O Seasons O Castles

Artist: Katell Keineg
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075596165723
EAN: 0075596165723
ASIN: B000002HFR

Release Date: 1994-08-16

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Tracks:

Hestia
Partisan
Cut
Bop
Burden
Franklin
Conch Shell
Coolea
Destiny's Darling
Waiting For You To Smile
Paris
O Seasons
O Iesu Mawr
The Gulf Of Araby

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Customer Reviews:

Literate Lyrics and an Astounding Voice.......2004-12-19

If you aren't familiar with Katell Keineg, but you like women with amazing voices and incredible song-writing abilities, you should become familiar with Katell Keineg. Helps if you like blues. Helps if you like jazz. Helps if you like strong, smoky voices that can hiss, growl, scream and croon.

Of her three albums, this one remains my favorite, possibly because it blew me away back when it was first released. It still blows me away.

Irksome at times........2004-08-25

I'm not saying that Katell isn't a talented artist, that she is not original, this album is simply not that accessible - partly due to its weirdness. If one wants to hear spoken sections on an album, that's OK, and yes, it's atmospheric, but I personally prefer to listen to MUSIC instead. The song "O seasons", "Partisan" and "Franklin" are stunning indeed but the rest is sometimes way too jazzy or simply irritating for me (Katell's vioce is at times even frightening - while listening to "Burden" one can really FEEL THE BURDEN of the act of listening to such a song). Overall, this purchase was a great disappointment, because I really thought it was gonna be something at least as good as Natalie Merchant. (And yes, though I've not listened to the Natalie's version of "Gulf of Araby", I'm sure she's done it better.)

Exquisite grace from a beautiful artist! Ole!.......2003-12-15

Katell is in a KATegory all her own and TELLS it all with great sincerity, depth, and with something more seriously lacking among her musical peers: a lack of compromise. She's not art-chic because she's cooler than that and she's not a folk singer because she's more sonically mature than that. If you had to force a musical sibling on her, it would probably be close to the MOOD of Belle & Sebastian.

She used to swap nights with Jeff Buckley down at Sin-e, both offering up exquisite and FREE shows to lucky New Yorkers. They were signed at the same time and with equal zeal by their respective labels. Katell, being a modern-day Joni Mitchell but with a warm fireplace of a voice that can rise to a full roar, was less in-step with the trends of harder-edged and angrier music of the times. But that's exactly why you'd want to pick up this record, and any of her recordings. She will be like Nina Simone, heard when she is 70, ignored by many but known to be the Geniune Article by those who know what they're hearing without a magazine telling them so.

A trule great CD.......2003-03-22

Katell Keineg is the greatest secret in popular music. An amazing voice and excellent song writing make for an album as teriffic as it is obscure. She is a major talent. Do yourself a favor and check her out.

Better Than The Rest.......2002-09-11

I rated this album and was recommended singers like Norah JOnes and Dido. Puh-leeeeze. KAtell Keineg is nothing like those singers. For a start, she's actually talented, a brilliant songwriter and an amazing lyricist. Her songs are like wonderful poems or short stories, each one tells a story that is both personal and universal. The language she uses is just mesmerisingly beautiful. I love this album and her second, Jet, and am just sorry she hasn't made any more. I think KK is better than any other female singer/songwriter out there -- even my other faves, Tori Amos, Kate Bush and Joan Osborne pale in comparison. But don't even think of puttingher in the same category as Jones or Dido. Those singers have more in common with Diana Krall than KK.

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