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...brand of dramatic songcraft made famous by singers like Charles Aznavour and Edith Piaf decades ago. Is a band's m.o. to perform "chanson" with an ironic rock twist? Is that chanteuse doing classic chanson writ modern? It seems that French musicians can't just simply be musicians. But Keren Ann can, and she's not even French...
...year-old singer-songwriter was born in Israel as Keren Ann Zeidel, grew up there and in the Netherlands until her family moved to France two decades ago. After two albums in French, she has since mostly recorded in English, and recently celebrated her new self-titled album's European release with a private concert at Le Réservoir, a small club on Paris' Right Bank. After adjusting her guitar and donning a harmonica holder, she launched into the new song "Lay Your Head Down," with her four-man band. As the song's opening steady drumbeat kicked...
...This is what a musician works toward and is grateful for, particularly one who has spent much time building an international fanbase by touring heavily over the past few years. "It's great doing it the old-fashioned way," Keren Ann says by telephone, a few hours before going onstage in Orléans last week. "Touring and touring and touring." Which is something she'll be doing more of around North America starting next month, as the album, her fifth since her 2000 debut, hits stores Tuesday...
...Many musicians release self-titled records, and when it's not a debut, it's often is marketing as indicating a spiritual or artistic rebirth - or maybe just a new record deal. For Keren Ann, it's nothing of the sort. "I hadn't used my eponymous bonus," she jokes. Actually, she says she typically has a title in mind throughout the writing and recording of an album, but this time wanted no title...
When biomedical researcher Keren Bismuth returned to France last year after completing the research for her doctorate at the U.S. government's prestigious National Institutes of Health in Maryland, one of the inconveniences she found was being put onto a series of three-month contracts rather than a permanent one. Finding work in London, Dublin, Montreal and other foreign cities, by contrast, seems much easier. Vladimir Cordier, an unemployed French graduate, got a job within five days of arriving at London's Waterloo Station on a one-way Eurostar ticket, and was so elated that he even wrote a book...