Here Not There is the second full length studio album

Studio album

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 by singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Jane Child

Jane Child

Jane Child is a Canadian dance-pop singer, producer and musician.-Career:The daughter of Ricky Hyslop, Child joined Canadian Opera Company's children's chorus in her youth....

. It was released in 1993 on Warner Bros. Records (see 1993 in music

1993 in music

This is a summary of significant events in music in 1993.-January–February:*January 8 – The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February 1992....

). Due to a strange single choice (the label opted for the title track instead of "Do Whatcha Do", which would have been in keeping with her style established on Don't Wanna Fall In Love

Don't Wanna Fall in Love

"Don't Wanna Fall in Love" is a 1990 hit song for Toronto-born singer/songwriter/musician Jane Child. Released as the second single from her self-titled debut album, the single went to number two for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in late April and early May 1990, kept out of...

, her hit from 4 years previously), it was less successful. It also saw her undergoing a stylistic change; while her debut was mostly synthesized dance-pop with R&B undercurrents, "Here Not There" saw her edging away and mixing New Jack Swing

New jack swing

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 rhythms with almost hard rock

Hard rock

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 elements. The year prior to the release of the album, she contributed the song "Mona Lisa Smiles" to the movie Freejack

Freejack

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, which starred Emilio Estevez

Emilio Estevez

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.

The album is notable in that it featured an outside writer in the form of Ricky Hyslop

Ricky Hyslop

Ricky Hyslop was a Canadian violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger. He was commissioned to write worksby the Buffalo Philharmonic , clarinetist Avrahm Galper , and guitarist Gregory Alliston...

, her father; he wrote two tracks on the album ("Monument" and "Step Out Of Time"). This is something she did not do on her previous disc; she wrote all the songs then.

Reception

allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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 gave the album 2 stars of 5, calling it "a more ambitious affair than her debut", but also said that she "did not write songs that could have elaborated her ideas".

Track listing

All songs written by Jane Child, except where noted.

1. "Mona Lisa Smiles" 5:03
2. "Do Whatcha Do" 5:16
3. "Monument" (Hyslop) 5:09
4. "All I Do" 5:54
5. "SSHHH" 4:52
6. "Perfect Love" 6:09
7. "I Do Not Feel As You Do" 4;29
8. "Heavy Smile" 5:14
9. "Calling" 5:23
10. "Step Out Of Time" (Hyslop) 5;13
11. "Sarasvati" 7:58
12. "Here Not There" 3:38

Personnel

• Jane Child: Vocals, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Synthesized Bass, Hammond Organ, Programming, String Arrangements
• James Harrah: Guitars, Bass, Programming
• Bryan Hyslop: Guitars
• Ricky Hyslop
  Ricky Hyslop
  Ricky Hyslop was a Canadian violinist, conductor, composer, and arranger. He was commissioned to write worksby the Buffalo Philharmonic , clarinetist Avrahm Galper , and guitarist Gregory Alliston...
  
  : Guitars, Backing Vocals
• Aaron Gross: Percussion
• Tal Bergman: Drums, Percussion

Production

• Arranged By Jane Child & James Harrah
• Produced By Jane Child
• Recorded & Engineered By Paul Arnold, Jon Baker, Greg Droman & Michael Scott
• Mixed By Chris Lord-Alge
  Chris Lord-Alge
  Chris Lord-Alge is a mixer who has worked on various albums. He is the brother of Tom Lord-Alge, another audio engineer. Chris Lord-Alge is known for his extreme use of dynamic range compression in both hardware and software plug-in versions....
  
  
• Mix Assistants: Paul Lani, Talley Sherwood
• Mastering: Stephen Marcussen & Jamie Seyberth