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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
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Sophie Muller |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 January, 1999 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Bmg/Arista |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color |
| TYPE: | Music Video - Pop/Rock |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 078221574099 |
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Customer Reviews of Sarah McLachlan - Mirrorball
Perfection After falling in love with Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, then receiving a DVD player for Christmas, I took the predictable step of buying this DVD. At just under 2 hours long it represents good value for money (9 tracks more than the equivalent CD release, plus an interview & extra features). The interview is pretty good, about 20 minutes or half an hour long. Check out the 'wacky' camera-work though.
But the concert itself is truly astounding. Sarah has always ensured her music is recorded to the utmost quality, with superb performance and production throughout, and this DVD is precisely the same. From the opening titles it is apparent that the emphasis is on clarity of vision and perfection of sound.
But it doesn't end there. I was astounded by the quality of Sarah's live singing voice - she's amazing! Not only that but her skills as a guitarist and piano player are superb too. She holds centre stage with great confidence, giving a solid performance of the highest quality, conversing with the audience and clearly enjoying herself.
I'd even applaud the running order of the tracks here: Last Dance sets the scene perfectly and leads into a glorious rendition of Building a Mystery - you get a great rush of excitement as the concert begins. Similarly, the first encore ends with a powerful majestic rendition of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, a superb climax to the show, leaving room for a final (and quite gorgeous) recital of Angel, just Sarah and the piano, to round things off.
This has to be one of the finest concert videos (or DVD's) out there. Just sublime.
what do you expect?
A very simple review then, for those (like me) who may be new to music video DVDs and are wondering what to expect from this DVD, since I wasn't very sure myself before viewing this disc. This is not a compilation of MTV-style music videos of Sarah's songs. The videos are filmed recordings of her performance before a live audience. The camera work is much like that which you'd expect to see on a giant screen at a concert (e.g. wide angle pan shots interspersed with close-ups on Sarah and the band members). There aren't any special effects applied directly to the film during the songs, but the stage-lighting effects are nice and combine well with some of the theatrical shots on Sarah. Since these aren't videos shot in a studio, there aren't any sharp close-up shots (where their faces fill the screen). As for content, I found this disc enchanting. The whole band puts on a captivating show. It's nice to hear Sarah introducing some of the songs with her feelings on the title, too. These people make beautiful music.
Too flashy
Not only is this DVD concert far too flashy for me, Sarah also performs far too many songs from Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (do we really need to hear Mary or Ice?) and not enough from the wonderful Solace. If you want to see a less flashy video concert even though Sarah still performs too-few Solace songs, buy Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, Live.
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