Sarah Morrau - Here's To Life

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 41:42
Size: 95.5 MB
Styles: Jazz vocals
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:53] 1. Pure Imgination
[3:29] 2. Woodstock
[2:49] 3. I Think It's Going To Rain Today
[3:21] 4. Still Time
[5:56] 5. Vincent
[4:38] 6. Those Were The Days
[2:20] 7. On The Sunny Side Of The Street
[4:07] 8. I'll Catch The Sun
[3:17] 9. Away
[3:21] 10. Go Light Your World
[4:27] 11. Here's To Life

Fargo singer-songwriter Sarah Morrau recorded her third CD, "Here's To Life," at Raptor Studios throughout 2008, releasing it just in time for the holiday season. Her previous two releases, "Storm Warning" (1997) and "To Hold You" (1999) were both recorded at Raptor Studios and produced by Mike Coates. Sarah's regional fans have been waiting a long time for another collection of Sarah's trademark warm and intimate vocals, exquisite acoustic arrangements and appealing mix of cover tunes and originals.

Sarah writes in her liner notes, "'Here's to Life' is a mixture of songs that I've grown up with, songs of nostalgia, and songs about moving forward. They are about the inevitable passage of time, but ultimately about hope. Even the sadder songs have an element of hope. We can at times be moved to tears by music but also moved to smiling, dancing and remembering. In this CD, there is acknowledgement of the pain and changes of life, but also encouragement that we still have what's ahead of us and that, to me, is hopeful."

Here's To Life

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Sarah Morrau - To Hold You

Styles: Vocal Jazz
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 42:10
Size: 96,5 MB
Art: Front

(4:52)  1. Autumn Leaves
(2:41)  2. Skylark
(3:21)  3. Voices
(4:51)  4. Both Sides Now
(4:49)  5. Summertime
(4:07)  6. They Can't Take That Away From Me
(3:31)  7. Hold You
(3:35)  8. Suzanne
(3:57)  9. Smile
(2:29) 10. Nobody Knows You (When You're Down And Out)
(3:51) 11. Song Of Bernadette

Some local artists have released new CDs that might be worth a look especially if you're in a quiet mood...captured by local singer/songwriter Sarah Morrau on her new release, ...To Hold You.

Singing both old standards like "Autumn Leaves" and "They Can't Take That Away from Me," and her own compositions, Morrau often sounds like a hybrid of Connie Evingson and Beth Nielsen Chapman, with a little Lisa Loeb (minus the whininess) thrown in.

Morrau's two original compositions on the CD, "Voices" and the title track, are among its prettiest. The latter, particularly, is heartfelt without being schmaltzy in the least (it's particularly reminiscent of Chapman).

[Sarah's] CD, produced here by Barking Dog Records [sic  recorded and co-produced by Mike Coates at Raptor Studios] prove talent runs deep and wide in Fargo-Moorhead.

 ~Tom Pantera  http://www.barkingdogrecords.com/sar.press.html

To Hold You

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