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...that make it good French company to Portishead. She followed it with La Disparition, stripping the sound down to simple acoustic songs. It was her third, Not Going Anywhere, her first in English, that got the interest of the hipster crowd on American shores, which continued with 2004's Nolita, named after her Manhattan neighborhood and imbued with her time spent there. In addition to her own albums, she has written for others, including octogenarian jazz and bass nova icon Henri Salvador, and a side project with Icelandic musician Bardi Johannson called Lady & Bird...
...friend recently dragged me to see her in concert and she was fantastic. I’ve reformed and am now a big fan. I recently fell in love with Keren Ann’s song “Que N’ai-Je” from her Nolita album. The unfortunately-named Keren Ann is an Israeli-born French singer/songwriter and her voice has a totally sexy vulnerability reminiscent of her fellow countrywoman Carli Bruni. I love the variety of styles she pulls off successfully—from the Radiohead-like...
...usually impossible to understand the lyrics (although that hasn't kept Lil Jon from having a successful career). But if you want to enjoy one upside of the global economy, here are five albums by international women with something to say - in English, but with distinctive pronunciation. Keren Ann Nolita The previous two albums by this Indonesian-Dutch-Israeli-Russian (who splits her time between Paris and New York City, naturally) were such delicate exercises in mood that they seemed to avoid hard consonants, as if the tiniest plosive could break the spell. Here Ann gets a bit more sonically...
KEREN ANN - NOLITA...
...even more exclusive level, designer Tory Burch's shop, Tory, in Manhattan's NoLIta neighborhood (North of Little Italy), is designed to look like her own living room, with overstuffed sofas, orange walls and a coffee table and rug reminiscent of the style of interior decorator David Hicks. But while the shop may look exclusive, the merchandise...