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VANESSA DAOU is known internationally for her signature breathy vocal style. On each of her albums, she has explored her musical influences & mixed them into her own unique hybrid brew of Jazz, Blues, Rock, Folk & Electronica. TIME magazine writes: "Vanessa Daou's combination of Jazz and Pop make an exhilarating mix. Built on piano, synthesizers and Daou's mesmerizing, Billie Holiday-like vocals,  the music conjures up the cool mood of an urban nightscape." Her first solo album, Zipless, was originally released on her own label Lotus Records and was later signed by Bob Krasnow to his then newly established label Krasnow Entertainment on MCA Records in '95. JOE SENT ME marks Vanessa Daou's 6th solo album and is the premiere release on her current imprint Daou Records.
Throughout her career, Vanessa has used each album as a conceptual tool to explore the world, past, present, and imagined future. Starting with Head Music, Vanessa's debut release on Columbia Records, a meditation on Taoist philosophy, to Zipless on MCA Records where Vanessa transforms the confessional poems of Erica Jong into songs exploring the intimate thoughts of a woman in a changing society. On Plutonium Glow Vanessa merges themes of cyberspace and outer space, using the radioactive element as an image, a force and a world of it's own. Dear John Coltrane is a poetic ode to the legendary Jazz Musician; for Make You Love Vanessa uses as her guide the life of a close friend living in Paris who symbolized for Vanessa the "quintessential post-modern woman, who is both heroine and heartbreaker."
JOE SENT ME is a pared down and refined synthesis of the various styles Daou has explored throughout her storied career - a sonic collage of slow-burning smoky jazz, hazy Delta Blues, atmospheric electronic pop, sultry soul, melancholic neo-folk and stirring poetic meditations. The album simmers and steams, reminding the listener of Vanessa Daou's previous releases while bringing a new sound into focus.
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ABOUT THE WEBSITES:
ABOUT THE INSPIRATION:
ABOUT THE ALBUM:
- Produced by Vanessa Daou
- Co-Produced by Anthony Johnson
- Songs & lyrics by Vanessa Daou
- Executive Producers Vanessa Daou & Craig Roseberry for Shifty Entertainment, LLC
- Additional Production, Recording, Engineering & Programming by Mike Degen/Stimulant Sound, NYC
- Pre-Mastering by Mike Degen/Stimulant Sound, NYC; Mastering by Jeff Lager
- Piano & keyboards by Wynne Bennett
- Guitar & steel Guitar by Stephen Ellis
- Saxaphone by Matt Hong
- Drums, bass & guitar by Anthony Johnson
- Music on MANIFESTO & ONCE IN A WHILE by Vanessa Daou & Kahari Mays
- Music on BLACK & WHITE by Vanessa Daou & Blake Robin a.k.a. Baron von Luxxury
- Music on CONSEQUENCES & HEART OF WAX by Vanessa Daou & Blank & Jones
- Music on LOVE LIVES IN THE DARK & THE HOOK by Vanessa Daou & Anthony Johnson
- Music on TRUE by Vanessa Daou & Ziad Doueiri
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