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1994
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Noa releases the
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- Noa (11 tracks)
1. "I Don't Know" (4.25)
2. "Wildflower" (4.16)
3. "Mishaela" (3.06)
4. "Path to Follow" (3.11)
5. "Child of Man" (4.26)
6. "Eye Opener" (3.19)
7. "Lady Night" (2.26)
8. "Uri" (Barren) (3.57)
9. "It's Obvious" (2.53)
10. "Desire" (2.41)
11. "Ave Maria" (4.22)
(CD GED24619, France, 1994, Geffen)
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"Noa", Noa's first international album, was released in, 1994 after the release of "Achinoam Nini and Gil Dor" ,1993. However, it was recorded earlier, so from a creative (as opposed to chronological) stance, it comes first. Noa&Gil first encounter with Pat Metheny, the legendary jazz guitarist who produced the album, happened right after our debut at the "Cinemateque". Gil called Pat that very night. They had met years earlier at the "Berklee School of Music" in Boston, and later in Israel. Gil, who was the Academic Director of the "Rimon School of Music" in Ramat-Hasharon for many years, invited Pat to do a master class there during his concert tour of Israel in, 1988 and they quickly became friends.
To make a long fairy-tale short, Pat agreed to meet Noa in NY (a moment of weakness he regrets to this day :-) ), listened to the material and decided to produce the album, thus risking his reputation for two weird musicians from Israel. Pat did an incredible thing for Noa. He produced the album in the best studios in NYC, with the best musicians he knew (Steve Rodby on acoustic bass and Lyle Mays on piano, long time members of the Pat Metheny Group), long before the record contract was finalized.
Gil and Noa wrote and arranged a whole bunch of new songs for the album, rehearsed very briefly with the musicians (six hours, to be exact), and recorded the whole thing in four days at the "Power Station" in NY. Gil, Steve, Lyle and Noa played live, all together in one room. Later Lyle added lots of his beautiful original sounds on additional tracks, and Pat called in Steve Ferrone to do a bit of drums and Luis Conte to play percussion. Bill Evans contributed a sax outro on "Desire", Danny Gottlieb played on "Wildflower"and Gil Goldstein graced "Uri" with a few tasteful notes on accordion. Clearly, Pat’s production approach was very minimalistic and non-intrusive, allowing Gil and Noa maximum creative space. Although the Hebrew songs "Mishaela", "Uri" and "Pokeach" were included in this album the majority of songs are in English.
© (info
by www.noasmusic.com )
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- Noa (11 tracks)
(CD MVCG 151, Jap., 1994, MCA Victor, promo sample 1st
edition)
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Credits:
Dan Gottlieb - Percussion
David Sholemson - Compilation Producer
Dennis Keeley - Photography
Gil Dor - Arranger, Guitar, Vocals (Background)
Gil Goldstein - Accordion
Kevin Reagan - Art Direction, Design
Konrad Strauss - Mastering
Luis Conte - Percussion
Lyle Mays - Keyboards, Piano
Noa - Main Performer, Vocals
Pat Metheny - Producer, Vocals (Background)
Rob Eaton - Engineer, Mixing, Vocals (Background)
Steve Ferrone - Drums
Steve Rodby - Bass, Producer, Vocals (Background
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CHOOSY US PRODUCER PICKS ACHINOAM NINI FOR A SHOT AT STARDOM
Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem
Author: Tirzah Agassi
Date: Dec 25, 1992
Abstract (Document Summary)
Singer/songwriter Achinoam Nini is about to make her American debut album with the financial and musical backing of Grammy Award-winning jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. She plans to include a Hebrew song and a tune from a book of traditional Yemenite ceremonial songs.
"On the record I'll sing primarily in English, but there will be a Hebrew song and there will be Hebrew laced throughout the songs. Also, I'm taking one Yemenite tune from the Diwan {book of traditional Yemenite ceremonial songs} that I know from childhood. I've written English lyrics, but I'm doing my best to sing it in a Yemenite style."
When he started working with [Nini], [Gil Dor] decided to introduce her to Metheny. The meeting finally occurred a year ago during one of Nini's trips to the US to see her family.
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