Keren Ann
Keren Ann
Keren Ann Zeidel, known professionally as Keren Ann, is a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, and engineer based largely in Paris, Tel Aviv, and New York City. She plays guitar, piano, and clarinet. She also engineers and writes choir and musical arrangements...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth10 March 1974
CountryIsrael
song distance writing
Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.
everyday trying mixtures
It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.
challenges facts matured
I like the fact that there is challenge.
song art real
The first thing about a song is that it has to be real, be lived; it has to be emotional, and melancholic. I don't mean sad. Melancholy is sort of a comfort. Melancholy has a sort of beauty to it. This attracts me to every other form of art...
music years looks
I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.
play favorite-places
I don't have a favorite place to play.
song jobs writing
You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.
song writing atmosphere
When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.
years play half
When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.
years different stories
So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.
opposites complete-opposites
I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.
although explore stories
If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.
moods recreate
It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.