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sari@saribrown.com

If you ever find the opportunity to sit on a tree swing with Sari Brown, it will probably go something like this: you'll kick off the ground and look out over the treetops of a hill descending into the streets of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Sari's beloved hometown. It will be evening and one by one the town lights will flick on through tree branches. There will be some high-pitched laughter in your ear, and a low, rumbling Mahalia Jackson hymn lingering in your head from the ride over. You'll begin to talk about dreams, strange childhood pets, new loves, and anything that strikes you as both meaningful and inexplicable while swinging through the air and feeling very much alive, if a little dizzy. Everywhere there will be brown hair, green leaves, gold rings, purple theories, blue sounds. And in this moment you will have truly met Sari Brown and the Colortones.

However, this hypothetical situation might be a little far fetched, especially given the scarcity of tree swings these days. Thankfully, Sari Brown has produced recordings that do the job just as well viscerally and even better sonically. She joined the Earthwork Music label in 2004 at the age of 17 with the release of her first album, 'For What is the Journey,' a collection of 11 unconventional spirituals. With careful attention to the strange little coincidences that follow us through our lives, which for Sari arrive invariably at the hour of 11:11, she has released her second album of 11 songs on May 11th, 2009, the day after her prophetic 22nd birthday. The new release, 'The Color Suite,' is a concept album that unfolds an 8-month narrative of uncanny symbolic resonance.