“It is amazing to hear Sarah McLachlan’s voice again. There is a purity to her magic as it’s from a heart that is wide open and bare in its naked emotion. The melodies are addictive, the lyrics personal to each and everyone, and the delivery is both spine chilling and uplifting. The airwaves sincerely need her energy. There will be many tears shed, many in happiness, when these songs get released. The first track will go public one month from now.”

Oh my God, one month from now. I hope you’re all as excited as I am! (oh of course you are…). Also, Sarah appeared on stage in Vancouver this week as part of the True Colors tour stop there, which I will be covering later today (busy working, I’m sorry about that).

PS: If you’re looking for the Solace rarities that were posted a couple of weeks ago, you might wanna check the message boards

enjoy your day of wonderful Sarah news,
Witchy

[...]The trajectory of Sarah McLachlan’s broad popular success outside Canada began with the late-1993 release of her third album, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, [...] Fumbling Towards Ecstasy – The Home Video [...]. The momentum carried over to a third project in early 1995, The Freedom Sessions [...]
Now, FUMBLING TOWARDS ECSTASY: LEGACY EDITION brings these three releases together into one 2-CD+DVD package for the first time, with bonus material on each disc that makes it a must-have for true McLachlan fans. Fifteen years after the first recordings that began this arc, the deluxe three-disc edition will arrive in stores August 5th on Arista/Legacy.

Now we can only wonder what the “bonus material” will be… But calling it a “must-have” surely makes me think that it could be something that really makes it worth buying (unlike, let’s say, Rarities 2?).

In other site news, I just added a section to the site that has been about 1 1/2 years in the making. It could’ve just taken a couple of months too as board administrator K finished the project quickly (long live K!) but since this was part of a huge to-do list for the site and because I’m a bloody lazy admin, it took me quite a long time as you can see to include it in the site (yes, I do deserve punishment for that).

So here it is, a year-by-year retrospective of Sarah’s involvement in charitable causes.

It may need some tweaking here and there and I’ll try and add 2007 as soon as possible but it’s already worth taking a look at (and then resting quietly in awe because Sarah has managed to pile up a pretty long list of charity work).

Have a nice one and check back next week for some new Sarah rarities from Jeff!

“ps- chills at hearing new Sarah McLachlan songs”
source: June 16th blog entry

AHHH???!!! WTF?! New material? New album? I think I’m having a mild heart attack.

Jeff also sent me the following picture of the entire Touch band in rehearsal:

You can join us at the message boards to discuss the songs and maybe also share some lyrics suggestions so that we can add them to our song database.

Enjoy the songs and thanks again to Jeff for giving us the chance to!

I’ll be back with more rare songs next week. Until then, enjoy these and don’t forget to post your thoughts on them either here or on Sarahboards.com

Jeff is willing to answer any questions regarding the songs he recorded with Sarah or co-wrote (Captive, Temptation, Trust) so now I’m asking you to drop me a mail with your questions, I’ll post his answers with the next update (in return, if you happen to have some boots lying around from ‘88 to ‘91 for him, drop him a note on his myspace).

I absolutely love the Captive demo and I’m getting sadder as we speak that the song was never released…thanks a million times to Jeff Sawatzky for giving us the opportunity to hear these songs!

Anyways, don’t forget to check back for Jeff’s answers and even more rare Sarah songs and other stuff (yes, there’s more and yes, you’ll love it!).

Love,
Witchy

Anyhow, once I start with the gossip I suppose that I should post this link too then, which indicates that Sarah and Ash have split. I’ll just leave it like that because honestly, I don’t really have anything to say about that, it’s sure as hell none of my business.

And now I feel ashamed for even mentioning these things there…

Nevermind though, I still managed to scrape together this month’s desktop calendar, to your left! Click here for the wallpaper version, as always. I’m not sure I like it since I was trying to go down nostalgia lane with all that FTE re-release talk but it didn’t really work out the way I wanted it.

Also, there’s a new poll for those of you who have bought Rarities 2 since the last poll on the album indicated that most of you will buy the album no matter what. And if you’re interested, the last poll on FTE showed that most of you would only welcome a re-release if it includes some fancy extras.

Enjoy and have a wonderful day!

Enjoy!

Rollingstone’s review of Coachella’s second day included the following (cute) Sarah mention:

As though Creep had taken too much out of him, Prince slipped offstage long enough for one of his backup singers to perform a stirring version of Sarah McLachlan’s “In the Arms of an Angel” that left some attendees teary-eyed.

Too bad not even a music editor can get the name of the song right.

And if you’re interested, I also added a review of Rarities 2 to our articles archive here.