KEREN ANN ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN TOUR FOR JUNE AOL SPINNER PREMIERES VIDEO FOR LEAD SINGLE
“MY NAME IS TROUBLE” FROM HER FORTHCOMING ALBUM “101” TO BE RELEASED MARCH 22 ON BLUE NOTE RECORDS
Singer Keren Ann has announced a North American tour for June in support of her forthcoming album 101, which will be released March 22 on EMI’s Blue Note Records in the U.S. The 14-date run will kick off with two NYC shows at the Bell House in Brooklyn (June 7) and the Bowery Ballroom in Manhattan (June 8). The tour will also make stops in Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, and Los Angeles. Keren Ann will also be performing at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia on April 17 in a special collaboration with ?uestlove of The Roots as part of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts. See full list of tour dates below.
AOL Spinner is premiering the video for the album’s lead single “My Name Is Trouble” today. The buoyant, danceable single signals the surprising yet entirely natural evolution of Keren Ann’s sound. 101 is a set of 10 new songs that was entirely produced, composed, arranged, and engineered by Keren Ann.
“I was looking to create a robotic yet feminine atmosphere with a modern choreography—one that I am able to follow not being the greatest dancer of all times,” says Keren Ann of the video. “The dress by Alexandre Vauthier is very important. The director, Benjamin Seroussi, has his own true sense of aesthetics. I wanted a blend of architecture and motion with a twist of a religious cult.”
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Keren Ann was born in Caesaria, Israel to a Javanese-Dutch mother and Russian-Israeli father. She was raised in Paris, but now shares her time between Paris and Tel Aviv when not on the road touring. She began captivating U.S. critics and audiences in 2004 with the stateside release of Not Going Anywhere, and proved that she was here to stay with 2005’s Nolita and 2007’s Keren Ann. The Los Angeles Times has written that “her music casts a spell,” while New York magazine has observed that on repeated listens, her music “starts to feel like something that’s always been embedded within your genetic code.”
And now, almost four years after her last album, Keren Ann is back with 101. Each song is a window into a world, like the windows of the apartment building opposite James Stewart’s in Rear Window. Each picture, lit by a different light, is a painting come to life, a painting in sound and words, telling a story.
There is also a new energy, a broader range, a sense of new ground broken. The voice reaches out more, but Keren Ann retains her enigmatic quality, her intimate bond with the listener, and the vignettes still mystify as much as they illuminate. Nothing is sacrificed. Ultimately 101 embodies what Keren Ann`s music is all about: the songs, the voice, the sound.
KEREN ANN TOUR DATES:
April 17 – Kimmel Center – Philadelphia, PA
June 7 – Bell House – Brooklyn, NY
June 8 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY
June 9 – ICA – Boston, MA
June 11 – The Warhol – Pittsburgh, PA
June 13 – Lincoln Hall – Chicago, IL
June 14 – Cedar Cultural Center – Minneapolis, MN
June 17 – Triple Door – Seattle, WA
June 18 – Biltmore Cabaret – Vancouver, BC
June 19 – Doug Fir Lounge – Portland, OR
June 21 – Yoshi’s – San Francisco, CA
June 23 – Casbah – San Diego, CA
June 24 – McCabes – Santa Monica, CA
June 25 – Luckman Fine Arts Complex – Los Angeles, CA
June 28 – Drake Hotel – Toronto, ONT