Personnel: Sarah Brightman (vocals, keyboards); Peter Weihe, Tom Leonhardt (guitar); Thomas Schwarz, Gunther Laudahn (guitar, background vocals); Frank Peterson (keyboards, drums, percussion); Matthais Meissner, Michael Wehr (keyboards); Ben Huellenkremer (bass); Udo Dahmen (drums, percussion); The Sisters Of Oz, The London Community Gospel Choir, The A.L.W. Tour Ensemble (background vocals).
Recorded at Nemo Studios, Hamburg, Germany.
Personnel: Sarah Brightman (vocals, keyboards, background vocals); Thomas Schwarz, Gunther Laudahn (guitar, background vocals); Tom Leonhardt, Peter Weihe (guitar); Frank Peterson (keyboards, drums, percussion, background vocals); Michael Wehr (keyboards, background vocals); Matthias Meissner (keyboards); Udo Dahmen (drums, percussion); A.L.W., London Community Gospel Choir (background vocals).
Arrangers: Matthias Meissner; Frank Peterson ; Michael Wehr; Thomas Schwarz.
Recorded with a large contingency of German musicians, British stage-diva Sarah Brightman's Dive is a loose concept album tied together by a common thread of nautical references. Opening with the short, spoken-word piece that is the title track, there are constant images of the sea throughout the lyrics. The material sounds like what you would expect from Brightman's ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber. It's all fairly pretentious power ballads, but there's no denying that they're melodic. Brightman has a powerful set of pipes and, actually, shows a good deal of restraint. There are several songs that are a cut above like "Captain Nemo" and "Seven Seas." She does go over the top on her cover of Procol Harum's "A Salty Dog," but she redeems herself with the closer, "The Second Element II." The song, a reprise of an earlier track, is a stripped-down, acoustic affair with a subdued vocal by Brightman. ~ Tom Demalon
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