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Norah Jones: The Fall

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Label: EMI Records
Released: 2009.11.17
Time:
 46:56
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Jacquire King
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.norahjones.com
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Purchase date: 2009.11.13
Price in €: 3,00





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[1] Chasing Pirates (N.Jones) - 2:40
[2] Even Though (N.Jones/J.Harris) - 3:52
[3] Light As a Feather (N.Jones/R.Adams) - 3:52
[4] Young Blood (N.Jones/M.Martin) - 3:38
[5] I Wouldn't Need You (N.Jones) - 3:30
[6] Waiting (N.Jones) - 3:31
[7] It's Gonna Be (N.Jones) - 3:11
[8] You've Ruined Me (N.Jones) - 2:45
[9] Back to Manhattan (N.Jones) - 4:09
[10] Stuck (N.Jones/W.Sheff) - 5:15
[11] December (N.Jones) - 3:05
[12] Tell Yer Mama (N.Jones/J.Harris/R.Julian) - 3:25
[13] Man of the Hour (N.Jones) - 2:56

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Norah Jones - Vocals, Piano, Artwork

Joey Waronker - Drums
James Gadson - Drums
James Poyser - Keyboards
Marc Ribot - Guitars
Smokey Hormel - Guitars

Jacquire King - Producer, Engineer
Autumn de Wilde - Photography

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2009 CD Blue Note EMI Music 
2009 CD Blue Note 99296
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2009 LP Blue Note 99286
2009 CD Angel 992862
2009 LP Angel 992861

The Fall is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Norah Jones.

Jones' official website has stated that she "has taken a new direction on the The Fall, experimenting with different sounds and a new set of collaborators, including Jacquire King, a noted producer and engineer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, and Modest Mouse among others. Jones enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, as well as her frequent partner Jesse Harris. King also helped Jones put together a new group of musicians to perform on the album, including drummers Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) and James Gadson (Bill Withers), keyboardist James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green), and guitarists Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) and Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer)". Jones has also revealed the cover artwork for the album, which features a portrait by photographer Autumn de Wilde.



With The Fall, Norah Jones completes the transition away from her smooth cabaret beginnings and toward a mellowly arty, modern singer/songwriter. Jones began this shift on 2007's Not Too Late, an album that gently rejected her tendencies for lulling, tasteful crooning, but The Fall is a stronger, more cohesive work, maintaining an elegantly dreamy state that's faithful to the crooner of Come Away with Me while feeling decidedly less classicist. Some of this could be attributed to Jones' choice of producer, Jacquire King, best-known for his work with Modest Mouse and Kings of Leon, but King hardly pushes Norah in a rock direction; The Fall does bear some mild echoes of Fiona Apple or Aimee Mann in ballad mode, but its arrangements never call attention to themselves, the way that some Jon O'Brien productions do. Instead, the focus is always on Jones' voice and songs, which are once again all originals, sometimes composed in conjunction with collaborators including her longtime colleagues Jesse Harris, Ryan Adams, and Will Sheff of Okkervil River. In addition to King's pedigree, the latter two co-writers suggest a slight indie bent to Jones' direction, which isn't an inaccurate impression -- there's certainly a late-night N.Y.C. vibe to these songs -- but it's easy to overstate the artiness of The Fall, especially when compared to Not Too Late, which wore its ragged ambitions proudly. Here, Jones ties up loose ends, unafraid to sound smooth or sultry, letting in just enough dissonance and discord to give this dimension, creating a subtle but rather extraordinary low-key record that functions as a piece of mood music but lingers longer, thanks to its finely crafted songs.

Stephen Thomas Erlewine - All Music Guide


Seitdem Norah Jones 2002 ihre Karriere begann, hat sie weltweit 36 Millionen Alben verkauft. Ihre drei bisherigen Studioalben - das achtmal mit einem Grammy geehrte Debüt Come Away With Me (2002), Feels Like Home (2004) und Not Too Late (2007) - führten allesamt die Billboard-Charts in den USA an und belegten auch in vielen anderen Ländern Platz eins der Verkaufslisten. Alle drei Alben erlangten Multiplatin-Status, Come Away With Me erhielt darüber hinaus sogar die seltene Diamant-Auszeichnung. „Für dieses Album hatte ich einen ganz bestimmten Sound in meinem Kopf“, sagt Norah Jones. „Ich wollte, dass die Grooves präsenter und kräftiger sind. Und ich wollte vor allem auch einfach mal etwas ganz anderes machen – ich hänge nun schon seit vielen Jahren mit den gleichen Musikern herum, und ich hielt die Zeit für gekommen, einmal mit anderen Leuten zu arbeiten und ein wenig zu experimentieren.“ Das Ergebnis dieser Experimente heißt The Fall. Die augenfälligste Veränderung offenbart sich in der langen Liste neuer Kreativpartner. Mit Hilfe des Produzenten Jacquire King, der unter anderem mit Kings of Leon, Modest Mouse und Tom Waits gearbeitet hat, stellte Jones eine neue Gruppe von Musikern zusammen, darunter die Drummer Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M.) und James Gadson (Bill Withers), der Keyboarder James Poyser (Erykah Badu, Al Green) sowie die Gitarristen Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello) und Smokey Hormel (Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer). Jones tat sich für The Fall auch mit einigen bemerkenswerten Songwritern zusammen, darunter Ryan Adams und Will Sheff von Okkervil River sowie ihr langjähriger Co-Autor Jesse Harris. Diese Veränderungen führten zu dem erfrischend anderem, warmen und vollen Sound von The Fall. Unverkennbares Hauptmerkmal bleibt - vom forschen Rockrhythmus bei „Stuck“ bis hin zu einer intimen Ballade wie „Back To Manhattan“ - aber auch beim neuen Album die unverkennbare und ausdrucksstarke Stimme von Norah Jones.

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