Not Going Anywhere

Keren Ann | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: October 1, 2004
• Release Date: September 30, 2004
• Label: BLUE NOTE
• Copyright: 2003 Capitol, a division of EMI Music France
• Total Length: 1:00:55
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• ASIN: B001JK4UD8
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #58,751 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of a kind, September 16, 2004

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Gal Uchovsky "eytangal" (Tel Aviv, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Not Going Anywhere (Audio CD)

"Not Going Anywhere" is Keren Ann's 3rd record, Her first in English. The first to get a US release. And it's about time.

As the Israeli - French artist is one of the best singer-songwriters in the world today. Her delicate singing, is strong and powerful as if she was screaming. A perfect writer, Keren Ann molds her songs like little sad diamonds and then adds a lot by whispering them to your ear.

Think a modern Francoise Hardy, with a touch of nick Drake.

If you loved Joni Mitchel and Suzan Vega, If you adore Damien Rice, Rufus Wainwright and Tom Mcrae, if you went to see Simon and Garfunkel live this summer - Keren Ann is your next best friend.

Get her before the hype.

She is the new Nora Jones minus the Nutrasweet.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Definitely Going Somewhere, October 3, 2004

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Kathy Fennessy - See all my reviews

This review is from: Not Going Anywhere (Audio CD)

The first English-language recording from Keren Ann is sure to elicit comparisons to Francoise Hardy, but there's more of an English folksinger/bossa nova vibe to her Blue Note debut, like Astrud Gilberto singing the Nick Drake songbook. Her voice is delicate, yet sure; the arrangements intricate, yet spare. Some may miss the electronic textures of previous albums, "La Biographie de Luka Philipsen" and "La Disparition", but Keren Ann sounds more like herself now, less like a French Beth Orton. When foreign artists sign to American record companies and start singing in English, it's usually the kiss of death, but this is Keren Ann's best record yet.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Incomparable, February 22, 2006

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MattyLove (Lawrenceville NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Not Going Anywhere (Audio CD)

There's no one like Keren Ann - in this century anyway. Her singing style might be best described as "softspoken", pun intended, but the overall effect is mesmerizing, soothing... I slightly prefer "Nolita" over this effort, that CD is darker, haunting, but this is also very very good. The title track, with its ironic but key "This is why I always whisper" lyric (it really is like listening to a whisper to a scream) sets the tone and the rest of the disc just sails along. Other standout tracks that keep the mellow spell intact - By The Cathedral, Polly, Sit In the Sun... heck, theyre all good, if in pretty much the same mode (except Sailor & Widow, which seems destined for an off-Broadway musical somewhere).

Having seen her live I got the feeling I was in Paris in 1935, listening to a sexy lounge singer coo her way through a series of unfamiliar torch songs, accompanied by an antique guitar, a piano, a french horn and 2 strings. That description might not sound all that great, but somehow, in todays world of WT hip-hop and screaming death metal, it really, really works.

Keren Ann is a talented musician who definitely has carved a niche of her own in the music landscape.