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rocknroll_n_blues_queensSARAH MACDOUGALL - 'EMPIRE' OFFICIAL
SARAH MACDOUGALL - We Are Fire
Sarah MacDougall - It's A Storm
Swedish-born, Whitehorse-based singer-songwriter Sarah MacDougall creates big sonic landscapes for intimate stories
SARAH MACDOUGALL - We Are Fire
Sarah MacDougall - It's A Storm
Swedish-born, Whitehorse-based singer-songwriter Sarah MacDougall creates big sonic landscapes for intimate stories
Prior to working on her fourth record, All the Hours I Have Left to Tell You Anything, Sarah MacDougall took a helicopter ride over Atlin, B.C., a mountainous community not far from the Swedish-born musician’s adopted home of Whitehorse.
Being a singer-songwriter, she was keen on somehow reflecting the sensation in her songs.
“I wanted to capture something that sounded like a big landscape,” she says. “I was looking out at the mountains and was like: ‘OK, I’d like to somehow capture this feeling that I have right now.’ ”
But even as the music pushed outward towards giant skies and mountainous vistas, the lyrics were intimate, exploring big themes of death, birth and love through personal stories about the passing of her grandparents, the birth of a niece and a break-up.
The affectionate, wisdom-instilling lullaby Asleep Little Queen was written for her newborn niece. The soaring opening track, Empire, was written not long after the death of her grandfather in London, Ont.MORE
