Sarah McLachlan - Mirrorball

Starring: Ashwin Sood, Sarah McLachlan Director: Sophie Muller Original UK Premiere: 1999 Dvd Release: 20th March, 2000 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Sarah Ann McLachlan is a Canadian musician, singer & songwriter. She is widely recognized for founding Lilith Fair, a tour which showcased female musicians in the late 1990s. Sarah McLachlan was born & adopted in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As a child, she took voice lessons, along with studies in classical piano & guitar. When she was just 17 years old, she fronted a new wave band, October Game. Her high school yearbook claimed that she was destined to become a famous rock star. In 1988, she was the first artist signed by the independent Canadian record label Nettwerk. She was signed before she had penned a single song. The signing prompted McLachlan to move to Vancouver, British Columbia. There she recorded the first of her albums, Touch, in 1988, which received both critical & commercial success & included the hit song Vox. Her 1991 album, Solace, was her mainstream breakthrough in Canada, spawning the hit singles The Path of Thorns & Into the Fire. 1993 s Fumbling Towards Ecstasy was an immediate smash hit in Canada.

DVD Extras: With 23 featured songs, Mirrorball on video adds nine tracks not heard on the CD. The audio mixing is generally excellent, providing some hall ambience but retaining a front-array, proscenium placement to instruments. Shot on film, rather than videotape, the concert preserves the stunning, subtle lighting effects of McLachlan's touring production, albeit at slight visual sacrifice in lower-light segments in which the resolution is grainier.

This video companion to the Canadian singer-songwriters triumphant live album confirms in sight what that recording advanced in sound, Sarah McLachlan & her fine, flexible stage band have evolved into a superb live performing unit, breathing added fire & nuance into McLachlan songs that were already stunning in their original studio versions. Always a strong, charismatic singer, McLachlan now conjures a rare balance of delicacy & power, measured here in performances of signature songs that add a new, more muscular edge matching her bands rock firepower. Thus, Possession expands beyond its already sensual promise to touch on truly erotic abandon, while Building a Mystery focuses its portrait of a narcissistic poseur with a harder edge & a newly amended, adult lyric thats entirely appropriate.

Shot on McLachlans 1998 headlining tour, the concert captures her in a more theatrical & frankly glamorous vein than her fabled Lilith Fair shows: in her floor-length blue gown, sparkling blue mascara, & bare feet, she evokes a more demure, Gen-X cousin to Cabarets Sally Bowles.

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