From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V7 #77 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, October 6 2004 Volume 07 : Number 077 In This Digest: ----------------- Billboard article ["Tab Siddiqui" ] RE: Billboard article ["Kelly Goodlad" ] Re: RE: Billboard article ["Rannie Turingan" ] Re: RE: Billboard article ["Julian C. Dunn" ] Re: RE: Billboard article ["James McGarry" ] Re: RE: Billboard article [jessica weiser ] Re: RE: Billboard article ["Kelly Goodlad" ] Re: RE: Billboard article ["Rannie Turingan" ] Macleans Reveiw ["Katie Belsher" ] Re: Macleans Reveiw ["Julian C. Dunn" ] Re: RE: Billboard article [wini ] Re: RE: Billboard article ["Julian C. Dunn" ] Re: Charlotte Martin (was Re: billboard article) ["Julian C. Dunn" Subject: Billboard article some interesting tidbits in this article. for one, the news that Warner has signed Sarah to a worldwide deal, which seems to indicate that her records will finally see the light of day in other territories -- namely Europe (seems to be more of a priority at the moment) and the U.S. looks like the Sexsmith tour has been a really good pairing, although i'm curious to know if her eventual Toronto date is going to be a double-bill (there's a Sexsmith date slated for Nov. 25 at the Danforth Music Hall, which is a beautiful venue). i just think it would be odd for her to not have her own headlining show at home following the CD's release. i guess we'll see. - - tab. BILLBOARD October 09, 2004 Slean Finds Her Rhythm Canadian Singer/Songwriter Changes Direction With Third Album BY LARRY LEBLANC TORONTO - The new album "Day One" may be a rebirth for Canadian singer/songwriter Sarah Slean, but it was a difficult one. Faced with a crippling emotional crisis in summer 2003, Slean left her Toronto home and moved to a cabin in rural Almonte, Ontario, for four months. There, she spent time painting (the artwork is featured on "Day One"), writing songs and working out some personal issues. "I was in pieces, and I couldn't figure out why," Slean recalls from Stockholm in the midst of a 26-date European tour opening for fellow Canadian Ron Sexsmith. "Something in my heart and my spirit was in desperate need of a jump-start." When she returned to Toronto, renewed and creatively recharged, she was bursting to get into the studio. "I found my muse again," she says. "I felt that if I didn't make a record right now, I'd lose it." Not surprisingly, "Day One," released here Sept. 14 on Warner Music Canada's WEA Records, focuses lyrically on her spiritual rebirth. The notion to emphasize rhythmic elements on the albuma departure from her previous piano-based recordingscame to Slean as she was dancing alone one night at the cabin. "I realized the modern music that I like is a symbiosis of bass and drums," she says. "I made a decision to have the piano be mainly my writing tool for this record." Recorded in Toronto and produced by Slean with programmer/bassist Pete Prilesnik and bassist Dan Kurtz of the New Deal, the album includes appearances by guitarist Ian D'Sa of Billy Talent and singer/songwriter Howie Beck. "With this album, Sarah has songs that we can move at radio, but she hasn't dumbed her music down," Warner Music Canada president/CEO Steve Kane says. "She put it into sharper focus." Slean agrees. "With each record I want to do something different," she says. "I realize [the rhythmic direction] may lose me some fans, but I'm not making music to keep fans. I'm making music because I'm inspired by the world, and I have something to say. I hope that's why people are my fansnot because they want me to make the same record over and over." Such AC radio powerhouses as CKFM Toronto and CKOI Montreal quickly embraced the album's lead single, "Lucky Me." "It's an uptempo, fun track," CKFM music director Wayne Webster says. "It is more straightforward than her previous releases." Two years after the 1997 independent release of her limited-issue (1,000 copies) EP "Universe," Slean put out her album "Blue Parade" under a joint-venture deal between Atlantic Records U.S. and Warner Canada. However, Atlantic balked at releasing her next set, "Night Bugs," and Slean parted ways with the company in 2001. Warner Canada released the album in 2002, and it has sold 16,500 units domestically, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In 2003, Slean was named top new artist at the Juno Awards. Last year, Warner Canada signed Slean directly to a worldwide deal, and she linked with Nashville-based Michael Dixon, who has managed Sexsmith for a decade. "We wanted to stay involved with this artist," Kane explains. "We also knew with Michael we'd be working with someone who could take Sarah into new markets." Dixon says Sexsmith's tour has been a great way to introduce Slean to Warner's European affiliates. "After every show we have heard interest from that territory in releasing her album," he says. At this point, "Day One" has been issued only in Canada. Slean, who is booked by the Agency Group, reteams with Sexsmith for 25 Canadian dates starting Oct. 25. _________________________________________________________________ Designer Mail isn't just fun to send, it's fun to receive. Use special stationery, fonts and colors. http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines Start enjoying all the benefits of MSN. Premium right now and get the first two months FREE*. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 07:54:52 -0400 From: "Kelly Goodlad" Subject: RE: Billboard article Very cool article...with one glaring bit of misinformation. Avril Lavigne was named top new artist in 2003...Sarah was nominated & should've won but didn't. Hrm...wonder what the huge emotional crisis was? [rest of message snipped by owner-navy-soup; folks, please don't quote the ENTIRE original message when you reply...] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:27:36 -0400 From: "Rannie Turingan" Subject: Re: RE: Billboard article My guess is her breakup with Luke Doucet??? I saw Luke on Saturday in Hamilton.. and he had played a new song about an ex (most likely Sarah). The song was basically calling her a *itch. Luke apparently played the song her for... and her response was that she had written NONE about him. Grin - -------- Original Message -------- From: "Kelly Goodlad" on Tuesday, October 5, 2004 9:08 am To: navy-soup@smoe.org cc: (bcc: Rannie Turingan/DICO) Subject: RE: Billboard article Very cool article...with one glaring bit of misinformation. Avril Lavigne was named top new artist in 2003...Sarah was nominated & should've won but didn't. Hrm...wonder what the huge emotional crisis was? [rest of message snipped by owner-navy-soup; folks, please don't quote the ENTIRE original message when you reply...] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:40:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Julian C. Dunn" Subject: Re: RE: Billboard article On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Rannie Turingan wrote: > My guess is her breakup with Luke Doucet??? > > I saw Luke on Saturday in Hamilton.. and he had played a new song about > an ex (most likely Sarah). The song was basically calling her a *itch. > > Luke apparently played the song her for... and her response was that > she had written NONE about him. I suppose this is why it's a bad idea to date writers or songwriters. You never know if you might end up in a story or a song. :-) On a related note, Steve Ito and I saw Matt Nathanson last night -- he burned the house down. He had a couple of songs along the same lines ... Charlotte Martin opened but I thought she was mediocre: fantastic voice and piano playing, but her songs were so-so. Plus she had a bit of an annoying pretentious air about her; I don't know if that was an act, but it bugged me :-( - - 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: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:12:29 -0400 From: "James McGarry" Subject: Re: RE: Billboard article - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julian C. Dunn" To: "Navy-Soup" Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:40 AM > I suppose this is why it's a bad idea to date writers or songwriters. You > never know if you might end up in a story or a song. :-) On a related Depends, they might remember you fondly. Red Autumn Fall's Simeon Ross penned "The Star" about Sarah and still sung it quite a while after their breakup. But you're right, long have the tongues of Bards flayed even kings. James. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 11:03:41 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: jessica weiser Subject: Re: RE: Billboard article Aww. Julian I thought you'd like Charlotte. I know her personally and think she's awesome and really sweet. So maybe it was just an act ;) jessica http://www.jessicaweiser.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:57:25 -0400 From: "Kelly Goodlad" Subject: Re: RE: Billboard article >Charlotte Martin opened but I thought she was mediocre: fantastic voice and >piano playing, but her songs were so-so. Plus she had a bit of an annoying >pretentious air about her; I don't know if that was an act, but it bugged >me :-( She doesn't really 'wow' me either. But I think that's just because she's not really my style. I've never been too into Tori and she's very Tori. "Your Armor" is a nice song though. Kelly > >- 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: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:10:42 -0400 From: "Rannie Turingan" Subject: Re: RE: Billboard article I was wanted to go to that show last night, but I was broke. BOOO- URNS I saw Charlotte open for Howie Day last year... too little too late. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 13:38:44 -0600 From: "Katie Belsher" Subject: Macleans Reveiw "...Slean does an average job channelling Tori Amos."... From a reveiw of Day One in Maclean's magazine (September 27th issue)... made me want to scream. i despise it when people directly compare our Ms. Slean with Tori Amos... what, just because she's a woman, and she plays the piano, she's just like Tori Amos? makes me crazy. anyways. the reveiw in Maclean's was heartbreaking, and i wont quote the rest. i've never heard of Charlotte Martin, and have no idea if she's anything like Tori Amos, but the comparison with Sarah Slean makes me totally crazy. anyways. rant rant. i respect and love Sarah for her honesty and her bravery in her music. i care not what the critics say. (well, okay, so somtimes the critics hurt my feelings. :) katie _________________________________________________________________ Take advantage of powerful junk e-mail filters built on patented Microsoft. 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So obviously she's trying to draw comparisons to "that genre" of piano-playing singer-songwriters :-) - - 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: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:37:16 -0700 (PDT) From: wini Subject: Re: RE: Billboard article i wasn't impressed with her either, when i saw her open for sondre lerche this past summer. she definitely sounded like a tori-wannabe. and though i like tori, i like her because she doesn't try to sound like somebody else. i thought her cover of "wild horses" was especially bad. Kelly Goodlad wrote: >Charlotte Martin opened but I thought she was mediocre: fantastic voice and >piano playing, but her songs were so-so. Plus she had a bit of an annoying >pretentious air about her; I don't know if that was an act, but it bugged >me :-( She doesn't really 'wow' me either. But I think that's just because she's not really my style. I've never been too into Tori and she's very Tori. "Your Armor" is a nice song though. Kelly > >- 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 ] Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 00:16:53 -0400 From: "Julian C. Dunn" Subject: Re: RE: Billboard article On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 11:12, James McGarry wrote: > > I suppose this is why it's a bad idea to date writers or songwriters. You > > never know if you might end up in a story or a song. :-) On a related > > Depends, they might remember you fondly. Red Autumn Fall's Simeon Ross > penned "The Star" about Sarah and still sung it quite a while after their > breakup. But you're right, long have the tongues of Bards flayed even kings. I didn't realize the two of them had dated. I certainly don't recall hearing that song (but then again it's been years since Red Autumn Fall was together) Was it not rumoured at one point that Sarah had herself penned Last Year's War in regards to Kevin Fox, who she used to also date? - - 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, 06 Oct 2004 00:18:32 -0400 From: "Julian C. Dunn" Subject: Re: Charlotte Martin (was Re: billboard article) On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 12:03, jessica weiser wrote: > Aww. Julian I thought you'd like Charlotte. > > I know her personally and think she's awesome and really sweet. So > maybe it was just an act ;) It could be. Actually that was a relatively minor point to what I said; I just didn't find her material that enthralling. She probably could have toned down the belting out of notes too, but I will grant her that her voice is fantastic. - - 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 ] ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V7 #77 ******************************