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[elizalavelle]

So the Sarah Slean album Orphan Music has been released :) It's fabulous! I went out yesterday to pick it up after work with Tashia (who mainly came along to see if I'd totally freak out when I saw my photos somewhere in the album art work lol.) I picked up my copy in HMV and was saddened to see it wasn't on the new release shelf... hello we're in Canada, let's promote some CANADIAN musicians.... ones who aren't Avril Lavigne. Anyways, I got the album, opened it as Tash was buying whatever CD she got, and had some in store squeeing when I saw one of my pictures is on the cover of the cd booklet! I was beyond thrilled! I still am! I figured the pictures of mine that were used would be tucked away inside. Joy! Joy! Joy!

(pictures of the album art at the end of this post)

The album itself is wonderful. One of the songs (When Another Midnight from the Harboufront shows) didn't make it on here but SO much other stuff did. On the way home I was listening to it and could not stop smiling. The live version of The Score gave me giggles on the streetcar (just the beginning part of it... it's all in the cackle!) I also loved the little bits of dialoge which were left in there from the shows. I was also so glad that not only did we get the live Blue Spruce stuff (amazing!) but we also have strings verisons of Weight, Pilgrim and Lucky me(!) from the DNA studio. And two new to me songs: Wilderness and Little London Night. What struck me the most is here one can directly hear the comparison between studio Slean and live Slean. Now you can tell what a treat it is to see her live! She just shines on a stage. Oh and at the Harbourfront recordings I can so hear Neal a few times lol, that's so fun!

Now onto the pic spam




The album cover (photo by Jarita)


The CD insert cover (photo by me)


Pages 1 & 2 (prize winning photo by Jarita, artwork by Tarik Mikou)


Pages 3 & 4 (photo by me)


Pages 5 & 6 (photo by Simon Jourdan)


and for fun some pictures of this tree I saw last night as I was walking home with Little London Night playing. I couldn't get exactly what I saw due to a lot of wind and just these things not translating as well as I'd like them to... but it just looked like the tree was glowing with the streetlight shining in the middle of it:

Comments

[gonnashine.livejournal.com]

Yayyyy!!!! I didn't realize that they used 2 of your pictures in the cd art! :)

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

I love that I reply to you and apparently make my own comment below... yay LJ, anyways this one was for you:

Hehe I didn't believe it until I saw it :) Warner said it was 2 in their contract but I still thought perhaps it was a typo lol. Jarita has two as well :) go TO Passioneers ;)

[willow-kat.livejournal.com]

That's so awesome!
and... at first, I thought the tree was on fire. Oops?

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

The tree almost looked like it was burning, and then the wind would change and it would look totally gold, very pretty last night :)

[vintagejoy.livejournal.com]

Oooh exciting! And your photos are just gorgeous!

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much, there are some that are more fabulous ones from that same show in NYC. If you look at www.sarahslean.com and in the pictures section there are some taken by Patti and hers are some of my most favourite Slean shots ever :)

[metal2000.livejournal.com]

That's so awesome that your photos got in there and your name was printed in a Sarah Slean CD!!! I've had my name in the Thank-You's of a few CDs done locally (as well as The Duke, one of my favourite musicians), but to have your name in a Slean CD is just ridiculously cool.

The CD is also very enjoyable from a listening perspective. It'll take some time for this version of "Weight" to grow on me (my favourite version was the one she performed live on the Sympatico Juno series a few years back) but the instrumentation is phenomenal on the new studio stuff, and she really does shine on the live stuff!

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

I'm over the moon excited about seeing my name in the CD :) Being credited wasn't in my contract so I wasn't sure if they were going to credit or not and thus wasn't counting on it entirely, heck I wasn't sure it wasn't all a big mistake until I opened the album lol.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

Congrats! And wonderful pictures!

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

Thank you muchly :)