PRESS AND REVIEWS
Williedillon on Katell, quoting Esquire and LA Times:
KATELL KEINEG - A Welsh Breton who spends her time in Dublin and New York, Katell is a rare breed. Esquire Magazine described her Jet album as one of the greatest overlooked pop masterpieces of the decade. Her music is almost impossible to categorise. It's dramatic, exuberant and passionate. The Los Angeles Times summed it up brilliantly: "Keineg litters her lyrical tunes with Celtic, European, Arabic, African and Latin textures and imagery, and her lilting soprano voice combines the siren-like clarity of an Irish folk songstress with the sultry minimalism of a jazz chanteuse."
Source: williedillon
Austin Chronicle on Keineg:
Keineg, whose wispy voice falls somewhere between Alison Moyet and Paula Cole, made a brief splash a few years back cutting a couple of albums for Elektra and popping up at the Lillith Fair. Her second record, Jet, is one of those beauts that never really found anybody, perhaps because it was so genre-less that the record company folks didn't know what to do with it. (Mother Egan's, 10pm) -- Michael Bertin
# Source: Austin Chronicle
Review of a concert in Ireland, by sortedmagazine
Review: Musician Magazine
August 1997 - review for album "jet" - Big sounds, big ideas, big thrills. On her second album, Katell Keineg has the nerve to promise a cosmic experience and the skills to deliver. Though the sweetly graceful vocals echo such civilized folks as Joni Mitchell and Natalie Merchant, Keineg's friskier than either of 'em, and her knack for turning simple tunes into breathtaking epics can be flat-out dazzling. In other words: Wow!
Keineg makes lousy background music, because she can't be ignored. Consider "Smile", a standout among many stellar tracks. Beginning as an insistent whisper, it slowly builds to an electrifying, primal shriek chorus; meanwhile, the dense, finely detailed production (by Keineg, Eric Drew Feldman, and John Holbrook) reveals exciting facets with every listen. More than a well-crafted piece of product, Jet will intoxicate anyone who still believes pop music can transcend dreary reality.
# Source: Harmony Ridge
Facts - Magazines: Appeared at Mojo Rising: Issue 11, p8
Keineg review at SFGate Journal:
POP MUSIC Welsh Rarity
Katell Keineg defies facile categorization, and that's one of the reasons she's a solid comer in pop music. The Welsh-born singer-songwriter can manipulate her pure soprano voice from sweet ballads to bawdy rock. Fascinated by unlikely instrumentation, Keineg also writes some of the smartest lyrics around, as in the compelling ``Mother's Map'' on her second Elektra CD, ``Jet.'' She got her professional start as a teenager in New York and performed her music in Welsh with various bands before launching a solo career. Her sense of adventure was evident on her first CD, ``Seasons, Castles,'' and really soars on ``Jet.''
KATELL KEINEG, 8 p.m. Monday, Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell St., San Francisco, tickets $9, (415) 885-0750 ,
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Keineg on Los Angeles Times:
"Katell Keineg has the nerve to promise a cosmic experience and the skills to deliver. Though the sweetly graceful vocals echo such civilized folks as Joni Mitchell and Natalie Merchant, Keineg's friskier than either of 'em, and her knack for turning simple tunes into breathtaking epics can be flat-out dazzlin."
# Source: sin-e.com
Rolling Stone Magazine Review
Katell Keineg: What's the Only Thing Worse Than the End of Time? (Field Recording Co.)
There's a theory that certain musical frequencies affect people emotionally. Katell Keineg has found them. It's damn near impossible to listen to her earthy and ethereal voice without feeling the spirit move you. The Franco-Welsh (she sings in English, but old-world Europe oozes from her throaty croon and gracefully gangly limbs) singer/songwriter's latest effort, the EP What's the Only Thing Worse Than the End of Time?, is a brief testament to her power to permeate. The standouts are a chilling live version of Nick Drake's "River Man" (Keineg is especially powerful onstage) and the celebratory "Beautiful Day," which sounds like a chance meeting between a Sixties-pop melody line and a white girl on a Caribbean island. What's the Only Thing seems to embody both of those worlds, suggesting that Keineg's travels over the past five years, during which she was AWOL from the studio, helped her find a balance between her poetic roots and pop sensibility. If What's the Only Thing is any indication of what is to come from Keineg, prepare to be seriously hooked by her frequencies. (ROBIN AIGNER)
# Source: Rolling Stone
1997 - Magazines:
Hotpress 1997 - Recommended - top albums of the year
CMJ review of Jet:
http://prod1.cmj.com/articles/display_article.php?id=3586
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