No Promises

Carla Bruni - No Promises

No Promises
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Artist: Carla Bruni
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
Music Label: Downtown
Soundtracks:
  1. Those Dancing Days Are Gone
  2. Before the World Was Made
  3. Lady Weeping at the Crossroads
  4. I Felt My Life with Both My Hands
  5. Promises Like Pie-Crust
  6. Autumn
  7. If You Were Coming in the Fall
  8. I Went to Heaven
  9. Afternoon
  10. Ballade at Thirty-Five
  11. At Last the Secret Is Out

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Free Music Review: Mais oui, c'ets horrible
Hit: 1 Stars

OK, so she has taken poems by some of the greatest English poets and writers and shows some taste in literature but not in music. This is horrific: it even has a gy from that horrible french group Telephone on it. Avoid! It is the pretentious production of somebody with too much time and money.

No Promises Poster

"Come, let me sing into your ear," purrs Carla Bruni to open her second album, her French/Italian heritage betrayed in a pan-European accent that's as breathy and relaxing as a summer afternoon nap on the Riviera. Though the prospect of a former supermodel's career exploits is sometimes prettier than others (depends if you prefer the Project Runway pronouncements of Heidi Klum or the talk show/tabloid antics of Tyra Banks), Carla Bruni approaches music armed with something of a legitimate pedigree, both her parents having been musicians in their own right. Calling the album No Promises may reflect some intentional lowering of expectations for Bruni's experiment here, setting 11 reverently-chosen lyric poems by the likes of Emily Dickenson, W.B. Yeats, and Dorothy Parker to her own mellow, wispy music and pleasant voice. Where artists like Feist or Keren Ann use spare instrumentation and airy vocals to achieve delicacy and nuance, the compositions on No Promises seem to run together without much to distinguish one from another, and the result is neither offensive nor particularly inspirational. Maybe next time Carla Bruni will inject a little more fire into her belly and add some sparkle to her hushed soundscape. --Ben Heege
Italian-born/French-raised chanteuse Bruni has written a poignant record establishing her as an undeniably gorgeous new voice to American ears. With two previous records, heralded in her home of Europe, Bruni's current creation is her first English language album to hit US shores via Downtown records. Carla's fascination and appreciation of the language prompted her to make an album comprised of her favorite poems (from Emily Dickinson to WH Auden to William Butler Yeats), interpreting them into delicate and introspective songs. Profound, potent, and imbued with a delicate beauty.
The second album of French/Italian model-cum-chanteuse. Two years in the making, No Promises is a unique and personal interpretation of some of the greatest poets of the American and British traditions, including texts by Emily Dickenson and W. B. Yeats. Naive. 2007.
2007 Release from the French Singer, Coming Four Years after "Quelqu'un M'a Dit". Bruni Drew Inspriation for the Songs from English Literature, Particularly with the Works of Emily Dickinson, William B Yeats, Wystan Hugh Auden and Walter De La Mare. She Delivers a Heartfelt and Personal Interpretation of These 11 Poems of Romanticism and Melancholia.

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