POP//SNEAK PEEK: DUBLINER'S NEW MUSICAL LANGUAGE.Dublin's whimsical Katell Keineg Katell Keineg (born February 1965), is a Breton-Welsh singer-songwriter, based in Dublin and New York. Early life Born in Brittany and raised in Cardiff, Wales, Katell Keineg is the second child and only daughter of Breton poet and playwright Paol Keineg and his wife, says her songs often begin with a phrase and then grow into something bigger. ``With me, the music is in the words,'' she explained. ``I try not to separate them. I get the tune out of the words and add more music afterwards. The initial melody comes from the lyrics themselves.'' The songs on Keineg's just-released sophomore effort, ``Jet'' (Elektra), also act as a backdrop for her adventurous vocal style, which invokes textures and moods. The disc was co-produced by Keineg, Pere père n. 1. Used after a man's surname to distinguish a father from a son: Dumas père primarily wrote novels, while dramas occupied Dumas fils. 2. Ubu/Frank Black producer Eric Drew Feldman Eric Drew Feldman is an American keyboard and bass guitar player. Feldman has worked with Captain Beefheart, Snakefinger, The Residents, Pere Ubu, Katell Keineg, Frank Black, The Polyphonic Spree, Charlotte Hatherley Custard, and PJ Harvey. (also a member of PJ Harvey's band) and John Holbrook (who engineered Natalie Merchant's ``Tigerlily'' album). ``We all have very different musical perspectives,'' said Keineg, who appears July 30 at the Troubadour troubadour One of a class of lyric poets and poet-musicians, often of knightly rank, that flourished from the 11th through the 13th century, chiefly in Provence and other regions of southern France, northern Spain, and northern Italy. in West Hollywood. ``It was very spontaneous, and everything sort of got thrown into the soup.'' Keineg grew up in Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. and Brittany and lives in Dublin. She spent time as a teen-ager in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , where she cut her teeth performing acoustic sets at East Village cafes. ``I've played in every conceivable kind of venue,'' she said. ``I've done my own stuff in the Welsh language, played in a lot of different bands, then I started getting my own solo thing together.'' Keineg's 1994 debut album was titled ``O Seasons, O Castles.'' Music of the Net Online media critic Jon Katz is convinced it will be many years before high-quality music delivery will be widely available on the Internet. ``Very few people in this country have equipment of the type needed to send and receive music comparable to the CD you buy,'' he said. ``Web sites are great promotional devices for the labels. But I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. anybody that has equipment of that sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. . It will be at least a generation before people have that kind of stuff.'' In his new book, ``Media Rants: Postpolitics in the Digital Nation'' (HardWired; $13.95), the New York-based Katz argues the Net is mostly about community rather than technology. ``It's going to be very difficult to control the Web,'' he said. ``It has become an anti-censorship source. The music some stores refuse to carry will be available that way. The Net is a social and political force.'' Katz once drew heat when he dubbed murdered rapper Tupac Shakur a tragic hero in an online column for HotWired. ``Rap is incredibly controversial,'' Katz said. ``And the Web is a middle-class white culture. There was this tremendous surge of hostility to that piece.'' It's all right Two members of Elvis Presley's first band, the Blue Moon Boys, have recorded a new album with guest stars Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, Ron Wood, Joe Ely and others. Scotty Moore (guitar) and D.J. Fontana (drums) are still in fine form on ``All the King's Men'' (Sweetfish), due Aug. 12. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: Katell Keineg, who has sung in both English and Welsh
English and Welsh is the title of J. R. R. Tolkien's valedictory address to the University of Oxford of 1955, explaining the origin of the word "Welsh". , just released her second album. |
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