A Collection 1984 1989 Music Cd

Jane Siberry - A Collection 1984 1989

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A Collection 1984-1989      Artist : Jane Siberry      List Price : $10.98 USD        Your Price : $15.99 USD      ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1995-03-07      Studio : Import [Generic]      Label : Import [Generic]      Avg. Customer Rating : (4 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for A Collection 1984 1989      Poetry in motion      Rating:      The Siberry Collection contains tracks from this Canadian artist's earliest albums No Borders Here, The Walking, The Speckless Sky and Bound By The Beauty. I Muse Aloud is a bubbly mid-tempo song, The Waitress is a short pop ditty and Mimi On The Beach is a longer, wonderfully descriptive excursion. You Don't Need, a sad song of lost love, concludes the tracks from No Borders Here. It is a pity that the tuneful Follow Me was omitted. One More Colour is a prime example of her melodic and poetic mastery, an expansive ballad with heavenly vocals and lovely imagery. Seven Steps To The Wall is a long ballad with tempo variation and beautiful vocal arrangements while Map Of The World is an impressive fast ballad with a slow build, galloping rhythm and oneiric quality. The wonderfully evocative The Life Is The Red Wagon is followed by Miss Punta Blanca, a delicate, almost whispered song. This great collection concludes with Siberry's spectacularly uplifting Bound By The Beauty, a joyous song with a lilting rhythm and soaring vocals. I miss the songs Follow Me, Vladimir Vladimir and Hockey on this compilation but it really is worth one's while to acquire the aforementioned solo albums as they're all masterpieces that reveal more of the talent of this gifted singer and composer.     Customer Reviews for A Collection 1984 1989 Cd      The "Canadian Kate Bush"?      Rating:      I'm reading all sorts of things to describe this lady's music, one of which is the most meaningless term to ever be applied to music--"alternative". The term had its genesis in the college radio market and took in so many different sounds that it became a generic accolade. If you didn't listen to some artist peers called "alternative", you had no taste--period. But U2 were once known as alternative. Hard-Prog band Dream Theater were called alternative. The leader of "X" once defined the difference between alternative and punk as "about ten years". But listen to Siberry's music as defined here and you find a very versatile artist in this woman who clearly never aimed at the Whitney Houston fanbase. "Map Of the World" is clearly semi-prog that's a cross between Laurie Anderson and the Collins-period Genesis. "The Walking" starts out an introspective if overly mellow piano ballad--but just when you're about to write it off as ear candy, a powerful rhythm section of drums and treble boosted bass kicks in, giving the song a flavor of North African funk like Paul Simon's "Boy In the Bubble" without even changing the tempo, the introspective feel of the lyrics or Siberry's heartfelt vocal delivery. I think the real reason Siberry never exactly became a household name was that you couldn't pigeonhole her. The pop market can't stand that--they suggest the term "wierdo" without really saying it. Well, I've got dozens of records by Siberry and other "wierdos" like her. Versatility like hers may be called "inconsisitency" by people with hair-trigger boredom reflexes, but I prefer to call it "interesting". Editorial Reviews for A Collection 1984 1989 Audio Cd      Album Description      Special low price compilation originally released in 1994 for the avant garde Canadian singer/songwriter. Duke Street Records. 14 tracks.