Sarah Slean - Flirted With You All My Life (audio)

On June 21st this year Sarah played an intimate house concert for the documentary styled TV show The Neighbors Dog. The audio of Sarah doing a cover of Vic Chesnutt's "Flirted With You All My Life" from the show has now been posted.
 

Every Sunday they air back to back episodes of the new season of shows. They have yet to air Sarah's. Check out their web site for their scheduale and wear to tune in. On Twitter they indicated they soon may have a way to watch the show online. In the mean time, it would be appreciated if anyone can recorde it for us.

http://www.theneighborsdog.tv/X.html

Listen to Land & Sea! (Audio clips)

Ahead of the album release, streaming MP3s are available in Amazon UK digital music store providing 30 second clips of each track of the double album.

You can listen to it here.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Land-Sea/dp/B005P3YLDE

For those that have not pre-ordered autographed copies of Sarah's album through her store, other retailers have the CD listed.  Here are some Canadian shops that should have it on sale on the 27th

amazon.ca - 17.99
Indigo -  20.26 (Could be lowered to 14.99 as shown on in store system)
ScreamingCD - 17.99
CDPlus.com - 16.24
HMV.ca - 24.99

Some of the stores found internationally seem to be releasing the CD on October 4th.
amazon.co.uk amazon.com amazon.de amazon.fr
Deepdicount.com
FindersRecords

It is highly likely that there are far great number of stores both on and offline that will have the album available for sale on the 27th in both physical and digital forms.

Sarah Slean and Jorane Create New Music Together

On April 2nd Sarah Slean and Jorane played together for a CBC special that airs May 10th. Jorane who plays chello toured across Canada sharing headling roles with Sarah in 2005. On the day of this recording Sarah tweeted "Created melancholy music on-the-fly today with the wonderful @Jorane chez Maison Radio-Canada. How I love Montreal..."

The following information comes from CBC's Rendez-Vous who have a video trailer and pictures of the event up. After May 10th they will be adding videos, songs and interviews.

"Sarah Slean and Jorane seem to have a mutual artistic connection. They both create very expressive, evocative and sometimes theatrical songs. So it is no surprise that when we hear them performing together it feels so natural.

For this session, the wonderful Jorane delivers new versions of her songs, accompanied by a string quartet and piano, in arrangements created especially for this recording.

The very talented Sarah Slean was also quite courageous to accept to perform some of Jorane's songs and to go where no other singer has dared gone before! And this is where Sarah Slean's passion for French culture pays off as we hear her sing in French for the first time ever.

Together, Jorane and Sarah create a brand new song, inspired by one of Sarah's personal experiences in Paris. The result is extremely touching.

Let yourself be carried away by this dreamy, friendly, wondrous and luminous Rendez-Vous session.

Check back after 4 p.m. ET on May 10th to enjoy videos, songs and interviews from this episode."

B-Side Project - Vote Reminder

The time to vote on 3 songs you would like to hear on Sarah's upcoming B-side album draws to a close tomorrow.

According to Sarah's Tweets, early results placed Count Me Out in the lead and I Do in the top 10. Songs in the 5th and 6th position are really close to each other in votes.

If the B-Side playlist of videos posted by littleslean is any indication on popularity, here are songs listed with the highest amount of views. The Alphabetical order the playlist was in seems to have had some influence on the view counts.

1. Count Me Out -192
2. Everything By The Gallon - 100
3. I Do - 90
4. Hooligans -87
5. Glenn Gould Song -83
6. My Song - 73
7. Sadie - 69
8. Oh Man! - 58
9. Rock Star - 52

After the 30th these videos will be heading back to the vault.  Remember to make your vote count so you can have a recording your favorite b-side.  Top 3 votes should be submitted to thebaronessinc(AT)gmail.com.

A list of other known b-side titles can be found in our earlier post.

The Sarah Slean B-Side Project! (audio / videos)

If you have been over to SarahSlean.com lately you might have noticed Sarah has announced a b-side project  on recording some of her unrecorded songs.  She has asked for help from her fans to send her three unrecorded songs of hers that you would like to see recorded and made into limited edition 10 track album for this year's Holiday concert.  Lyrics or any live recordings would also be helpful so please submit those to myself or her.  
To help jog your memory and introduce you to some Sarah's unrecorded songs, here is an updated list from Nicole's littleslean.com archives.  With Sarah's permission I have uploaded live audio and video from a few of these songs and linked them below for the duration of this project.

Written pre-2000	2000 - 2003	after 2003
All I Want	Count Me Out	Baroness
Closer	Hooligans	My Song
Close Your Eyes	Everything by the Gallon	The Right Words
Dana's Song	Oh Man!
Elaine
Empty the Cup
Glenn Gould Song
Hey Little Girl
Hunter
I Do
I Fell
I Love his Lower Lip
Memory Don't Fade
Ogoni Star
Rock Star
Sadie
Seven Tornadoes
Soldiers
Song for Jeff

Submission of requests must be sent to thebaronessinc(AT)gmail.com before October 30th.  If you want to know when this page has been update, please be sure to follow littleslean news via e-mail subscription, twitter and other syndication options shown in the right side panel.  Thank you!

Sarah Slean playing Angel with Moxy Früvous (Audio)

A decade old recording of Sarah Slean playing her song Angel with Moxy Früvous providing the groove has been posted on the Internet Music Live Archive.  The song is from her album Universe and is rarely played live especially with a band.

The recording is from February 21st 1999 at Lee's Palace. The second track on the embedded player contains Sarah's comical introduction to the stage by Moxy Früvous around the 3 minute mark. A reference is made to Kevin who might be referring to Kevin Fox. The full Moxy Früvous concert and all the details can be found here.

Sarah Slean Rootstock concert Online (audio)

CBC has now put up their recording of Sarah Slean, Joel Plaskett, Steven Page and Hawksley Workmen from their Rootstock concert. The show was recorded one month ago. According to post on Twitter, Sarah and Joel are currently in the studio this week following Sarah's marathon this weekend. Sarah is very familiar with the other artists sharing the stage with her. Hawksley Workman produced her album Night Bugs. Sarah and Steven Page will be doing an encore of their Art of Time Ensemble tribute to the Beatles Abbey Road album on October 21st.

You can play the entire show or pick individual songs here:
http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/cod/concerts/20100827roots

A mp3 of the show will likely also be made available from CBC Radio 2 podcast.

New Concert for Stream (audio)

Sarah Slean played a private gala concert for the volunteers of the Regina Folk Festival on December 5th. Sarah had played the festival back in 2007 and 2005. The show was under pretty tight wraps but you can hear every track and see pictures on CBC's recent Concert on Demand! Alternative links to the files can be found here.

The recording is very unique as it's a rare solo show that features new covers and new arrangements including songs like So Many Miles and Leonard Cohen's Suzzane.

Also on CBC Concert's on Demand is the recording of Sarah and the Art of Time Ensemble playing the Abbey Road concert.

Update: 2010-2-20

This concert will be played live on CBC 2 This Monday.

"Monday, February 22, 2010

concert 1: Sarah Slean
recorded at the CBC Regina Galleria
Sarah Slean is one of Canada's great creative visionaries. She's been nominated for two Juno awards and two Gemini awards and is a true Renaissance woman in her artistic expression. Trained as a classical pianist, Sarah's performances continue to be informed by that musical sensibility, especially in her collaborations with many of Canada's finest classical orchestras and ensembles. A gifted songwriter, Sarah is also a poet, and books of her poetry have even accompanied album releases. She's also a visual artist. Given her diverse forms of creative expression, it's not surprising her list of influences is equally eclectic including Glenn Gould, Tom Waits, PJ Harvey and even Irving Berlin. This private concert was put together by the Regina Folk Festival as a special thank you to their volunteers in celebration of the organization's 40th anniversary."

Sarah Slean - I Am A Child (audio)

The Neil Young Tribute Show that took place last week at Massey Hall has already been put online on CBC. Sarah played Neil's song, I am a Child. You can listen to the track over here:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/media/20090610young/19.asx

The show will also air on CBC radio on the following dates according to their twitter page:

"Neil Young Massey Hall tribute concert will air on Canada Live in 2 parts on Mondays: June 26 + July 6"

Please note, I haven't been able to find a site page yet on the CBC that offers that link. I just located it running a search on the CBC site. Changing the 19 to a different number changes the track and the word 'all' plays the entire concert.

Canada Reads, it's on.

News of Sarah on Canada Reads has spread far and wide. She is defending Mercy Among the Children.

Sarah posted on the topic on a CBC forum under the username Sleanstress. Included in her post were quotes from Martin Luther King Jr..
Read it here.

Today, CBC also made available a reading Sarah did from the book. You can download it from their podcast or stream it here.

Keep your ears on CBC radio this week for more of Sarah from Canada reads.

Listen to Sarah Play on CBC Q (MP3)

To hear today's broadcast of Sarah on CBC's Q you can pick up their podcast (mono mp3).

Sarah opened the show playing Get Home followed by a short interview regards to the song and the album title. They came back to Sarah later in the show where she played No Place at All. To close the show they returned to Sarah and she played Looking for Someone. All songs were played on an in studio grand piano.

In the closing statement they mentioned the Canadian tour will start in May.

Hear the New Album now - Flare.com

As posted on Sarah's homepage, Flare.com has the new Sarah Slean up in it's entirety in streaming format.

Give your first listen to The Baroness here:
http://www.flare.com/celebrity/article.jsp?content=20080226_155305_7096

MTV.ca might be 'dropping' the album tomorrow afternoon according to their schedule.

In anticipation of the album release Sarah was on both MTV's E2 this week and E -Talk daily doing interviews on the set of the video for Get Home. A clip of the video was shown over the end credits of E-Talk.