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Nolita (CD)

By: Keren Ann (Artist)

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Keren Ann Artist Snapshot:

Bilingual folk gamine Keren Ann Zeidel enchanted the European music cognoscenti with her 2000 debut album--a gauzy confection of gentle, strummy guitars and intriguing French lyrics half-sung, half-whispered directly into listeners' ears. Zeidel maintained this intimate sound on her successive recordings, adding some minimal keyboard touches and percussion. Her U.S. debut, NOT GOING ANYWHERE, was released to wide acclaim in 2003, and the release of 2004's NOLITA, as well as a steady series of showcases around New York City, cemented her position as neo-folk's most treasured proponent.

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DISC 1 for Nolita (CD) Album By Keren Ann (Artist)
1   Que N'ai-je?
2   Greatest You Can Find
3   Chelsea Burns
4   One Day Without
5   La Forme Et Le Fond
6   Nolita
7   Roses & Hips
8   Midi Dans Le Salon De La Duchesse
9   L'Onde Amere
10   For You And I
11   Song Of Alice - (featuring Sean Gullette)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.77) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "[B]ilingual chamber pop that suggests French Sixties chanteuse Francoise Hardy whispering ballads from the first Velvet Underground album....[NOLITA] overflows with slow-burning melancholy..."
Uncut (p.94) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Keren Ann has helped conceive a wildly successful nouvelle vague of French pop..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.64) - Ranked #5 in Mojo's "Top Ten World Albums Of 2005."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.112) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[A] captivating sequence of songs....Keren Ann writes melodies that act as invitations to a soft-focus world of longing and melancholy..."

Title Note

Personnel include: Keren Ann (vocals, various instruments, programming); Sean Gullette (spoken vocals); Karen Brunon (violin); Christophe Morin (cello); Laurent Vemerey (bass instrument).

Recording information: Studio Philipsen, Paris, FR.

This is the fourth album from Israeli-French chanteuse Keren Ann, though only her second outing released in the United States. Recorded in both Paris and New York City, NOLITA finds the artist in mid-Atlantic crossover, caught up in Old World ennui and Manhattan isolation. Here Keren Ann, singing in both French and English, wanders through a gallery of sad songs, all captured in a rich, natural production style.

The opener, "Que N'ai-je?," has a mild bossa nova lilt, while the title track doubles her vocal in a just-woke-up sexy harmony (reminiscent of Azure Ray), eventually accompanied by a violin that doesn't know whether it's serenading or shivering in the cold. A mellow electric guitar straight out of the Velvet Underground's third album brings a narcotic elegance to "Chelsea Burns," while "Midi Dans Le Salon De La Duchesse" weds pedal-steel country to a "Sea of Love"-style pop rhythm. On other tracks, touches of harmonica, piano, and trumpet add to the urban, rain-soaked moodiness, but it all comes down to Keren Ann's spare acoustic guitar and sultry, half-whispered vocals, suffused with a romantic longing both immediately intimate and already gone.

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