Maria (album)

Maria is a 1995 critically acclaimed album by Canadian singer and songwriter Jane Siberry. It was her first album not to include any musical contributions from longtime collaborators such as Ken Myhr, John Switzer and Rebecca Jenkins.

Maria
Studio album by
Jane Siberry
Released1995
RecordedSeptember 1994 – April 1995 at Reaction Studios, Toronto
GenreAdult alternative, jazz
Length66:56
LabelReprise
ProducerJane Siberry
Jane Siberry chronology
When I Was a Boy
(1993)		 Maria
(1995)		 Teenager
(1996)

Information

The album ends with "Oh My My," a 20 minute-plus ode that gathers the themes from the entire album. Rolling Stone wrote: "[I]n this heap of Siberjazz you realize that everything that has arisen on Maria has indeed converged and that you've actually been led on an unforgettable walk in a garden facing fall with a tour guide who's sure-footed in her wobbly pace. Awesome."[1]

Maria was her last major label album. In 1996, Siberry started her own independent record label, Sheeba Records, and has released all of her subsequent recordings on that imprint.

Reception
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Rolling Stone[1]
David Gérard[2]
Allmusic [3]

Rolling Stone wrote about Maria: "[H]ot damn, the girl's back in the driver's seat with Maria...This is vintage Siberry: scissor-kicking around the soul's messiest spots in search of anything hinting toward redemption... That's exactly what this album's about: the pull of life. Not specifically the good or the bad or the ugly but just the pull and the subsequent release"[1]

Track listing

All songs by Siberry, except "Would You Go?" by Siberry and Tim Ray.

  1. "Maria" (4:25)
  2. "See the Child" (6:24)
  3. "Honey Bee" (4:17)
  4. "Caravan" (7:30)
  5. "Lovin' Cup" (3:39)
  6. "Begat Begat" (6:33)
  7. "Goodbye Sweet Pumpkinhead" (4:35)
  8. "Would You Go?" (7:20)
  9. "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (1:58)
  10. "Oh My My" (20:15)

Personnel

with

and

  • David Travers-Smith - recording engineer
  • Jeff Elliot - assistant engineer
  • Ormond Jobim - co-engineer
  • Michael Brooke - mixes
  • Gregory Calbi - mastering
  • Frank Ockenfels 3 - colour photos
  • Trevor Hughes - studio photos
  • Say-Lay-Pho - artwork design
  • Wyatt Mitchell - design co-ordination

References
  1. Dean, Chuck (21 September 1995). "Maria review". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
  2. "Jane Siberry: Maria". Archived from the original on 2006-12-06. Retrieved 2006-11-11.
  3. Mason, Stewart (n.d.). "AllMusic review: Jane Siberry Maria". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 9 April 2019.
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