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Building a Mystery
I love you
Sweet Surrender
Adia
Do what you have to do
Witness
Angel
Black and White
Fall of Grace
Last Dance

Sarah McLachlan
Surfacing
Arista (BMG) 0782 218970-2

This is what you call talent - every single song on this disc is written by Sarah. She plays the piano well, she's beautiful and she oozes sensuality. Well is there a setback - yes there sure is - there's just too few songs. I listened to "I love you", "Adia" - have no idea what that means and "Sweet Surrender" and bought the disc - I was even luckier to find that they included a CD single with her 'live' in concert. Sarah has climbed up the local charts - not all the way to the top but close enough for a relative unknown in Asia I must say.

Building a Mystery

you come out at night
that's when the energy comes
and the dark side's light
and the vampires roam
you strut your rasta wear
and your suicide poem
and a cross from a faith
that died before Jesus came
you're building a mystery

She is big and will definitely make an impact on the crowds in Asia if she tours to this area - the magic word here is TOUR, TOUR, TOUR - we want to hear you "live". She is already into her sixth album, which includes Touch, Solace, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, The Freedom Sessions, Rarities B-Sides And Other Stuff, and her current release Surfacing. Well, she is improving as the albums go by, I did not quite like her earlier albums but the last two albums including this one is definitely value for money.

I like the graphics in the sleeve as well - it looks, well, like those giant batik prints, thrown in with some Michelangelo paintings in the background. I wish I can get a shirt in those colours to tell you frankly.


Slick Dawg doesn't know what he wants - he's still searching - he says his answer could be in Antiqua -……… Ya Mann.

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