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Harem

Album profile: Harem

Listening to HAREM, it's hard to believe that multifarious pop diva Sarah Brightman first came to fame as a proponent of musical theatre (not counting her early stint with dance-pop group Hot Gossip). After going through a number of stylistic shifts over the years, she has arrived at an unusual point where her sound evokes a strange confluence of Charlotte Church, Enya, and Madonna. Given the "Arabian Nights" sub-theme of the album, you might even throw in a little "Desert Rose"-era Sting as well. HAREM veers between ethereal, almost New Age-like moments, operatic flurries, percolating dance beats, and some accessible Eastern-flavoured exoticism. Through it all, Brightman's Broadway past occasionally pops up, as on her orchestra-accompanied version of the standard "Stranger in Paradise", which is itself based on a classical theme. In fact, the orchestra pops up throughout the album, playing arrangements by former Killing Joke member Jaz Coleman, who's surely ventured as far afield from his origins by this point as Ms. Brightman.
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Release info :
Artist : Brightman, Sarah
Released : 29/09/2003
Label : Liberty (1)|EMI Catalogue
Genre : Easy Listening
Catalogue no : 5576370
Available format : CD
Track listing :
1 : Harem 9 : Mysterious days
2 : Gueri de toi 10 : Free
3 : Until the end of time 11 : Journey home
4 : Stranger in paradise 12 : What you never know
5 : Arabian nights 13 : It's a beautiful day
6 : Beautiful 14 : What a wonderful world
7 : Misere mei 15 : Harem (cancao do mar)
8 : War is over now
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