Harem [Single]

Sarah Brightman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 4, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single
• Label: Angel Records
• ASIN: B0000DZTSC
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #303,590 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings

1. Harem (Cançao Do Mar) [Hex Hector Vocal Mix]

2. Harem (Cançao Do Mar) [Robbie Rivera Vocal Mix]

3. Harem (Cançao Do Mar) [Manny Lehman Vocal Mix]

4. It's a Beautiful Day [Remix][*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Welcoming you to Sarah's Harem!, November 23, 2003

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A. Sybo (Ann Arbor, MI, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harem (Audio CD)

These are wonderful remixes. There are 3 remixes of Harem and one of It's a Beautiful Day. These are lots of fun to listen to because they're so different from what Sarah usually does...The track list is this:
1-Hex Hector Vocal Mix (10:02)
2-Robbie Rivera Vocal Mix (6:32)
3-Manny Lehman Vocal Mix (11:05)
4-It's a Beautiful Day remixed by Groove Brothers (3:28)

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Could have been better, but then again...it's remixes, November 4, 2003

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Anthony Morelli "Woofbear" (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harem (Audio CD)

I'm really not crazy about this remix Cd single. First of all, the remix for "It's a beautiful Day" is really bad. The beat is okay, but Sarah's voice is really badly sped up, and it's made her sound like a warbling chipmunk. I don't like the way they edited the vocal parts, but left the instrumentation the same.
The vibrato leaves a lot be desired!

I do like the other remixes, because they are well mixed, and a lot of the original parts of the song have been kept. My favourite of all is track 3, because it's got the most "original" parts from the song. This is the longest remix of Sarah, that I was always able to stand listening to.

Hex Hector remixes pretty well, but I can see a lot of "been there, done that" in his remix. There's not really much "new" sound to his version of this remix. It's colorful, and I can see myself dancing to it, but it's not sensational.

I bought the CD because it's collectible, and it's good to have a healthy collection of remixes of Sarah, as well as other artists.

So, I gave it 4 stars. It's not excellent, but it's worth buying.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars AB-FAB HAREM REMIXES BUT ORIGINAL STILL TOPS!, December 26, 2003

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L. Steidl "Luigi Alberto" (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Harem (Audio CD)

These "Harem" remixes are quite fun - the Hex Hector mix being the finest of the three - all thumping, throbbing house beats with Brightman's crystalline voice sailing above all the insanity. However, like most remixes, these are best experienced on the dance floor or at a bar at 3:00AM when making out with the guy next to you. As a listening experience, Sarah's original album version is still the finest and, at times, even superior in terms of dancing to. As for the "It's A Beautiful Day" remix by the Groove Brothers (?), I find nothing outstanding about it and for the luv of God, what did they do to Sarah's voice? It's been altered & speeded-up to sound like the Munchkinland scene in "The Wizard of Oz". Once again, the album version is superior in both vocal and dance elements. Still recommended as a fun, party disc and remember, the "Harem" remixes were #1 on the Billboard dance charts.