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Sarah McLachlan: Touch

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Arista Records
Released: 1989
Time:
 47:21
Category: Folk, Celtic
Producer(s): Greg Reely
Rating: ***....... (3/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.sarahmclachlan.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2000.09.27
Price in €: 6,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Out of the Shadows (Sarah McLachlan) - 4:57
[2] Vox (Sarah McLachlan) - 4:48
[3] Strange World (Sarah McLachlan) - 4:05
[4] Trust (Sarah McLachlan) - 4:45
[5] Tough (Sarah McLachlan) - 3:11
[6] Steaming (Sarah McLachlan & Darren Phillips) - 4:46
[7] Sad Clown (Sarah McLachlan) - 4:28
[8] Uphill Battle (Sarah McLachlan & Darren Phillips) - 4:37
[9] Ben's Song (Sarah McLachlan) - 4:55
[10] Vox [Extended Version] (Sarah McLachlan) - 6:49

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


SARAH MCLACHLAN - Vocals, Piano, Keyboards, Electric- 12 String- & Classical-Guitar, Cover Design, Photo Tinting

ROSS HALES - Drums
DAVE KERSHAW - Bass, Background Vocals, Double Bass
JEFF KRÖSSE - Bass, Background Vocals
SHERRI LEIGH - Percussion, Drums
NAOMI MCLEOD - Background Vocals
STEPHEN NIKLEVA - Electric Guitar
DARREN PHILLIPS - Percussion, Drums, Keyboards
GREG REELY - Drums, Engineer, Mixing
TIPPI, STEVE, Rudy - Percussion

GARY WRIGHT - Engineer, Mixing
CHRISTOPHER SHAW - Assistant Engineer
ANTHONY VALCIC - Editing, Pre-Production
GEORGE MANIATIS - Editing
BRAD HODSON - Cover Photo
HAD TINTING - Cover Design

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


Folk fürs Volk: Seit Tracy Chapman im Sommer 1988 die Londoner Wembley-Arena in einen intimen Club verwandelte, ist sie die ungekrönte Klampfen-Königin. Doch die Konkurrenz wächst. Nach Michelle Shocked, Melissa Etheridge und Edie Brickell tritt nun eine weitere zartbesaitete Dame ins Rampenlicht: Sarah McLachlan. Die 21jährige Fee aus dem kanadischen Halifax siedelt ihr erstes Album "Touch" in der Tradition von Gruppen wie Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span oder Clannad an - doch was sie aus diesen Einflüssen macht, berührt. Ihre Eltern erkannten Sarahs Talent schon früh und verordneten dem Mädchen Klavierstunden, Gitarrenunterricht und Stimmbandtraining. Als die 17jährige dann aber ins Popgeschäft einsteigen wollte, versuchten Vater und Mutter, diesen Schritt mit allen Mitteln zu verhindern. Gott sei dank hat sich Sarah McLachlan durchgesetzt: Auf "Touch" findet sich Lyrisch-Versponnenes wie der "Ben's Song" neben der traumhaft melodischen Ballade "Trust", und auch ein vergleichsweise rockiges Stück wie "Vox" wird dank der Feinarbeit eines siebenköpfigen Begleitensembles und Sarahs emo- tionsgeladener Stimme zum sinnlich-romantischen Ohrenschmaus. Die Klang- qualität ist durchweg erste Wahl und unterstreicht den Gesamteindruck edlen Kunsthandwerks mit feinziselierten 12-String-Gitarren, rollendem Baß und effektvoller Perkussion. Wer sehnsüchtig auf neue Werke von Kate Bush, All About Eve oder Clannad wartet, kann sich mit Sarah McLachlan trösten: Die Kanadierin beherrscht die Klaviatur der leisen Laute.

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On her debut effort, McLachlan sets the stage for future greatness. While only in her early twenties, she shows insights beyond her years with highly personal and introspective lyrics.

Chris Woodstra, All-Music Guide



Nova Scotia-born singer/songwriter Sarah McLachlan was only 20 years old when Touch was released in 1988. This is an impressive first effort, though maybe too earnest in its attempt to break new ground in otherwise familiar terrain of late-'80s synthesized textures. Yet McLachlan's pristine vocals and intricate guitar work yield several memorable tracks, including the opening "Out of the Shadows," the popular "Vox" (which also appears in a tripped-out--verging on hokey--remixed version at the end), and the enchanting "Strange World." Her youthful romanticism is perhaps captured best in "Trust" ("Somewhere deep inside me I hold a picture / Of a time long gone--a time of ease and / Simple pleasures..."), a catchy tune that is embellished with male vocals, sparkling keyboards, bongos, and distant electric-guitar licks. Later tracks become more endearing with each listen but in certain moods can be nauseatingly dreamy and vaporous. Nevertheless, this disc endures as a fine remembrance of the early days, when McLachlan was a fresh-eyed mystic songbird whose passions were not yet realized on an international scale.

Rebecca Robinson, Amazon.com



One of the most shining new stars in the night sky of her native Canada, hailed as one of the brightest jewels in Nettwerk Records' tiara, Sarah McLachlan's name has been heard more and more frequently as one of the most exciting and influential new voices in music today. And oh, what a voice. Although any attempt to describe a female singer immediately triggers comparisons to legions of other women vocalists that often actually share few qualities other than gender, such similies break down completely when one attempts to describe the clear, high, pearly smoothness of McLachlan's unmistakably breathtaking vocal gymnastics; one really must experience the musical lushness and cathedral-like splendor of this record. While much of the musical backdrop is reminiscent of the broad, colorful swashes of Roxy Music and steals paints from the palette of Peter Gabriel, the main axis of comparison would have to be the fabulous diva voices such as Kate Bush or Liz Fraser, particularly on "Steaming," "Uphill Battle" or the Cocteau-esque title track, where McLachlan's voice sails to stratospheric heights.

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OUT OF THE SHADOWS

Crouching down inside a deep ravine
Those angry cries pass quickly by, he can't be seen
So many ways spent hiding in so many undone plans
Forgetting what it's like to fight when no one understands
Close call there in the shadows
There's a fear in the dark
There's one out there
All those memories, pain and anger, flood back one by one
They must be just around the bend, they always come
At night as I lay sleeping they come to me in herds
Their lies remain, the dreams the same, it's only fleeting words
No one calls there in the shadows
There's no end to the dark
But there's one out there, no one but me....
The hours pass so slowly, the life's slipping out of me
No way's the right way. Is there a way out for me?
My life's slipping out...
Rising up, the night is done, and now the bright lights come
Held back in my pitied world where everything's undone
A cold wind blows right through me, I'm made a hollow shell
There's nothing left, just ash remains, enrich the soil, no soil, no oil...
Close call there in the shadows
There's an end to the dark
'Cause there's someone out there
Someone like me...
The hours pass so slowly, the life's slipping out of me
No way's the right way, is there a way out for me
The hours pass so slowly
The life's slipping out of me
Is there a way out for me?
The hours pass so slowly
The life's slipping out of me
Is there a way out for me?
There must be a way out for me.


VOX

In the desert of my dreams I saw you there And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare
But your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed
And the pain that's in your truth's deceiving me, has got me scared
Oh why?
Through your eyes the strains of battle like a brooding storm
Your up and down these pristine velvet walls like focus never forms
My walls are getting wider and my eyes are drawn astray
I see you now a vague deception of a dying day
Oh why?
I fall into the water and once more I turn to you
and the crowds were standing staring faceless cutting off my view to you
They start to limply flail their bodies in a twisted mime
And I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined
You're gone and I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined
Oh why?


STRANGE WORLD

We walk without a sound across a barren landscape
Your eyes are twisted down to a dew entrailed ground
We watch the stars as they slowly fade away
And in the clearing sky I see
The cold stone face of morning setting in on me
It's a strange world
It's a very strange world that leaves me
Holding on to nothing when there's nothing left to lose
Your touch is cold and damp, the devil's in your eyes
I wonder why I always let you lead me on this way
'Cause you see only what you want to see
You feel only what you want to
And I am on the outside of your strange world
It's a strange world
It's a very strange world that leaves me
Holding on to nothing when there's nothing left to lose
We're walking hand in hand, we'll walk this way forever
Our eyes have risen to the water's edge watching with the tides
The stars have fallen to another day and the sun warms our path to
Find the reasons leave us far behind in our strange world
It's a strange world
It's a very strange world that leaves me
Holding on to nothing when there's nothing left to lose.


TRUST

Somewhere deep inside me
I hold a picture of a time long gone
A time of ease and simple pleasures
And days in shadows not so long
Now with my mind I'm struggling
Holding on to what I believe
Listen to the fragments of my thoughts
That leave me broken and deceived
'Cause I don't know the way
He said "I can take you there,
I can show you places where our time has had no ware
And as we walked the plains
The skies they opened wide
Revealing all the shame for what's been lost inside us all


CHORUS

It's a day in the life
In my mind I've seen it all
Sometime soon for all to see
The walls are slowly breaking down
In my mind I've seen it all
And someday we'll be free
We're searching for a message
Or so I thought but so it seems
The ignorance in the myths of others
Is easier to redeem
I've never questioned the answers given
To find the faith that's been lost within
'Cause where I lay my trust in others
Where it lies the ground is thin
'Cause I don't know the way
He said "I can take you there,
I can show you places where our time has had no ware
And as we walked the plains
The skies they opened wide
Revealing all the shame for what's been lost inside us all


CHORUS

CHORUS

I know you say you love me
If what you say is true
So show me something that's not deceiving
'Cause I wouldn't lie to you.


CHORUS


TOUCH

Instrumental


STEAMING

You're always waiting on the tide
It's time you decide
I've walked down long roads that seem to have no end at all
You never wanted time to end
To let my life offend
It's time to realize what hides deep inside your holy eyes
Hold on tight, hold on fast
This ain't the kind that always lasts
If you want me to go just ask me to go, I'll go
All the way my love, over the hills and right on through you
Run away my love, over the hills and right on through you
Over the hills and right on through you
Lying awake in these restless dreams
Life's never what it seems
I've always tried to read your eyes
To get inside that scornful mind
Hold on tight, hold on fast
This ain't the kind that always lasts
If you want me to go just ask me to go, I'll go
All the way my love, over the hills and right on through you
Run away my love, over the hills and right on through you
Over the hills and right on through you
I was with you on that pallet steaming
Spinning 'round in circles dreaming
I was with you on that pallet steaming
Running 'round in circles screaming...
All the way my love, over the hills and right on through you...
Run away my love, over the hills and right on through
All the way my love, over the hills and right on through you...
Run away my love, over the hills and right on through.


SAD CLOWN

A time so haunting moonlight in the mist
Lay me down Beside you oh as long as it lasts
From the river comes a Figure drifting slowly by
Trailing long the water, leaving softer than a sigh
Softer than a sigh
All the feelings they remain like a still life
A dying swan song forever lost your cries of glory
The rain is falling down like silence in a shroud
When All that really matters left to lose
I'm all alone
I'm all alone
All the feelings they remain like a still life
A dying swan song forever lost your cries of glory
Walking from the shadows, a fear of sadness grows
Your heart is in your hand your knowing looks
Our Time is gone
My time is gone
Swan's dying song.


UPHILL BATTLE

Instrumental


BEN'S SONG

On the hills of fire the darkest hour
I was dreaming of my true love's pyre
Who will bring a light to stoke the fire
Fear not for you're still breathing
On a winter's day
I saw the life blood drained away
A cold wind blows on a windless day
Hear the cry for new life the morning's flame
You were the brightest light that burned too soon in vain
Who will bring you back from where there's no return
Fear not for you're just dreaming
On a winter's day
I saw the life blood drained away
A cold wind blows on a windless day.


VOX (Extended Version)

In the desert of my dreams I saw you there And I'm walking towards the water steaming body cold and bare
But your words cut loose the fire and you left my soul to bleed
And the pain that's in your truth's deceiving me, has got me scared
Oh why?
Through your eyes the strains of battle like a brooding storm
Your up and down these pristine velvet walls like focus never forms
My walls are getting wider and my eyes are drawn astray
I see you now a vague deception of a dying day
Oh why?
I fall into the water and once more I turn to you
and the crowds were standing staring faceless cutting off my view to you
They start to limply flail their bodies in a twisted mime
And I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined
You're gone and I'm lost inside this tangled web in which I'm lain entwined
Oh why?

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