Sara Thomsen"Sara Thomsen has created a recording that is subtly captivating and seductive in its fragility. 'Everything Changes' is a personal record that magnetically pulls you in. Some artists write big, bold anthems that can overwhelm a listener. This record quietly beckons," writes John Ziegler in the Duluth News Tribune review of the album. "Enter this world to find a woman daring to go into those vulnerable, dark places that we all like to keep hidden. Thomsen does it with courage, eloquence and dignity, while translating the contents of her soul into musical form. She infuses these songs with the same unostentatious love and warmth that she generates in live performances."
Twin Ports singer-songwriter Sara Thomsen's new release, Everything Changes (2008), is an intimate portrayal of the heart breaking open and apart, tumbling through transformation with elegance and grace. The album modulates from joy to despair, crusty to tender, illustrated with a delightful variety of musical styles. Peppering an acoustic folk base are hints of jazz, country, latin groove, celtic and bluegrass. Sara and her acoustic guitar will be joined by most of the musicians who recorded on the album, including her Three Altos camaradas, Amy Bernstein and Paula Pedersen. Sara's sensuous voice and penetrating lyrics cut through to the heart and soul of human experience, transporting the listener to a place within that says: sit down, listen, relax, laugh, cry, dance and remember.
Thomsen became familiar with "Todo Cambia," the title track (Spanish for "everything changes"), during her travels in Mexico and South America. Written by Chilean Julio Numhauser, it was made popular by Argentine singer Mercedes Sosa. "To me this song is hope distilled," says Thomsen. "It has carried me through the upheaval of difficult personal change and on a social- political level it gives me comfort and courage in the face of dismal and disheartening world affairs. Things will move, everything changes."
"A Woman's Place," commissioned for Women's Month at the College of St. Benedict (St. Joseph, MN), tackles an expansive subject with shimmering lyrics and latin rhythms that beg for dancing feet. "I Remember These" is a poignant collection of childhood memories and a tribute to Sara's lefse making and poetry writing grandmother, who nurtured Sara's first creative love of drawing and painting pictures. Produced by Thomsen and co-produced and engineered by Eric Swanson at Sacred Heart Music Studio in Duluth, Minnesota, Everything Changes is Thomsen's fourth solo album.
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