From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V7 #73 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 Thursday, September 30 2004 Volume 07 : Number 073 In This Digest: ----------------- Fw: [sarahs-universe] Sarah Slean new website ["Neal Jennings" ] Re: New Slean ["Julian C. Dunn" ] Re: New Slean [Kyall Glennie ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 01:53:05 -0400 From: "Neal Jennings" Subject: Fw: [sarahs-universe] Sarah Slean new website - ----- Original Message ----- From: Cathy Hendrix To: sarahs-universe@lists.sarahslean.com Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 6:22 PM Subject: [sarahs-universe] Sarah Slean new website Sarah's Universe - Sarah Slean's e-Newsletter - ---------------------------------------------------------- - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To all of you on this mailing list, Sarah's Universe by Mailman... I just want to let you know that when the updated website, www.sarahslean.com, is up and running later today, there will be a new email sign up program called The Sarah Slean Mailing List. We have taken care of importing the names from this list over to the new list so you don't have to sign up again. Not that you would want to but, there is an opt-out feature on that new list. On the other hand, there will also be a new message board. Any of you who are registered at the Nightbugs Hotel message board will need to re-register at the new one. The Nightbugs Hotel message board will be left active for a short amount of time but then will be discontinued. The next email update you get (probably tomorrow) will have details about the release of Day One, the new website and tour info... Stand by! Cathy Hendrix Michael Dixon Management - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ sarahs-universe mailing list sarahs-universe@lists.sarahslean.com http://lists.sarahslean.com/mailman/listinfo/sarahs-universe ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 01:51:25 -0400 From: "Mickey" Subject: The elegant lady and the sensitive boy from Canada. Courtesy of BabelFish: SLEAN/RON SEXSMITH The elegant lady and the sensitive boy from Canada. 12 September 2004, Tivoli the slope, Utrecht (NL) Voorprogrammazangeres Sarah Slean and zanger Ron Sexsmith, both, finished Toronto in Canada on a Sunday evening in Utrecht. It was not zomaar a Sunday evening. It was finally 12 September, and that was exact? year after passinging away The man in Black oftewel good old Johnny cash. I had planned myself that aware Sunday evening with listening to old vinyl plates of June casing and spend Johnny cash, but digs after popquiz in I finished again in achterafstraatje in an industrial area where the slope has established, formerly the floor been called, again some time. Two times missed I Ron Sexsmith in the Netherlands, of which? time because Mr for Crossing called off border because he for or wants play other high political pief in own country. And Sarah Slean, which had been not earlier in the Netherlands for a concert. The elegant lady sate oneself behind Yamaha-keyboard and started with closed eyes to a song. You must dare it but: game in a strange country for wildvreemde people. The combination of a vulnerable woman and piano called of course immediately an comparison with soberder Tori Amos. Pianoriedeltjes and spontaneous remove had sometimes suspected much gone of that American singer. Nevertheless astonished Slean by calling Cohen compatriot Leonard as its main counsellor. She had been even this way fascinated by the choice of Cohen withdrawing itself as a monk in a convent which them a song had spontaneously made. But there few Cohen could be detected in that song. Perhaps heal had TOMs Waits, if he had been made in the much-frequented zaaltje, avances to Sarah Slean. But Waits have already married and Slean can not even prompt if he in Carr?peelt. Well, Slean can sing very lieflijk and the ten fingers find simply their way to the tests on Yamaha-apparaat, but it touched me further not real. It was how many see people present, however, striking its songs could sing and how some stared minute-long amorously to the pianiste. At the last number, in which the link of Sexsmith the accompaniment break looked after, in a pleasant manner the tension and silence. Ron Sexsmith (photograph) date from 1964, but he was still in the role of kind, onschuldige little boy. The timid rolling up ball layman a piece more youngly than he sees, but that did further a little. When he and the three kwajongens of link members started with a warm gloed to thoughtful headstock songs which to the adult work of The Beatles reminded, seemed be there still little to the hand. Only very even, in a song of Steve Earle, singer-songwriter Sexsmith lashed at exactly even something more feller. ' From Now On ' of its new plate Retriever was its protestsong against the policy of Bush. Subtle headstock numbers as ' Imaginary Friends ' and ' Tomorrow in Her Eyes ' were brought without poeha and sounded zowaar pleasant in the ears, but ondank the game pleasure of four lasted it a couple numbers before the spark skipped also to publicly. , Yamaha-keyboard demonstrated told tussendoor funny tales to Sexsmith and reacted to gebrul of a dronken man. But it became just real magically then the sympathetic link almost unnoticed the podium left and Sexsmith to its destiny left. Really superb vertolkingen of some older numbers, and one dedicated to Jeff Buckley, ensured a siddering by the room. Afterwards the rest of the link joined himself at the zanger, but the past peak with respectively only Sexsmith and Sexsmith with a cellospelende drummer had been enough for that evening. If I get somewhere the chance seeing link Sexsmith without, then think I about that none two turn. Because a link, which does not have such a talented boy necessary. - ----- Original Message ----- From> Subject: Dutch review of concert in De Helling > > http://www.kindamuzik.net/live/article.shtml?id=7247 > > ------------------------------ > > End of navy-soup-digest V7 #72 > ****************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 21:02:50 -0600 From: Leslie Chin Subject: New Slean Anyone listen to Day One yet? It is different. I like it though. Maybe not more than Night Bugs...yet. It'll take a little getting used to Sarah with less piano. L. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 19:43:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Julian C. Dunn" Subject: Re: New Slean On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Leslie Chin wrote: > Anyone listen to Day One yet? > > It is different. I like it though. Maybe not more than Night Bugs...yet. > It'll take a little getting used to Sarah with less piano. I got it today - and I like it too! It's definitely more radio-friendly. I'll need a few more listens before I can really provide an in-depth review, but so far it's great. - - Julian - -- [ Julian C. Dunn * ] [ WWW: www.aquezada.com/staff/julian/ * www.dreaming.org/~julian/ ] [ PGP: 0xFDC205B9 - 91B3 7A9D 683C 7C16 715F 442C 6065 D533 FDC2 05B9 ] [ "half a love is better than no love at all" - nerissa nields ] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:33:52 -0600 From: Kyall Glennie Subject: Re: New Slean Leslie Chin wrote: > Anyone listen to Day One yet? I've had the album in MP3 format for about three months. (Minus the bonus track, of course.) I just received my album today in the mail, so I feel justified to give the review I've been aching to share for a long time! This is one of the most politically-charged albums I've heard in a long time. Given that I live and breathe politics (it's my day job and clear hobby, people) that may be just my reading into the "revolution," but Sarah is singing about things much more in tune with world moods than I ever thought she would. The album's theme is a revolution. Perhaps not a political one, but even if it's a personal one, this character is going through a revolution where their eyes are open for the first time. Pilgrim: "brother if you're hungry but not wounded," - i.e., you're living in a wealthy society like Canada but you still feel hungry for change. You're not wounded by the hunger of starvation (of nutrition) but rather of ideas, life, etc. Lucky Me: "and you're sad, you're sorry, let it all out, what are you running for? this is your chance! be ready!" - Well if you are down on your luck and wishing for the hunger to stop, then get it together and start this revolution. "Lucky me!" (yeah, lucky you, it's not going to happen without your own intentions. No one will do it for you.) Mary: "The century is raging but so are we" The century of massive industrialisation and development, but also heartache - we are raging for change. California: um. I don't fit it into the revolution puzzle. But it's wonderful none-the-less. :) Day One: "After the dream came out of the mines / Bus boys and bankers / were wiping their eyes" after the revolution started, people from all walks of life (proletariat and bourgeoisie) were wiping their eyes with amazement to what this world is. "And all your green won't mean a thing at all" - all your money isn't going to matter when the world cooperates. Out in the Park: "don't you know what time it is? it's the new time." The first day after day one. The first day after everyone figures out this massive social change. "in between commercial breaks / it's a new war / men with books have run away to the coast" Perhaps war as it was known has ended - now, the men (good feminist symbolism for capitalists) have run away and the women (again, symbolism for the oppressed) have stopped trying to get them to come back - they are "plotting a counter attack" because now they can realise their dreams. "filling her pockets with handfuls of dirt" - Obviously realising the wonder of the world for one of the first times - how dirt brings life, etc. Vertigo: "terrible calm, terrible joy / this dream I have it's gold" - Hesitation at at a crossroads - this revolution is worth fulfilling, it's just very difficult to do so. When Another Midnight: "it's shock, it's horror, it's despair! it's Socrates weeping in a wheelchair / Teacher drooling, unaware / where my students, where, where?" - Socrates being the philosopher of wisdom, that we must continually search for the truth - perhaps at this stage in the revolution, the "students" (common folk) have stopped searching for truth. Perhaps they have accomplished a lot, only to be complacent - or perhaps they haven't accomplished anything due to corruption. "Come out! come out! the Time is now!" - Take action, don't be receding into "garages like frightened birds." - now is the time for this revolution. Especially since this is at least one year after "boy wonder" has died - -meaning that spark of idealism that started this revolution has since long gone away. It's time to rejuvinate it. The Score - again, I can't fit it into the theme. I've never been a fan since hearing it live in 2002, though, so that's okay. :) Your Wish is My Wish: "Keep on running to the dawn" - get over the problems this revolution is facing. Get through the darkness of night and you will survive and the revolution will be won. Wake Up: "you don't want to sleep through this" - it seems the revolution truly appears, as opposed to earlier when everyone thought it had, but at this point it's truly here - hence the bittersweet tone - it's soft and quiet when the thing you want most actually arrives because it's been so long coming. Now, this may be all my idealistic socialist crap speaking, but I really feel a sense of connection with the album on a personal and political level at the same time. I've done the personal revolution (at least I think I have) and I can't wait for the social revolution. My standout track is "When Another Midnight" because the strings are wonderfully woven. It's my "Me I'm a Thief" stellar standout. peace and solidarity, kyall ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V7 #73 ******************************