Sarah McLachlan - Mirrorball

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This video companion to the Canadian singer-songwriter’s triumphant live album confirms in sight what that recording advanced in sound–Sarah McLachlan and her fine, flexible stage band have evolved into a superb live performing unit, breathing added fire and 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 and power, measured here in performances of signature songs that add a new, more muscular edge matching her band’s 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 and a newly amended, R-rated lyric that’s entirely appropriate.
Shot on McLachlan’s 1998 headlining tour, the concert captures her in a more theatrical and frankly glamorous (if slightly funky) vein than her fabled Lilith Fair shows: in her floor-length blue gown, sparkling blue mascara, and bare feet, she evokes a more demure, Gen-X cousin to Cabaret’s Sally Bowles. With 23 featured songs, Mirrorball on video adds 9 tracks not heard on the CD. The audio mixing is generally excellent, especially on the DVD version, which provides some hall ambience but retains 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. –Sam Sutherland

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1) Building A Mystery
2) Plenty
3) Hold On
4) Good Enough
5) Do What You Have To Do
6) Witness
7) Wait
8) I Will Remember You
9) Ice
10) I Love You
11) I Will Not Forget You
12) Path Of Thorns
13) Mary
14) Adia
15) Fear
16) Elsewhere
17) Vox
18) Into The Fire
19) Possession
20) Ice Cream
21) Sweet Surrender
22) Fumbling Toward Ecstacy
23) Angel