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Track Listings
| 1. Multimedia Presentation |
| 2. Elsewhere |
| 3. Plenty |
| 4. Mary |
| 5. Good Enough |
| 6. Hold On |
| 7. Ice Cream |
| 8. Ice |
| 9. Ol' 55 |
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The seeds of THE FREEDOM SESSIONS grew out of Sarah McLachlan's highly-acclaimed FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY, the idea behind which was to combine the folky acoustic tendencies of her songwriting with a more produced air. THE FREEDOM SESSIONSfeatures many of the same songs, but in their initial, unadorned stages, reworked with a more earthy feel that returns to the essence of where the material came from.
THE FREEDOM SESSIONS is a collection of evocative folk-rock songs, backed by simple percussion, acoustic guitar and piano, which also spotlights McLachlan's elegant voice. Sweeping and soaring through these soft-yet-vivid songs, she evokes the styles of fellow Canadian, Joni Mitchell. While the material deals with a variety of painful subjects and matters of the heart, McLachlan keeps her emotions in check, getting her point across precisely and clearly. And that is the key to the album's success. During "Hold On", for instance, she sings in aflat, almost dispassionate tone--"...hold on, this is gonnahurt like hell". Inspired by a woman whose fiance was infected with AIDS, McLachlan couldn't make a stronger point if she had screamed the line. On the jazzy "Ice Cream", she reaches out to a broken-hearted lover, comforting him without histrionics. "Your love is better than ice cream", she sings, exhibiting her understated, lighthearted side. Throughout THE FREEDOM SESSIONS, McLachlan coolly and calmly works through the pain.
The seeds of THE FREEDOM SESSIONS grew out of Sarah McLachlan's highly-acclaimed FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY, the idea behind which was to combine the folky acoustic tendencies of her songwriting with a more produced air. THE FREEDOM SESSIONSfeatures many of the same songs, but in their initial, unadorned stages, reworked with a more earthy feel that returns to the essence of where the material came from.
THE FREEDOM SESSIONS is a collection of evocative folk-rock songs, backed by simple percussion, acoustic guitar and piano, which also spotlights McLachlan's elegant voice. Sweeping and soaring through these soft-yet-vivid songs, she evokes the styles of fellow Canadian, Joni Mitchell. While the material deals with a variety of painful subjects and matters of the heart, McLachlan keeps her emotions in check, getting her point across precisely and clearly. And that is the key to the album's success. During "Hold On", for instance, she sings in aflat, almost dispassionate tone--"...hold on, this is gonnahurt like hell". Inspired by a woman whose fiance was infected with AIDS, McLachlan couldn't make a stronger point if she had screamed the line. On the jazzy "Ice Cream", she reaches out to a broken-hearted lover, comforting him without histrionics. "Your love is better than ice cream", she sings, exhibiting her understated, lighthearted side. Throughout THE FREEDOM SESSIONS, McLachlan coolly and calmly works through the pain.
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