{"id":14734,"date":"2017-10-04T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=14734"},"modified":"2017-10-02T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T20:19:00","slug":"sarah-slean-looks-at-creative-process-marketing-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2017\/10\/04\/sarah-slean-looks-at-creative-process-marketing-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Slean looks at creative process, marketing process"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian musician Sarah Slean says that downtime helps her realize what she really wants to be doing. And she\u2019s clearly taking some downtime: her 11th album, Metaphysics<\/i>, came out this April, more than five years after her last album.<\/p>\n

\u201cI bought a farm and decided I was going to attempt something that was not transient, because that\u2019s kind of what I was doing for 20 years and I needed to stop moving,\u201d she says. \u201cI literally and figuratively put down some roots and let seasons pass, but I got restless at the end of two years. I guess the seeds I planted started to sprout and I had to act on that, and that\u2019s how the album came to be\u2014the songs grew into something that needed my attention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her voice says it all; Slean\u2019s passion and energy beg for an outlet. She says that she\u2019s been like this since her very first album, and she can\u2019t imagine living any other way.<\/p>\n

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Since her last album, Sarah Slean has bought a farm and tried living a new lifestyle (photo by David Leyes).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAnyone who\u2019s doing anything even mildly unconventional has looked over the fence at structure and stability and had that feeling of envy, but it goes both ways,\u201d she says. \u201cI think I know this about myself\u2014I\u2019m restless and I constantly need to make things. I\u2019m a creative spirit; I need to generate. So I\u2019ve got to be doing that, and, yes, it\u2019s heavy lifting. You\u2019ve got to give birth to worlds over and over again. Every album takes a piece of me, there\u2019s no question; my family and friends know that.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Slean plays in town this month, she will have with her a number of new string players. The orchestra has played a big part in her musical career; strings appear prominently on her new album. She says that she\u2019s always excited about the prospect of a new show.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I get asked to sing Joni Mitchell with the Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra, I\u2019m freaking out,\u201d she admits. \u201cBut I\u2019m as excited to play with 20 new string players in a beautiful hall in Victoria, because for me it\u2019s always about the actual music. What is written and what gets played, when we are performing and when the music is unfolding in the present moment, it\u2019s utterly beautiful. That\u2019s why we still do it, even though this industry can break down the strongest among us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Music has always been the most important part of Slean\u2019s career, and it\u2019s the part she wants everyone to take away from her performances. She says that as she grows older she\u2019s been able to distance herself from her physical image, and no longer has to lean on the crutch of sex appeal to promote herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019re in your 20s, that is absolutely, 100 percent, front and centre,\u201d she says. \u201cWhether they say so explicitly or not, that is part of your marketing campaign. You are a young, nubile ing\u00e9nue and the girls want to be you and the guys want to fuck you and that\u2019s how they market you. I feel like if I had been given the opportunity I would have completely omitted my face, my body, everything to do with that, from the marketing of my music. There are women now that are turning it on its head, there are gay artists that are turning it on its head, I feel like more than ever the way that you sell your music, you get to define the terms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sarah Slean
\n7 pm Thursday, October 5
\n$20-$24, Alix Goolden Hall
\nvcm.bc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canadian musician Sarah Slean says that downtime helps her realize what she really wants to be doing. And she\u2019s clearly taking some downtime: her 11th album, Metaphysics, came out this April, more than five years after her last album. \u201cI bought a farm and decided I was going to attempt something that was not transient, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-october-4-2017"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14737,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14734\/revisions\/14737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}