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Sarah Brightman -- Harem: a desert fantasy
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The DVD Harem: A Desert Fantasy was released in the USA in
February 2004; other countries followed lated.
The DVD is a mixture of performance footages and other recordings, filmed at
"ancient sites in places such as Morocco and Egypt" and it "takes you on a
journey through the desert fantasies that Sarah Brightman has created with
her latest album" HAREM, as the web site of
Angel Records put it.
The back of the DVD says it like this:
A one-hour soundscape that brings to life all the magic and mystery of the
East through hypnotic rhythms and gorgious epic settings. Filmed at ancient
sites in places such as Morocco and Egypt, this desert fantasy takes the
viewer on a dazzling musical journey of cinematic proportions.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
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New videos of the timeless hits "Time To Say Goodbye" and "Anytime,
Anywhere"
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30-minute "Behind the Scenes" documentary
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Photo gallery
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5.1 surround mix
All in all I found the DVD rather disappointing, actually. The setting is
indeed exotic and nice to see, but often overdone: it is too much, making it
unrealistic. And then of course the songs on the DVD suffer from the same
problems as the songs on the Harem CD: there is far
too much dance beat in the music, drowning all that is nice about Sarah's
singing. Also: the songs "Time to say goodbye" and especially "Nessun dorma"
are out of place in this collection. The first is a solo-version sung in the
Arabic surrounding of the other songs, while "Nessun dorma" is simply taken
from the La Luna concert
video.
Track listing
(Links lead to the lyrics of the songs as they appear on the respective
CDs)
- Harem (Cancoa do Mar)
from: Harem
- Beautiful
from: Harem
- Mysterious days
from: Harem
- Anytime, Anywhere
from: Eden
- It's a beautiful day
from: Harem
- Free
from: Harem
- The war is over
from: Harem
- What you never know
from: Harem
- Stranger in paradise
from: Harem
- Nessun dorma --
(La Luna
concert version)
from: Eden
- What a wonderful world
from: Harem
- The journey home
from: Harem
- Time to say goodbye --
(solo version)
from: Timeless
aka: Time to say goodbye
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created: 11 July 2004
last modified: 11 January 2020