{"id":323,"date":"2008-01-24T12:54:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T21:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/new-soul-yael-naim"},"modified":"2008-01-24T12:54:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T21:54:24","slug":"new-soul-yael-naim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/new-soul-yael-naim\/","title":{"rendered":"New Soul – Yael Naim"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MacBook Air Commercial<\/a>
\nYael Na\u00efm @ Taratata<\/a>
\nYael Naim & Lucie Star Academy<\/a>
\nNew Soul (Cover)<\/a><\/p>\n

New Soul MP3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m a new soul I came to this strange world
\nHoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take
\nBut since I came here felt the joy and the fear
\nFinding myself making every possible mistake <\/p>\n

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la… <\/p>\n

I’m a young soul in this very strange world
\nHoping I could learn a bit about what is true and fake
\nBut why all this hate? Try to communicate
\nFinding trust and love is not always easy to make<\/p>\n

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la… <\/p>\n

This is a happy end
\ncause’ you don’t understand
\neverything you have done
\nwhy is everything so wrong
\nThis is a happy end
\ncome and give me your hand
\nI’ll take your far away<\/p>\n

I’m a new soul I came to this strange world
\nhoping I could learn a bit about how to give and take.
\nBut since I came here felt the joy and the fear
\nfinding myself making every possible mistake.<\/p>\n

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la… <\/p>\n

Bio<\/a><\/strong\n\u201cIt\u2019s a dream I almost gave up on along the way\u201d, says Yael Naim about her first album released by T\u00f4t 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\u2019s 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.\n\nBorn 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. \u201cI remember there was a little organ which I\u2019d 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.\u201d Ten years of conservatory and classical piano lessons followed. \u201cAfter I saw the film, Amadeus, there was only one thing I wanted to do and that was to write symphonies.\u201d Her idyll with classical music quickly revealed another. \u201cAt home my father would play his Beatles records and that\u2019s how I discovered Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road, aged 12. And also when I forgot my classical ambitions.\u201d \n\nYael began composing songs which helped get over her timidity\u2026 With adolescence she discovered a voice and leant towards a vocal clarity by listening to Aretha Franklin. Aged 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\u2019 musicians and performed some concerts with them. Even the two years of military service (which Israeli women are obliged to do) didn\u2019t stop her musical journey and she managed to form a group called The Anti Collision who played in clubs around the country. \u201cAfter all these years everything was a bit chaotic inside. My classical education, my love of pop, the jazz, the folk... I didn\u2019t know how to bring it all together, but I knew I wanted to write songs.\u201d\n\nIt was an invitation to a charity concert that brought her to Paris in 2000 and saw things really start rolling. During the show, she was noticed by producers and four days later she had signed a contract with EMI and had an album on the boil. Her name really began to circulate after she was spotted by director Elie Chouraqui who asked her to play the role of Miriam (Moses\u2019 sister) in the Ten Commandments and then she was approached to do the original sound track for the film, Harrison\u2019s Flowers... \u201cI hesitated but I don\u2019t regret having accepted because it was an amazing thing to live through for two and a half years.\u201d \n\nHer first album, In a Man\u2019s Womb, recorded between Paris and Los Angeles was finally released in 2001. For her it was a failure, \u201cA huge deception because I\u2019d given everything up for it. I suddenly lost a lot of confidence in myself which really led me to question everything.\u201d So the young woman with the golden voice was plunged into a period of disillusion concerning her record, the end of a relationship and a career ranging from jobs to survive (another musical, Gladiator) to edgier collaborations (the album Ready Made FC).\n\nThen there was the meeting in 2004 with David Donatien who was accompanying a friend on stage they had in common. A West Indian drummer, David had spent the last 15 years working with an extraordinary variety of people from Bernard Lavilliers to the electro musician Junior Jack, from Wassis Diop to Malia. As changeable with instruments as he is with genres, he moves from traditional drum kits to electronic tools. David has always made a point of not stopping at just the one vocation of rhythm, but throws himself into the role of arranger too. His skill and imagination has literally made Yael\u2019s musical universe bloom by giving a direction to her music and an aesthetic to her songs. Equally it was David who encouraged Yael to sing in Hebrew, something she had strictly denied herself up until now. Their complicity and complementary styles are such that now they prefer to present themselves as a group.\n\nTo begin with this album was meant to focus solely on guitar and vocals. But little by little Yael and David padded out the sonorous 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\u2019Shell Ndegeocello). \n\nThe 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\u2019s flat in Paris the 13 songs contain a part of Yael happy (Endless Song of Happiness) and 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\u2019 Toxic. \n\nListening to these little marvels could possibly remind us of old friends like Tori Amos or Fiona Apple. Yet the ensemble isn\u2019t witness to excessive borrowing or exaggerated sonorous 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\u2019s Portuguese Creole? \n\nOr 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 \u2013 that she is \u201ca new soul, in this foreign world, hoping to learn a little\u201d? \u201cIt 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.\u201d \n\nOn 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 \u201cbeautiful mess inside\u201d. In short both her own personal history and that of this simply magical record.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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