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![Make You Love [Daou Records/EMI, France], 2000](../images/make_you_love.jpg "Make You Love [Daou Records/EMI, France], 2000")
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![Head Music [Columbia Records], 1992](../images/head_music_cd.jpg "Head Music [Columbia Records], 1992")
Top row: Joe Sent Me, Make You Love, Dear John Coltrane Bottom row: Slow to Burn, Zipless, Head Music "Electronica, smooth jazz, drum-and-bass. Poet, chanteuse, painter. Vanessa Daou is one artist who thrives on not being pigeonholed. The New Yorker returns with the self-produced Joe Sent Me, her first album since 2001's Make You Love. The absinthe-inspired trance of Daou's vocals is married to the rhythmic typewriter on "Hurricanes," where she steps forth as the sultriest person at a beat cafe. "Black & White" has a constant nightclub piano tinkering in the background that suits her breathless singing in a higher pitch. On the title track, Daou seizes listeners with her chiming "strange days" over the interlacing of jazz and electronica. Continuing to morph her artistic approach with minimalism and spoken word, Joe Sent Me is a comeback for Daou that ought to be celebrated. Daou's sixth solo album is currently available on daourecords.com before its wide release." Windy City Times Best Of 2008 - "Sensual and poetic texts, languorous electro-jazz of an almost palpable softness, Joe Sent Me feel is a small marvel in its genre." Discordance, France "If Louis Malle were alive and making films, this would be the soundtrack. I am instantly transported to the streets of Paris and Jeanne Moreau is walking in the rain whispering je t'aime...je t'aime..." Collin Kelley: Modern Confessional "Gorgeous & strangely intimate..." Jonny Mugwump & the Exotic Pylon, Resonance 104.4 FM, UK "Vanessa Daou's Jazz an Pop make an exhilarating mix... Built on piano, synthesizers and Daou's mesmerizing, Billie Holiday-like vocals, Zipless strikes an exquisite balance between pop and jazz by weaving together the strengths of both styles. ... The music conjures up the cool mood of an urban nightscape." TIME Magazine "On her fourth solo album, [Vanessa Daou] continues to follow the beat of her own drum, bucking the norm for her own artistic integrity. Drawing from electronic, pop, and jazz, Make You Love drips with romance, sensuality, and much love" Billboard "Fusing jazz, pop, dance grooves, and sexually explicit lyrics, Vanessa Daou may be one of the most daring new artists of the millennium. Billboard/All Music Guide "Card-carrying members of the club community surely remember the Daou's genre-defying debut, 1992's Head Music (Columbia), and its single "Surrender Yourself," which topped the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. Such subsequent singles as "Give Myself to You" and "Are You Satisfied?," both on Tribal, proved the Daou was on a serious mission: to rethink the parameters of contemporary rhythm-based music." Billboard "The arrangements on her new album Make You Love are soft-core trip-hop while her sublime hooks and refrains will make the best songwriters sit up and take notice. But it's really in her softly seductive vocals and lyrics that Ms. Daou really shines. Her subliminal psycho-sexual innuendoes are not for the faint of heart but they take you where you want to go - to that turned-on state of musical nirvana. One listen and it's obvious Ms. Daou is a hopeless romantic in love with life." mwe3 "Since her 1994 debut, "Zipless" Vanessa Daou's songs have personified sensuality. That steamy first CD is almost a sexual companion to this new release; they're equally the epitome of late-night bedroom music. ... Daou's breathy, half-spoken vocals are soulful as always." Bay Windows "Daou's breathy vocals are perfect for this and other songs, conveying an intimacy that perfectly matches the words. She could just as easily be lying in bed with a lover, singing her desires to them, as recording the song in a studio." laurahird.com "[V]isitors to Dawsonscreekcds.com can create a custom album from more than 50 selections, including cuts from singer/songwriter Aimee Mann, jazzy electronic dance diva Vanessa Daou..." MTV "Daou's rolling drum mixes and incisive lyrics defy categorization... Daou bounces between jazz and trance music, equalizing genres... Her voice can sound like Fiona Apple without the bitterness, and then turn breathy like an old-school diva. ... This is sexy, volatile stuff." Daily Bruin "Dear John Coltrane is one of the most soothing albums to come along recently. It's very relaxing due to its ambient sound which mixes guitars, saxophones, acoustic pianos, and keyboards. Vanessa's phantom-like voice ... sounds like an ancestral voice quietly calling you back to a time long past." Technique "Part R&B, part spoken word, Vanessa's breathy but strong voice compliments her prose in this shimmering but lucid tribute to the famed jazz legend. ... closer to a Sade album than a dance one. ... an open letter to keep reading over and over until every comma and pause is savored and memorized." Mixer "Dear John Coltrane is a sensual ode and tribute to the great man as only Daou could do." VICE Magazine References to John Coltrane in Popular Culture from Answers.com All music gude: similar albums music.com "Every month, five of our music programmers choose their ten favorite albums..." KCRW "Being the groundbreaking artist that she is, Vanessa was one of the first artists to sell merchandise through her Web site, where this spectacular was initially available. Also she beat Madonna and Kylie Minogue to the electronic break-through punch with this collection. ... Daou collaborated with French hunk Etienne Daho reworking "Make Believe" on his album Corps et Arms, making her a sensation in France. " Windy City Times "Vanessa Daou sounds even more dynamic in this setting. Vanessa Daou has a voice like a feather that literally floats off into the crisp night air..." Answers.com "[Vanessa's] smoky whisper is vulnerability itself, pure late-night allure that is chilling because it acts as a spectral knife-edge, both empowering and dangerous." Music.com "Vanessa Daou's breathy, intimate vocals stride clear across the jazz-inflected dance-pop of Slow to Burn... Funky and ethereal, dreamy and articulate, Daou's flow is embellished by the deft, insinuating rhythms of the music" VIBE "Combining elements of jazz, blues, and alternative, Vanessa Daou has emerged as one of the most musical and provocative vocalists on the pop scene." KCRW "Vanessa Daou's Jazz an Pop make an exhilarating mix... Built on piano, synthesizers and Daou's mesmerizing, Billie Holiday-like vocals, Zipless strikes an exquisite balance between pop and jazz by weaving together the strengths of both styles. ... The music conjures up the cool mood of an urban nightscape." TIME Magazine "Zipless is the poetry of Erica Jong set to music... a breathtaking trip that can barely contain its own sensuality." All Music Guide "Pleasure" and "pain"-two words that describe the process of gathering participants for our sex panel. ... Once we assembled our seven fearless panelists-Andre Benjamin... Nona Hendryx... vibeologist Roy Ayers; Soopaman Luva Redman; Luke Campbell, ex-leader of 2 Live Crew and host of the TV prog ram Luke's Peep Show; saxophonist James Carter; and sultry vocalist Vanessa Daou..." VIBE "We here at Slant Magazine believe that there aren't enough lists. So we've decided to create another one. "Vital Pop" is a list of 50 of the most essential pop albums..." Slant Magazine "Voice an rhythm move past each other with the formalized grace of ballet. [The band creates] darkly ethereal shapeless lullabies, while Vanessa Daou whispers into the mike." The New York Times, Sunday Arts & Lesiure "The most intriguing feature of this recording is singer Vanessa Daou. She may very well be the first jazz-rock-fusion singer I've heard. ... exquisite phrasing and choice of tones by Vanessa..." New York Daily News "[T]heir music is reminiscent of the "hieroglyphics" of graffiti. It's incredibly beautiful music that won't be accessible to everyone just because it junks cliches in the effort to forge a new language. It's distinctly urban, drawing from disparate sources (jazz, rock, House) to form a whole, but allowing none of the seams to show." The Village View "Imagine Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell on a date, entering a folk club only to discover its turned into an avant-garde underground club. Jazz, dance, folk and rock mingle and become indistinguishable [Vanessa] Daou merges diverse musical styles and comes up with an album easier to listen to than categorize." URB |
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