| Product Summary | | Label: Big Kids Productions | | UPC: 00825646960385 | | Release Date: 3/18/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 207501556 | | Item#: M42XXR | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 34991 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Paris - (Hebrew) ~ Yael Naim |  | | 2. Too Long ~ Yael Naim | | | 3. New Soul ~ Yael Naim | | | 4. Levater - (Hebrew) ~ Yael Naim | | | 5. Shelcha - (Hebrew, Hebrew) ~ Yael Naim | | | 6. Lonely ~ Yael Naim | | | 7. Far Far ~ Yael Naim | | | 8. Yashanti ~ Yael Naim | | | 9. 7 Baboker - (Hebrew) ~ Yael Naim | | | 10. Lachlom - (Hebrew) ~ Yael Naim | | | 11. Toxic ~ Yael Naim | | | 12. Pachad - (Hebrew) ~ Yael Naim | | | 13. Endless Song of Happiness - (Hebrew) ~ Yael Naim | |
| | "It's a dream I almost gave up on along the way", says Yael Naim about her first album released by Tot ou Tard. Without meeting the multi-instrumentalist David Donatien, to whom she dedicated two years and who illuminated the artist with his talents as arranger and director, it's true that this project would have been forgotten at the back of a cupboard. Blessed with an unsettlingly pure voice and an incredible agility at composition, the Israeli singer with her jet-black hair fumbled a long time before succeeding with this collection of ballads that meander through folk and pop, with an elegiac frugality and multi-coloured fantasy. If the creation of this record was long and painful, the birth of its author as an artistic personality seems even more miraculous today, in a domain where everything seems to have been already sung or played. To the point where with Yael Naim music that was once simply beautiful has now magically found a lost grace. Track Listing
1. Paris
2. Too Long
3. New Soul
4. Levater
5. Shelcha
6. Lonely
7. Far Far
8. Yashanti
9. 7 Baboker
10. Lachlom
11. Toxic
12. Pachad
13. Endless Song of Happyness
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Yael Naim (vocals, guitars, keyboards); David Donatien (keyboards, drums, percussion, programming). | | On her remarkably assured self-titled Atlantic debut, French-Israeli vocalist Yael Naim joins the ranks of inventive-yet-accessible performers such as Fiona Apple, Feist, and Keren Ann, offering up an album that's eclectic but never overreaching. Selected for a prominent Apple laptop ad, the buoyant piano-led single "New Soul" is the record's high point, and showcases Naim's warm, inviting voice. Other standout tracks include "Toxic," which recasts the Britney Spears hit as a strange lullaby, and the folk-tinged "Yashanti," one of a handful of songs sung in Hebrew or French. While many people will seek out YAEL NAIM for "New Soul," they'll find that whole album is worthy of adoration and acclaim. |
Producer: David Donatien |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/18/2008 | | Original Release Date : 2008 | | Catalog ID : 461628-2 | | Label : Atlantic (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00825646960385 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (p.65)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A]rty folk pop: acoustic guitars, parlor-room piano, school-band brass....All in all, pleasant stuff..." |
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| | Bio | | | Yael Naim Born in 1978 in Paris, Yael spent a large part of her childhood in Ramat Hacharon, a small town not far from Tel Aviv. Her Tunisian parents went to live there when she was four years old. ?I remember there was a little organ which I?d tap my fingers on all the time. My interest in the instrument was so obvious, one day I got home from school and there was a real piano in my bedroom.? Ten years of conservatory and classical piano lessons followed. ?After I saw the film, Amadeus, there was only one thing I wanted to do and that was to write symphonies.? Her idyll with classical music quickly revealed another. ?At home my father would play his Beatles records and that?s how I discovered Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road, aged 12. And also when I forgot my classical ambitions.? Yael began composing songs which helped her get over her shyness...with adolescence she discovered a voice and leant towards a vocal clarity by listening to Aretha Franklin. At age 18, having come across a Joni Mitchell record, she dared to push herself even further with her own lyrics. Music never left her and her curiosity never waned. In a jazz club in Tel Aviv she met Winston Marsalis? musicians and performed some concerts with them. Even the two years of military service (which Israeli women are obliged to do) didn?t stop her musical journey and she managed to form a group called The Anti Collision who played in clubs around the country. ?After all these years everything was a bit chaotic inside. My classical education, my love of pop, the jazz, the folk...I didn?t know how to bring it all together, but I knew I wanted to write songs.?
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