A Way To Your Heart

Salim Nourallah | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 2004)
• Original Release Date: March 23, 2004
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Paisley Pop
• ASIN: B00021OZZS
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,238,437 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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University of Colorado Advocate

Fans of Pete Yorn and of Beck's Sea Change rejoice!

Product Description

On this solo EP, a companion piece to his full-length CD Polaroid released by Western Vinyl, Nourallah continues to mine the side of music he explored with the Nourallah Brothers. His achingly engaging voice keeps the path the album seeks: longing for love and the past. Many of Salim’s songs have a soft, bittersweet quality about them. Blending folk with Beatles, 60’s British pop, Salim’s style also brings to moment some of Wilco’s quieter moments.. The songs are simple; most of them fronted by an acoustic guitar with synthesizer accompaniment floating in the background with an organic production that recalls Jon Brion’s style. As in the world, where fame is measurement by six degrees of separation, it turns out Brion and Nourallah have a friend in common, Rhett Miller of the Old ‘97s, for whom Brion produced his Elektra released solo album. Nourallah served as bassist for Rhett Miller’s touring band, The Instigators during tours of Japan and the U.S. in 2003.

WOULD SOUND GOOD ON A MIX TAPE WITH: Wilco, Elliot Smith, Damien Jurado, Rhett Miller, Magnetic Fields, Aimee Mann

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5.0 out of 5 stars Beatles,Neil Finn and Elliot Smith fans take note!, August 16, 2004

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Lisa Holton "Lisa strawberry" (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Way To Your Heart (Audio CD)

From its inception, "A Way to Your Heart" invites listeners to revel in their deepest emotional well, nonetheless compelling them to tap along to its pop hooks and hand claps. The title track is the beautiful hit song you've never heard before. "Try to Get Along" with its Harrison approved guitar riffs and pleading chorus, begs the question: how can music this gripping and introspective traverse such melodic space? Lyrically, you can count on Nourallah for witty repartee and sardonic glee: "Two rights just make one wrong." And then at times, Salim asks us to follow imagistic, surreal lines such as "I see you shining like a gun, your love a ray for everyone" inside the wash of carousel sounds in the beautiful "Avenue." Wonder where the Beatles' influence has gone? Look no further than Nourallah, and be grateful someone so talented, passionate and intelligent has picked up their torch.