About the record, John Payne writes:
"Kates' songs are inside/outside things, often ruminative tunes when played solo on piano and delivered in a soulful and artful yet refreshingly unmannered vocal style. With her small ensemble she lays into complexly structured pieces whose violin, cello and trombone ornaments bring a cabaretlike charm and mystique to the proceedings. The songs stop and start again, thoughts and impressions intrude; they accelerate and explode and collapse and fall to the floor to catch their breath and reassess. What she’s doing, you could say, is viewing scenarios from multiple angles ––the moods ebb and flow like a tempest in her mind, in her heart, in her soul. Naama Kates makes a pleasingly accessible music that tries to mask yet invariably spills over with raging passion and quirky intelligence and sheer spunky, idiosyncratic imagination. Her songs are like mini-films, never merely personal sentiments sung aloud but experiences in sound and word and energy that can take you to faraway places…and right back home again.”
-John Payne, Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, Bluefat Music
About her live show, Ricky Fitz writes:
"...every preconceived idea and judgement I had would be checked at the door with my bleeder. As soon as I prepared myself for an elongated emotional love ballad, Naama would look at her bassist/producer Cyrus Melchor, nod, and with one flick of the wrist completely change the tone to one of a short, angsty punk song. With every new song the pleasant "rug out from underneath you" musical surprises would continue... ....influences from everything from Bat For Lashes to Gogol Bordello. One of the most respectable parts was Naama's presence. Never up front stealing the show, but always distinctly heard. A dynamic I believe to be a dying breed..."
- Ricky Fitz, http://www.takearecord.com/
Hear some songs from the record at Naama's Official ReverbNation Page
Or hear and "see" some music at her Official Website.
- Lena
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