Music CD - Yael Naïm, David Donatien: Yael Naim

	Music CD: Yael Naim Artist: Yael Naïm, David Donatien List Price: $13.99 Our Price: $8.63 Your Save: $ 5.36 ( 38% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Atlantic
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Tracks: 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 Happiness
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0825646960385 Label: Atlantic Manufacturer: Atlantic Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Atlantic Release Date: 2008-03-18 Studio: Atlantic
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: AMAZING!!!!! Comment: I'm a Brazilian, I don't understand one single word in Hebrew... But the emotion that Yael can insert in every song makes my soul travels far far away... She is Incredible! Amazing, DIVINE!!!!! Customer Rating: Summary: Love this CD Comment: I got this CD like many others b/c of the apple commercial. I listen to it all the time. Yael has a great voice and is fresh. Her songs just make you happy. Customer Rating: Summary: Yael Naim Comment: Yael Naim is one of the greatest singers to cross the pond in a long time! One of those CDs I can listen to over and over! I wish there were translations to the words she sang in Hebrew. Customer Rating: Summary: Pretty voice Comment: I do like this CD, even though the majority of it is in Hebrew. I thought since she had a French label there would be some in French, but there's only like two lines in French. All in all, it's neat. The cover of britney spears' song toxic is really funny because of her accent. Customer Rating: Summary: Okay Comment: Based off of her popular single, I expected much more from this album which wasn't delivered. Her voice is beautiful but her "songs" are a bit out there More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: To begin with, this album was meant to focus solely on guitar and vocals. But little by little Yael and David Donatien, who encouraged her to sing in Hebrew, padded out the architecture and formed a team. Xavier Tribolet (drums), Laurent David (bass), Voed Nir (cello) and Julien Feltin (electric guitar) joined them as well as S.Husky Huskolds for the mix (Tom Waits, Fiona Apple, Me'Shell Ndegeocello). The instrumentation is pretty minimalist here yet incredibly colourful with the participation of the brass section, the Mellotron, the cello and some programming. Recorded in the young woman's flat in Paris the 13 songs contain a part of Yael happy (Endless Song of Happiness) and a melancholic (Paris, Lonely) existence. Some of them, like Yashanti or Lachlom dive into dreams, others like Baboker bathe in the serenity found at the break of day. Shelcha looks at a love with no future. The most outrageous is of course the cover of Britney Spears' Toxic. Listening to these little marvels could possibly remind us of old friends like Tori Amos or Fiona Apple. Yet the ensemble isn't witness to excessive borrowing or exaggerated marking, but quite the contrary revealing a sincerity and absolute musical clarity. In fact it is quite astonishing how something that sounds so familiar could seduce our ears with such a nude and original beauty. Perhaps it is due to the dominance of Hebrew, a language so rarely sung in this context, that comes across as universal as Cesaria Evora's Portuguese Creole? Or is it the simply the very freshness exhaled by the personality of this young woman who discovers in New Soul - sung in English with a contagious optimism - that she is "a new soul, in this foreign world, hoping to learn a little"? "It was when I was really young that I sincerely believed to be an old soul reincarnated and I could even say it gave me a sense of superiority over others. But then as I subsequently did everything the wrong way round I concluded that it was actually my first time on earth and that I should learn to be a more humble." On Far Far, she herself delivers this other perspective, that of a little girl who chases her dreams but who can only achieve them by accepting the "beautiful mess inside". In short both her own personal history and that of this simply magical record.