Karine wrote:CarolCiola wrote:Thanks for the source, Karine!
And this a really cool website, I didn't know about this one
It's quite an old one, not updated anymore, but you can find interesting things in it. This example explains why Sarah named her music label "Tyde Music".
If you check Laws of Illusion booklet, you see it above all the songs, except "Bring on the Wonder":
"Published by Tyde Music (SOCAN)". There's also "4237579 Canada Inc (SOCAN)", which is Pierre Marchand's label.
I got The Freedom Sessions last summer, but had never really looked at the Multimedia part, since it looked like it was just low-resolution video clips from FTE Live. I didn't realize there was a section with voice-overs, where she talked about the trip to Cambodia (and Brazil), touring, the making of the record, etc. For some reason, my DVD player in my laptop can't play CDs properly, but can rip them, so I rip them to MP3s immediately and never play the CD again anyway (except maybe in the car).
The "Read Me" docs are pretty funny to read now, about needing Windows 3.1 or higher, and 8M of memory, etc. The other thing is that on my CD, the track names are all shifted upward one name; such that Elsewhere is identified as Multimedia Presentation; Plenty as Elsewhere, etc. Renaming the tracks in the file doesn't overwrite the file name when played, so it very confusing sometimes.
Maybe they did this to get around the problem discussed in the Sea of Waking Dreams piece about the first track not playing in a CD player because it was identified as Track 1, but is the Multimedia presentation, which is actually Track 0. So it looks like Ol 55 isn't there, since there is no file named that, but it is.
There is an extensive set of items such as T-shirts, cassette singles, posters, etc., with US and Canadian prices, and information on the Sarah McLachlan Fan Club, which you could join for $20 a year ($25 Canadian). There's even an order form for merchandise! Wonder if I sent it in, if I would get anything back....
It's interesting to pick on "icons" such as a lizard, compass or tickets to go to other parts of the collection. I guess she was aiming at the gamers already then.
Does anybody know what a "Medusa" T-shirt looked like? It sounds cool.
In some respects, I prefer the way some of the songs were done on this album to how they appeared on the actual FTE album. I think there is a looser, less-polished feel to it that gives it a more spontaneous nature. Particularly the piano solo of Hold On (wait, it says right here it's Good Enough!
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She described the studio, seen in the FTE DVD, as being "like a spaceship", and that it was built as a painter's studio, with floor to ceiling windows and this beautiful view over the valley.
It took a lot of clicking to finally get to the picture. Rather a treasure hunt. That looks like a typical beach anywhere along the coast of B.C., Washington or Oregon, or one of the hundreds of islands.
"I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the Tyde". Now we know!
