Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
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| Fumbling Towards Ecstasy | ||
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| Studio album by Sarah McLachlan | ||
| Released | 1993 | |
| Recorded | 1993 | |
| Genre | Singer-songwriter | |
| Label | Nettwerk/Arista | |
| Producer(s) | Pierre Marchand | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| Sarah McLachlan chronology | ||
| Live EP (1992) |
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (1993) |
The Freedom Sessions (1994) |
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy is a 1993 album by Sarah McLachlan. It was produced by Pierre Marchand in Montreal, and released on October 22, 1993.
The album was an immediate hit in Canada, where McLachlan was already an established star. Over the next two years, it became her breakthrough album internationally as well. However, in some countries, most notably the United States, the album was a steady seller that stayed in the middle ranges of the pop charts for almost two years, rather than the #1 smash that McLachlan would achieve with 1997's Surfacing.
"Possession", the album's first single, is written from the point of view of an obsessed fan who wrote letters to McLachlan over a period of several years. Following the album's release, the fan, Uwe Vandrei, sued McLachlan for songwriting credit, although he committed suicide in 1994 before the case went to trial.
Some editions contain an album version of McLachlan's 1995 single used for The Brothers McMullen soundtrack, "I Will Remember You". The track's lyrics do not appear in the booklet, nor strangely does the track's crediting information.
[edit] Track listing
All songs written by Sarah McLachlan, except "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" written by McLachlan and Marchand, and "Possession", of which the lyrics may have been influenced by the letters of Uwe Vandrei.
- "Possession" – 4:39
- "Wait" – 4:09
- "Plenty" – 4:05
- "Good Enough" – 5:03
- "Mary" – 3:55
- "Elsewhere" – 4:44
- "Circle" – 3:43
- "Ice" – 3:54
- "Hold On" – 4:09
- "Ice Cream" – 2:44
- "Fear" – 3:59
- "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy" – 9:49 (including several minutes of silence followed by a hidden track, a solo piano version of "Possession")
- "Blue" (Japan bonus track)
[edit] Musicians
- Sarah McLachlan: Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Piano
- Bill Dillon: Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Guitorgan, Bass, Piano
- Pierre Marchand: Bass, Piano, Keyboards, Fake B-3 Organ, Drum Machine, Percussion Machine, 808, Shaker, Found Sound
- Brian Minato: Bass
- David Kershaw: Hammond Organ
- Jane Scarpantoni: Cello
- Michel Dubeau: Saxophone
- Ashwin Sood: Drums, Percussion
- Jerry Marotta: Drums, Percussion
- Lou Shefano: Drums
- Guy Nadon: Drums
