronto-based singer-songwriter. She has just released her major label debut album, Night Bugs, a masterful integration of musical theatre melodramatics and sophisticated pop. So where does Emily enter into things? It appears that Slean uses the persona of Emily as a means of establishing some necessary distance from the material she writes and sings. Emily is in essence a psychological device that allows Slean to express ideas that she might not have been able to otherwise. "She can say the things that Ibm not brave enough to say," explains Slean. "The truth about myself that perhaps I donbt want to hear or admit to, I have to say it through Emily." Emily can become so real that Sleanbs style of singing takes on a whole new character. "Sometimes my voice takes on an older French feeling," Slean acknowledges. "Itbs Emily. It comes from her throat." In addition to Emily, a number of other characters inhabit Sleanbs songs, from the flirtatious vamp in "Sweet Ones" to the moneyed materialist in "Bank Accounts." Slean brings these characters and their stories vividly to life, unfailingly drawing the listener into their world. "I try to create a place with the song," she explains, "a place where you can feel the colours around you, the kind of characters hanging around you in the bar, and whether they have pocket watches or umbrellas, and whether theybre nice to their mothers. I want to have a scene that I can feel. My favourite artists can do that: Joni Mitchell, T.S. Eliot, Tom Waits." The richness and diversity of Sleanbs music may prove difficult to slot into commercial radio. However, Slean has not experienced any pressure from her record company to mould herself into the next Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette or Britney Spears. "I was pretty clear from the beginning that I have no desire to be that," Slean says. "Ibm simply interested in making stuff, be it visual art, songs, musicals or film scores. Ibve been really up front with Warner about that. And theybve been really good about it. They said, bHey man, go play in the paints.b" ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V5 #59 ******************************