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Sarah Slean returns home
New album due out in March
By JASON MACNEIL, SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA


With a recent year spent in Paris and another back studying in Canada, singer Sarah Slean says 2007 has been a terrific year for her musically.

“I had a terrific amazing time with the record which I started in February and it’s finally nearing completion,” she says. “So yeah, it’s been great.”

Slean, performing the first of two “Holiday” shows tonight at Toronto’s Enwave Theatre, will finally release her new album in March, the follow-up to her 2004 effort Day One. She says the record, which she’s debating titling The Baroness, is a more personal affair.

“I feel like it’s so much more honest than any other record that I’ve ever done,” she says. “I feel that the songs are so much more, there’s more truth in them. It’s less adorned than previous albums.”

The singer, 30, had 23 songs to choose from which was later pared down to 18. Now the biggest challenge is paring those 18 down to 12, but Slean says she’ll find a home for all of the tracks.

“There was a lot happening in my life and I was writing a lot when I got back here,” she says. “I think I plan on making a DVD of these songs because there’s so many and having favourites is like having children. So I would like to release that a year down the line.”

One tune that definitely made the cut is Get Home, the album’s first single. A demo version of the song is currently on Slean’s official website.

“That one I had a little piece of it and I would play just a little piece of it in the studio, before we would do a sound check or something else,” she says. “My co-producer would always say, ‘What’s that?’ and I would always go, ‘Oh, it’s not done yet..’ ‘Well then finish it!’ So I finished it.”

As for the new record, Slean says some songs just “refused to open themselves” so she ditched them. A core batch of roughly 15 songs was the result of Slean gaining a lot of creative momentum.

“Some of them just wouldn’t yield,” she says. “We didn’t want to waste too much time on the ones that were being stubborn.”

Perhaps the biggest change Slean seen in her songwriting involves being a little less stubborn herself, realizing when to avoid tinkering with songs.

“I’m kind of learning to get out of my own way which is something that takes a lifetime as an artist,” she says. “It’s a skill that’s so important in making anything meaningful. You just have to get the hell out of your own way and I’m getting better at that with age.”

While Slean looks forward to these Toronto shows, they’re not traditional Christmas concerts saturated with yuletide favorites. In fact, her Orphan Music album featured live recordings she made at the same venue in 2005.

“It’s more like an annual thing I do to say thanks to the core fans that are always on the message boards, always enthusiastic about every single show I do and who have been waiting patiently for this record,” she says. “I’m not really a one-record-a-year kind of gal.”

Slean is spending 2008 touring but a February gig in Winnipeg already has her feeling some butterflies. She’ll perform as the lone soloist backed by a 120-piece choir and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra singing the music of Glenn Buhr. But she says she enjoys the classical realm.

“I always try to keep my foot in that world because I’m really into string arrangements and made great strides in that, in my arrangements compared to when I was 19 or twenty-something.

“Glenn was telling me that all the Canadian composers are going to be at this festival so I might get some more work.”

nice article. thanks for sharing it with us! =)

Thanks for posting this!

Oh, how I wish I could see her in Winnipeg, that's going to be amazing!

Some good info in there.

I don't think we will be looking at a 12 track ablum. It was pointed out to me that iTunes indicates it will be 16 tracks.

DVD talk is nice

Cameron

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Slean is spending 2008 touring but a February gig in Winnipeg already has her feeling some butterflies. She’ll perform as the lone soloist backed by a 120-piece choir and the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra singing the music of Glenn Buhr. But she says she enjoys the classical realm.

We were talking about it at Christmas, but after reading this, it seems likely that she WILL be performing at the same concert as my sister (who performed last year as part of a large choir during the NMF as well). How lovely for her if this is the case, as she's nearly as big a Slean fan as I am! And how lovely for me, as I'll get to see my two favourite Sarahs perform at the same time. :P (If you couldn't tell, that's also my sister's name. Heh.)

oh wow that's really cool if she gets to sing with Sarah Slean!

I also heard from a friend who works at the ROM that Sarah did a fashion photoshoot for FLARE magazine??? I think he said it was in the March issue and said she looked amazing in it.....I've been picking up FLARE and looking for it. If anyone sees it, please let me know asap!!!! I cannot wait for it and the disc to come out!