Nolita/Not Going Anywhere

Label: EMI MUSIC en EDI standard order
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2

UPC: 094633582927
EAN: 0094633582927
ASIN: B000A2ACJ2

Release Date: 2005-09-20

Nolita/Not Going Anywhere

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Tracks:

Not Going Anywhere
Polly
Road Bin
End Of May
Sailor & Widow
Sit In The Sun
Right Now & Right Here
Seventeen
Spanish Song Bird
By The Cathedral
Ending Song

Tracks:

Que N' Ai-Je
L' Onde Amere
Chelsea Burns
Midi Dans Le Salon
Nolita
Roses & Hips
One Day Without
La Forme Et Le Fond
For You And I
Song Of Alice

Album Description

Import only coupling of her albums, Nolita and Not Going Anywhere ( that includes a bonus disc with two tracks, Beautiful Day and I Was Born to Love Magic. Two standard jewel cases housed in a slipcase. 23 tracks in all. EMI.

Customer Reviews:

Stark and sweet.......2005-11-19

Keren Ann Zeidel began her career with trippier pop songs, which got her compared to artists like Beth Gibbons of Portishead. But if Gibbons sounds haunting in her trip-hop cage, then Keren Ann sounds as much so when all the extra sounds are stripped away.

This two-pack includes her fourth and fifth albums, "Not Going Anywhere" and "Nolita." While these albums have differing sounds, they share a sultry, slightly creepy atmosphere, wrapped around the French singer/songwriter's fragile little voice.

"Not Going Anywhere" opens with a soft guitar and a little song musing on goodbyes and how "people come and go and walk away/but I'm not going anywhere." Music-box melodies, folky ballads, thumpy pop, gothic piano-pop and angelic-sounding choruses all add to the vaguely dream-like quality of this album. This isn't your parents' folk-pop.

There's a somewhat different sound in "Nolita," where Keren Ann stretches her wings a bit. It opens with an eerie-sounding pop number, before blossoming into wistful love songs, guitar pop, delicate pianos and strummed guitars, cheery little bouncy songs, and a country-folk number with a trippy edge.

With her trip-folky music and sad, soft vocals, Keren Ann sounds a little like Hope Sandoval. And like Sandoval's music, Keren Ann's music is full of peace, beauty and a sort of airy drowsiness. By the time the bewildered spoken-word "Song of Alice" hits, you will probably be mellow enough to melt.

Keren Ann's vocals are what really stand out -- she whispers, but not to cover up lack of vocal ability. Rather, it brings out an alluring melancholy in her voice that louder singing would not reveal, and allows her to sing angelic harmony with herself.

The music itself is in tune with her vocals, tending to gentle, folky guitar, delicate piano, electronic flourishes, violin and the occasional grinding bass. It's too delicate to be folk, too low-key to be pop. The only downside is "Nolita's" harmonica. It just doesn't fit in -- it's too grating and loud, and it drowns out the subtler instruments.

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