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In the News (Mon 16 Nov 09)

  
  Keren Ann's moody 'Nolita' is quietly seductive - The Boston Globe
Keren Ann is a singer-songwriter, a golden-throated guitar-strummer who pens simple changes and soothing melodies.
While Keren Ann sings in both French and English, her music is far more cafe than coffee house, more suitable for a seduction than an earnest conversation.
Keren Ann's sonic palette is expansive, but it's rendered in the subtlest of shades.
www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/03/15/keren_anns_moody_nolita_is_quietly_seductive   (441 words)

  
  Keren Ann - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
A few weeks into her residency, Keren Ann injured her hand, tearing ligaments in her thumb that required her to wear a cast.
Keren Ann cites two examples: electric guitarist Jack Pettruzzelli on the longing "One Day Without" and jazz trumpeter Avishai Cohen on the quietly fingerpicked beauty "L'onde amère" ("Bitter Wave").
Keren Ann says that Nolita thematically returns to the feel of one of her earlier albums, 2002's La Disparition (The Disappearance): "The themes come back," she says.
music.download.com /kerenann/3600-8742_32-100736589.html   (931 words)

  
  RFI Musique - - KEREN ANN   (Site not responding. Last check: )
One of the major events in Keren Ann's career in 2000, apart from the release of her own album, was when she and Benjamin Biolay wrote the majority of tracks on Henri Salvador's acclaimed new album "Chambre avec vue".
This boosted Keren Ann's reputation to such an extent that she is now considered as one of the leading singer/songwriters on the contemporary French music scene.
But the highlight of Keren Ann's career in 2001 was when she got to support her all-time idol, Suzanne Vega, at the Olympia on June 18th and 19th.
www.rfimusique.com /siteEn/biographie/biographie_6252.asp   (1355 words)

  
 It's easy to warm up to Keren Ann - The Boston Globe
Keren Ann's austere songs, in English and French, about sunny days and sad nights, were the perfect antidote to...
Keren Ann's austere songs, in English and French, about sunny days and sad nights, were the perfect antidote to what awaited outside.
The Middle East Upstairs was nearly full, though by the time Keren Ann began her set an hour late (weather conditions left two of her musicians temporarily stuck in Rhode Island), the crowd had thinned considerably.
www.boston.com /news/globe/living/articles/2005/03/11/its_easy_to_warm_up_to_keren_ann   (506 words)

  
 KEREN ANN
Keren Ann began playing guitar at age 9, but didn’t really sink into its song possibilities until after she moved to France.
Keren Ann delivers the bright but sober, guitar fingerpicked “Road Bin,” the mysteriously splendored “End of May” and a gentle rocker, “Sailor and Widow,” about a widow who “kills all the people she loves.” The songwriter laughs.
While Keren Ann is based in France and spends considerable time in Brussels and Iceland, she will be making her presence known in the U.S. when she sets up a summer residency in New York City at The Sidewalk Café.
www.smellslikemusic.com /artist/pages/0820/keren.html   (854 words)

  
 RFI Musique - - KEREN ANN   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Written from the guts and aimed straight at the heart, Keren Ann's dreamy songs are pure musical gems honed to perfection by a prolific songwriter who, once she starts composing, forgets all sense of time and place.
Keren Ann willingly cites her musical sources, reeling off a list of female singers she claims may have played an unconscious role when she was composing Nolita.
Keren Ann, a veritable polyglot in the music world, admits that these days she writes "more instinctively" in English.
www.rfimusique.com /musiqueen/articles/060/article_7405.asp   (1090 words)

  
 Free Keren Ann Music Online, Music Downloads, Music Videos and Lyrics - Rhapsody Online
Keren Ann Zeidel spent her early years in her parents' respective countries of origin -- Holland and Israel -- before settling in Paris at the age of 11.
Keren Ann and co-songwriter/arranger Biolay were so productive that they followed the debut up with the sparser La Disparition (The Disappearance) the same year (!) and the album was almost as impressive as their debut.
As a lark, Keren Ann recorded a set of unaccented English language demos on her own and was surprised to find that her record label wanted them released.
www.rhapsody.com /kerenann   (395 words)

  
 Keren Ann : Keren Ann - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
Keren Ann Zeidel's international pedigree -- born in Tel Aviv, raised in Paris, now splits her time between there and New York -- served her well on her first four albums, but this fifth, sung entirely in English, is her most worldly yet.
More so than before, perhaps, Keren Ann seems to be enjoying herself, directing her music less self-consciously than before and asserting her eagerness to shift moods and stretch the sonic easel on which she builds.
Keren Ann never really says more than "Why don't you lay your head down in my arms?," allowing the various strings, harmonica and layered vocals to amend her thoughts.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,4061785,00.html   (691 words)

  
 A Clear View: The New Yorker   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Keren Ann recorded most of “Nolita”; in this apartment; the rest was done in Nolita itself, in a studio space that she rents on lower Broadway.
Keren Ann’s music is like that view: a cliché stood up straight and done so well that you remember why it became a cliché.
Keren Ann’s guitar sounds clear and deep as her small, pitch-perfect voice enters: “This is why I always wonder / I’m a pond full of regrets / I always try to not remember rather than forget.” It doesn’t read well on the page, but Keren Ann’s delivery means that it doesn’t have to.
www.newyorker.com /critics/music/?041213crmu_music   (1208 words)

  
 A Clear View: The New Yorker
Keren Ann recorded most of “Nolita”; in this apartment; the rest was done in Nolita itself, in a studio space that she rents on lower Broadway.
Keren Ann’s music is like that view: a cliché stood up straight and done so well that you remember why it became a cliché.
Keren Ann’s guitar sounds clear and deep as her small, pitch-perfect voice enters: “This is why I always wonder / I’m a pond full of regrets / I always try to not remember rather than forget.” It doesn’t read well on the page, but Keren Ann’s delivery means that it doesn’t have to.
newyorker.com /critics/music/?041213crmu_music   (1225 words)

  
 Keren Ann, Keren Ann, Album Review
While that album flirted a little too often with Radio 2-friendly jazzpop, Keren Ann brings with it a broader sonic palette and the result is a more satisfying listen.
There remain some constants however; as on previous releases Keren Ann's vocals are a delight - her delivery an intoxicating, intimate whisper, the audio equivalent of a coy smile forming at the curl of her lips.
Ultimately, while Keren Ann doesn't quite reach the heights of her brilliant second album La Disparition and may disappoint those that were expecting an equally jazzy follow-up to Nolita, this record should serve as a useful introduction to a gifted singer-songwriter who deserves more attention in this country and elsewhere.
www.contactmusic.com /new/home.nsf/webpages/kerenannx17x07x07   (593 words)

  
 Keren Ann - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
A few weeks into her residency, Keren Ann injured her hand, tearing ligaments in her thumb that required her to wear a cast.
Keren Ann says that Nolita thematically returns to the feel of one of her earlier albums, 2002's La Disparition (The Disappearance): "The themes come back," she says.
Nolita opens with "Que n'ai-je," a tune about a woman who is being stalked, according to Keren Ann, "either by someone she loved in the past or by who she herself was 20 years ago.
earthlink.com.com /kerenann/3600-8863_32-100736589.html   (926 words)

  
 M La Music - Keren Ann   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Keren Ann : Je pense qu'il voulait signifier que lorsque je pars dans la musique je suis tellement dans mon truc quand je joue que cela ressemble à de l'ivresse.
Keren Ann : Peu importe quel support physique ou nominatif donné au hasard de la vie, je pense que souvent consciemment ou inconsciemment on est emmené dans des situations qui nous font changer de direction.
Keren Ann : J'adore déléguer mais c'est juste que dans mon cas, il y a trois ans, je me suis séparé d'un commun accord de mon manager qui s'occupait de tout.
www.m-la-music.net /article.php3?id_article=19   (2702 words)

  
 The Windish Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The arrangements and productions of Keren Ann are ripe with subtle surprises, imbued with an organic character that belies the scrutiny with which she refined the album.
The raw materials for Keren Ann set upon her quickly, in a couple bursts of writing.
With so much concern for detail put into refining the songs and sounds of Keren Ann, it was essential to find the right person to mix it.
www.windishagency.com /bio_kerenann.htm   (618 words)

  
 Keren Ann
Keren Ann Zeidel naît en 1974, à; Césarée, près de Tel-Aviv en Israël, d’un père israélien d’origine russe et d’une mère hollandaise d’origine javanaise.
Keren Ann y narre l’histoire d’un personnage fictif qui porte le nom de sa grand-mère maternelle, Lurs Philipsen.
Keren Ann part en tournée, fait les premières parties de Luz Casal, de M et d’Anna Karina et Philippe Katerine, et se produit au festival des Inrockuptibles à l’automne 2000.
www.lehall.com /galerie/journeefemme/032_kerenann.htm   (762 words)

  
 Chickfactor Current Issue - CF #16
keren: it would be a mixture of "ballad de melodie nelson" or "jane b".
keren: bardi johannsson, he is the leader of bang gang.
keren: no, I have many: "it's always you," I like "imagination." I like many, but this one has the phrase "I fall in love too terribly hard for love to ever last" and it suits me, I guess it suits everybody, it's reality.
www.chickfactor.com /current/cf16_kerenann.shtml   (2340 words)

  
 Keren Ann - Keren Ann | RegnYouth Archives
Prior to her 2007 self-titled effort, Paris-based singer-songwriter Keren Ann released several albums that found her refining a mixture of French chanson, rock, folk-pop, and dreamy ambience.
At the center of the album is Ann’s voice, which is that of a breathy chanteuse and begs comparisons to Feist, Bebel Gilberto, and Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval.
But while Ann’s vocals are undeniably lovely, it’s the subtle sophistication of the songs (which meld genres seamlessly) and the production (which is simple, yet beautifully textured) that makes this album a delight.
www.regnyouth.com /?p=5615   (227 words)

  
 French Culture - Music - Performances - Keren Ann on tour
The raw materials for Keren Ann set upon her quickly, in a couple bursts of writing.
Keren Ann's fifth solo album, the eponymous Keren Ann, has been released April 23rd, 2007 in Europe and May 8th, 2007 in the United States.
The arrangements and productions of Keren Ann, her new self-titled album of original, English-language songs, are ripe with subtle surprises, imbued with an organic character that belies the scrutiny with which she refined the album.
www.frenchculture.org /a_keren-ann-on-tour_975.cfm   (408 words)

  
 Keren Ann: Nolita: Pitchfork Record Review
That Keren Ann would want to keep the album private almost makes sense: Her lyrics are peppered with the oblique aphorisms of someone who's concerned exclusively with herself.
Keren Ann enters with a purposefully punny vocal: "It's late, I think I'm gonna stay, think I'm gonna bury you," she sings, but the "bury" is drawn out and slurred-- she could just as well be singing "marry you." A hollow, reverberating trill stretches out in the darkened space like moonlight rippling over water.
On her self-titled, fifth album, Keren Ann crafts the spirit-- or spiritlessness-- of drowsy pessimism into a ragged, shadowy baroque, where songs may tumble in over harmonicas or drift off with a choir.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/k/keren-ann/nolita.shtml   (585 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Keren Ann: Music: Keren Ann
Keren Ann may not be the first female singer-songwriter with guitar to have released an album characterised by soft, floaty vocals and dreamy melodies, but she nevertheless manages to stand out from the crowd.
Keren Ann Zeidel's refusal to settle for one pace and sound on the album makes for a wave-like change in style.
This is the first Keren Ann album I've heard (but 5th of her career).
www.amazon.co.uk /Keren-Ann/dp/B000KZRO1I   (657 words)

  
 Artist Profile - Keren Ann
A few weeks into her residency, Keren Ann injured her hand, tearing ligaments in her thumb that required her to wear a cast.
Keren Ann cites two examples: electric guitarist Jack Pettruzzelli on the longing "One Day Without" and jazz trumpeter Avishai Cohen on the quietly fingerpicked beauty "L'onde amère" ("Bitter Wave").
Keren Ann says that Nolita thematically returns to the feel of one of her earlier albums, 2002's La Disparition (The Disappearance): "The themes come back," she says.
www.emimusicpub.com /worldwide/artist_profile/keren-ann_profile.html   (908 words)

  
 Keren Ann - listen to free MP3 song download & watch music videos - MOG
Keren Ann (born Keren Ann Zeidel in Caesarea, Israel, on March 10 1974) is a recording artist/singer/songwriter/producer based largely in Paris, New York and Israel.
keren ann is an artist i personally haven’t heard of before, since i read an article about her in a magazine a few days before.
Ann will take to the road in June to promote what will no doubt be another batch of breathy tunes all sounding like the one before it.
mog.com /music/Keren_Ann   (1162 words)

  
 Wireless Bollinger - Keren Ann
The eponymous fifth solo album from Israeli born Songstress Keren Ann Zeidel is a frustrating listen.
But what frustrates about Keren Ann is that, apart from the first track and to a certain extent the appealingly strange 'Liberty', the songs found on the record never really achieve what they set out to do or live up to the ideas behind them.
Not because it's a particularly bad one (which it isn't), but rather because it's from a talented artist who has some excellent output behind her and still flashes some hugely promising sparks of inspiration which are never quite brought to fruition.
www.wirelessbollinger.com /reviews/music_reviews/keren_ann   (475 words)

  
 BUREAU EXPORT - ARTIST
The arrangements and productions of Keren Ann are ripe with subtle surprises, imbued with an organic character that belies the scrutiny with which she refined the album.
Source materials were tinkered with in her home studio, yet nothing of Keren Ann sounds homemade.
With so much concern for detail put into refining the songs and sounds of Keren Ann, it was essential to find the right person to mix it.
www.french-music.org /scr_artist.php?artist_id=22434   (651 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Keren Ann - New York, New York - Pop / Alternative - www.myspace.com/kerenann
Keren Ann's Latest Blog Entry [Subscribe to this Blog]
Not sure if my request had anything to do with that, but it was a great performance either way.
This summer I was listening to 'Keren Ann' over and over again down at the beach- finishing off one Campari and soda after another- and other stuff too- just waiting for a storm to roll up- I thought, this must be what perfect equanimity must be like...
www.myspace.com /kerenann   (678 words)

  
 pastemusic.com: Keren Ann
While Keren Ann sings in both French and English, her music is far more cafe than coffee house, more suitable for a seduction than an earnest conversation.
Singer/songwriter Keren Ann Zeidel, who records under the name Keren Ann, was born in Israel in 1974 to a Dutch-Javanese mother and a Russian-Israeli father.
She was nine when her parents bought her a guitar, on which she learned to play songs by Joni Mitchell and Serge Gainsbourg.
www.pastestore.com /artist/10564   (570 words)

  
 Keren Ann : La disparition / CD-Kritik
Doch für Keren Ann Zeidel, Tochter eines Israeli und einer Holländerin, die aber seit ihrer Jugend in Frankreich lebt, sind die Träume längst nicht mehr unerreichbar.
Beständig ist sie ihnen in den vergangenen Jahren näher gekommen, nicht zuletzt, seitdem sie 1998 Benjamin Biolay begegnete.
Gemeinsam singen er und Keren Ann ihre anrührend schöne Ballade "Les rivières de janvier".
www.cd-kritik.de /kritiken/cd/keren-ld.htm   (389 words)

  
 Keren Ann at Southpaw on 1-7-05!
As the curtains drew to a close and Keren Ann started setting up, I was brimming with anticipation to see what songs she would play in her set.
Keren Ann is a French chanteuse with an elegant voice and whose songs are simple and understated but very well composed.
Keren Ann’s performance is by far the best acoustic show I’ve been to, easily eclipsing Rilo Kiley’s effort at Maxwell’s last January.
journals.aol.com /egg7776/AsianGuyontheEdge/entries/2005/02/10/keren-ann-at-southpaw-on-1-7-05/1367   (356 words)

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