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Artist: Keren AnnEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Running Time: 43 unknown-units
Published: 2007-05-08
CD Release Date: 2007-05-08
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- It's All a Lie
- Lay Your Head Down
- In Your Back
- The Harder Ships of the World
- It Ain't No Crime
- Where No Endings End
- Liberty
- Between the Flatland and the Caspian Sea
- Caspia
Free Music Notes for Keren Ann
Free Music Review: Subtly beautiful.
Hit: 4 Stars
Critically-acclaimed singer / songwriter Keren Ann Zeidel returns with her fifth album. Often favourably compared to Françoise Hardy, Nico, Serge Gainsbourg, Mazzy Star, Rufus Wainright and Suzanne Vega, Keren Ann is a truly special and engaging artist, one whose work evolves and grows, often with every listen.
"Keren Ann" is the follow up to 2004's Nolita, which was greeted with rave reviews around the globe proclaiming Keren Ann's voice "as alluring as that of Astrid Gilberto and with an emotional languor that would have done Chet Baker proud".
The new self-titled album has been produced by Keren Ann and mixed by Joe Barresi (Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Alanis Morissette).
I was a little nervous about this new one, since Nolita was not an excellent album in my opinion.
Pretty much immediately after starting it, the new album sounded so stunningly beautiful and different.
It was like a city of ice slowly melting as the sun sinks sending rays of warming glow over the ice melting it filling the land with sparkles. So that was a little ridiculous for a comparison beteen the new album and the previous, but it is so clean and twinkly, the sound is crystalline even.
Her vocals are nearly whispery soft, parts of the album are nearly spoken because of her delicate voice. Even though they are so light and airy, and there is something so aged and sexy about it. Without a doubt, they are the focus of the album.
The instrumentation is merely there to compliment the mood of her voice, it's so wonderfully melded together. There are actually many instruments being used, but so softly it gives a dream like illusion to the music.
Most of the self-produced tracks burns slowly, but intricate details add sparkle: Hand claps open "Lay Your Head Down", and tinkling piano closes "In Your Back".
Towards the end she even utilized a choir without having it be overpowering to her dainty songs. The only song that nearly fell out of this mood was the fifth song "It Ain't No Crime", which features a crunchy guitar sound, and it is somehow subtilely forceful but still quite jewel toned.
The album is entirely in English which is rather different for Keren Ann, but I hope it gains her a wider audience for she surely is talented and has a lot to offer if only people were willing to listen
Highlights include also "Lay Your Head Down", which is propelled by handclaps, harmonica, and a mix of strings
Don't miss Keren Ann on tour later on this year.
Keren Ann Poster
5th studio album from Keren Ann (author, composer, singer) Album produced by Keren Ann, mixed by Joe Barresi (Queens of The Stone Age, Alanis Morissette, Tool). emi. 2007.The fifth album from the Paris-and-New-York-based chanteuse is mesmerizing and beautiful all the way through. Unlike with, say, Mazzy Star or even Feist, Keren Ann shows that she can rise above the slyly sensual signing style to deliver actual croons. From the deliberately breathless vocal delivery to her own smartly minimalist and subtly layered production work, Keren Ann is the singer's finest work to date. Her voice remains the focal point, but intriguing instrumental choices dot the album, from the twisted, distorted guitars on "It Ain't No Crime" to the lovely flutes of "Harder Ships of the World." Just listen to the slowly-percolating "Lay Your Head Down," the album's first single. That song begins as an addictive combination of sparse guitar, hand claps, and crooning to gently accrue bluesy harmonica and guitar licks before drifting away in a layered wash of strings and Carl Orff-ish vocal flourishes. It sounds modern and from the more rarefied aspects of pop's past at the same time. You watch: Keren Ann just may prove to be Blue Note's smartest signing since that Norah Jones person. --Mike McGonigal
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