Artist.......: Keren Ann
Album........: Aux Francofolies de La Rochelle
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Folk
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2016-08-06
Str.date.....: 2015-07-00
Quality......: 219kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.kerenann.com/
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1. Aux Francofolies de La Rochelle 73:13
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Singer/songwriter Keren Ann Zeidel, who records bilingual neo-folk music 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. In the
years to come, she would also learn to play the harmonica and the clarinet.
Zeidel and her family, including a brother and sister, lived in Israel and
Holland before settling in Paris, France, when she was 11.
In the 1990s, Zeidel met musician/arranger Benjamin Biolay, with whom she would
form a fruitful partnership. Later that decade, she had a small part (as Judith)
in Alexandre Arcady's K, and in 1998 she released a handful of singles
(including "I+I+I") as a member of Shelby. The singles attracted little
attention, but Zeidel bounced back by releasing her full-length solo debut, La
Biographie de Luka Philipsen, in 2000. On it, she combined trip-hop, folk, and
French pop to sublime effect, citing Russian literature, Jewish folk music,
French poetry, Bob Dylan, and Suzanne Vega (whose "Luka" is also referenced in
the title) as influences for her unique sound.
La Biographie was enthusiastically received in Europe, garnering favorable
comparisons to Franτoise Hardy, Portishead, Beth Orton, and Dido. In addition,
it earned several nominations for the French equivalent of the Grammy, the
Victoires, including Best New Discovery (Artist and Album) and Best Song of the
Year. One of its songs, "Jardin d'Hiver" (co-written by Biolay) also became a
hit for Henri Salvador, whose best-selling album Chambre Avec Vue contained five
songs co-written by Zeidel and Biolay.
In 2001, Zeidel returned the favor by assisting with the writing of Biolay's
Rose Kennedy. Her follow-up to La Biographie, La Disparition (The
Disappearance), came out the following year. She recorded a version in English
at the same time. While preparing the album, Zeidel listened to a lot of
Beatles, Chet Baker, and Tom Waits recordings, resulting in a bluesier, jazzier
sound. As with La Biographie, much of the material was written with Biolay. Late
in 2003, the English-language Not Going Anywhere arrived and was distributed by
Blue Note in America the following summer. Keren Ann has also worked with Bar≡i
J≤hannsson as Lady & Bird. The partnership delivered an album that same year.
After relocating to New York, Keren Ann released the half-French, half-English
Nolita in 2004, which marked the first time she'd worked without Biolay,
choosing instead to write/produce most of the tracks herself. She followed it
with a self-titled release in 2007, earning some of the warmest praise of her
career in the process. In 2010 she contributed covers of '60s French pop songs
to the soundtrack of director Benoεt PΘtrΘ 's film Thelma, Louise et Chantal,
composed music for the European TV channel Arte, and wrote and produced for
actress, model, and singer Emmanuelle Seigner (the wife of Roman Polanski). In
2011, she returned to her solo career with 101, another self-produced collection
of folk, dreamy pop, and French chanson. The following year she contributed six
songs to the soundtrack of Yossi, an Israeli film by Etyan Fox, and appeared
onscreen, performing a concert. She also gave birth to her first child in 2012.
When Keren Ann returned to recording, she changed her process. She helped to
finance the sessions through a Plege Music campaign. Working in Brooklyn, Paris
and London with producer Renaud Letang , she recorded live in the studio--a
first. The first single "Where Did You Go" was released in February 2016. In
March, contributors also received exclusive remixes of the track by both
Benjamin Biolay and Yuksek. The finished album, You're Gonna Get Love, was
released by Universal at the beginning of April.
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