Editing Sarah Slean (section)

==Career==
===Major recordings===
Slean recorded her first EP ''[[Universe (Sarah Slean EP)|Universe]]'' (1997) at the age of nineteen. It was followed by ''[[Blue Parade]]'' in 1998.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20010719224341/http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2001/07/1701.cfm "CD Reviews: The Beta Band, Default, Toploader and many more"]}}. ''Chart Attack'', July 17, 2001</ref> ''Night Bugs'' was her first major label album, co-produced by Slean and [[Hawksley Workman]], and released by [[Warner Music Group|WEA]] in Canada and [[Atlantic Records]] in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sarahslean.com/music/discography/cd/nightBugs.aspx |title=Night Bugs |work=Official Community of Sarah Slean |access-date=23 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602000212/http://www.sarahslean.com/music/discography/cd/nightBugs.aspx |archive-date=2 June 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> It was heavily inspired by [[cabaret]] music. Slean composed all the string and horn arrangements for these albums - by hand in traditional notation.

[[File:Sarah Slean - 2005 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Slean in 2005]]
On 28 September 2004, Slean released her fourth album, ''[[Day One (Sarah Slean album)|Day One]]''. Here Slean's piano takes a less important spot for the first time in her career. The focus is more on beats, rhythms and guitar, which is evident in the album's first single, "[[Lucky Me (Sarah Slean song)|Lucky Me]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sarahslean.com/music/discography/cd/dayOne.aspx |title=Day One |work=Official Community of Sarah Slean |access-date=23 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602053911/http://www.sarahslean.com/music/discography/cd/dayOne.aspx |archive-date=2 June 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The up-tempo title track "Day One", and "Mary", a song about Slean's grandmother, were released as the second and third singles. Slean was first introduced to VS orchestral libraries and MIDI sequencing on this album, and composed all the orchestral accompaniments.

[[File:Sarah Slean - Myer Horowitz - close-up.jpg|thumb|Sarah Slean performing in Edmonton, Alberta in 2006]]
In October 2006, Slean released a mostly-live album, ''[[Orphan Music]]'', which consists of songs recorded live at Toronto's Harbourfront Theatre and the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Other new tracks featuring Slean and the piano were recorded at DNA Recording Facility in Toronto and Kensaltown Studios in the UK.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sarahslean.com/music/discography/cd/orphanMusic.aspx |title=Orphan Music |work=Official Community of Sarah Slean |access-date=23 May 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080602053917/http://www.sarahslean.com/music/discography/cd/orphanMusic.aspx |archive-date=2 June 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

On 13 December 2007, Slean's website underwent a massive overhaul in preparation for her newest studio album, entitled ''[[The Baroness (album)|The Baroness]]''. Visitors to the new site were invited to sign up for Slean's new mailing list, and in doing so would be able to download a demo version of her newest single, "Get Home". People who pre-ordered the new album from the new website's store also received a download to the non-album track "Parasol". ''[[The Baroness (album)|The Baroness]]'' was released on 11 March 2008. The [[iTunes]] version of the album included two additional non-album tracks, "The Rose" and "The Lonely Side of the Moon." In September 2008, Slean announced her intention to release the non-album tracks from ''The Baroness'' as an [[Extended play|EP]]. Both Parasol and Modern Man have been confirmed by Slean in Question and Answer sessions in her official website. On 13 November 2008, the official Sarahslean.com newsletter announced the title for the EP to be ''[[The Baroness Redecorates]]''. A full track list was also provided.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sarahslean.com/news/default.aspx#fb221b8d-d7b8-4094-8e8d-291002eac162:1101 |title=Sarah Releases a New EP just in Time for the Holidays! |work=The Official Community of Sarah Slean |access-date=13 November 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080918034601/http://www.sarahslean.com/news/default.aspx#fb221b8d-d7b8-4094-8e8d-291002eac162:1101 |archive-date=18 September 2008 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>

Slean released her fifth studio album, a double album entitled ''[[Land & Sea (album)|Land & Sea]]'', on 27 September 2011.<ref>{{cite web |title=Land & Sea – Pre-Order |url=http://sarahslean.com/music/solo/26-land-sea-pre-order |publisher=SarahSlean.com |access-date=17 September 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927042051/http://www.sarahslean.com/music/solo/26-land-sea-pre-order |archive-date=27 September 2011 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> As previously with ''[[Beauty Lives]]'', a 100 special handcrafted editions were sold of the album. ''Land & Sea'' is also Slean's first record to be released on vinyl. Sarah composed the orchestral arrangements for three songs and her mentor Jonathan Goldsmith arranged three others .

[[File:Sarah Slean at BSOMF.jpg|thumb|right|Slean performing at the 2012 [[Burlington's Sound of Music Festival]]]]
Slean's studio album ''Metaphysics'' was released in April 2017. A pre-order campaign for the album was held on [[PledgeMusic]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/sarahslean |title=New Album "Metaphysics" |work=PledgeMusic |access-date=10 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127093518/http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/sarahslean |archive-date=27 November 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Other music work===
In 2006, she contributed two covers ("Us and Them" and "Comfortably Numb") to ''[[Pink Floyd Redux]]'', a modern 12-track tribute to Pink Floyd.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://canada.mymusic.com/product.asp?curr=1&myptr=canada&muzenbr=100276016 |title=CD Details |work=canada.mymusic.com |access-date=23 May 2008}}</ref>

Another notable cover in Slean's repertoire is her down-tempo rendition of [[Our Lady Peace]]'s guitar-driven song "Julia". Our Lady Peace has performed Slean's "piano" version of their song in their own concerts. Vocalist [[Raine Maida]] explained the origins of the piano version: "We’re gonna do a song from our first record now, that was given to us on a cassette tape, a very different version, from a girl named Sarah Slean from Toronto..."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Sarah-Slean-Biography/F3D5383DF190C64C48256E5C002AF1D6 |title=Sarah Slean Biography |work=Sing365.com |access-date=23 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531014041/http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Sarah-Slean-Biography/F3D5383DF190C64C48256E5C002AF1D6 |archive-date=31 May 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Slean was also featured on the [[Fox TV]] network as the pianist in Sunrise, the fictional town where bodies started piling up in ''[[Murder in Small Town X]]'', a short-lived reality TV series.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Murder In Small Town X (TV Mini Series 2001) - Cast Credits |url=https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0288379/fullcredits/cast?ref_=m_ttfc_3 |access-date=2023-03-28 |website=IMDB}}</ref>

In October 2008, Slean performed at the first annual [[Canwest Cabaret Festival]] in Toronto. Slean performed sets of her own music accompanied by bassist [[Joe Phillips (musician)|Joe Phillips]] and drummer [[Mark Mariash]], and also contributed to multi-artist "songbook" performances of the songs of [[Leonard Cohen]] and [[Kurt Weill]].

In March 2009, Slean took part in the [[Juno Award|Juno]] Songwriter's Circle in Vancouver, alongside fellow songwriters [[Jim Cuddy]], Jacob Hoggard (of [[Hedley (band)|Hedley]]), [[Doc Walker]], [[Buffy Saint-Marie]], Vancouver upstart [[Ndidi Onukwulu]], and [[Hawksley Workman]], who hosted. She played two songs from ''The Baroness'', "Notes from the Underground" and "Looking for Someone".

In 2009 she took part in an interactive documentary series called [[City Sonic]]. The series, which featured 20 Toronto artists, had her talk about performing at [[the Rivoli]] while attending the [[University of Toronto]].

On 18 April 2011, Slean chose a song called "New Pair of Eyes" from ''Land'', to be included on the compilation album ''Songs of Love for Japan''. She described the song as an "ode to the shocking wonder of existence". ''Songs of Love for Japan'' was available for only 3 days, with all proceeds going toward relief efforts in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March 2011.