Singer/songwriter Keren Ann Zeidel, who records under the name Keren Ann, was born in Israel in 1974 to a Dutch-Javanese mother and a Russian-Israeli father. She was nine when her parents bought her a guitar, on which she learned to play songs by Joni Mitchell and Serge Gainsbourg. Zeidel and her family lived in Israel and Holland before settling in Paris, France, when she was 11.

Keren Ann Zeidel是一位創(chuàng)作型歌手，藝名凱倫·安。她1974年出生于以色列，父親具有俄羅斯和以色列血統(tǒng)，母親則是荷蘭—爪哇混血。在她9歲的時候，父母給她買了一把吉他，由此她學會了用這把吉他演奏瓊尼·米歇爾和塞爾日·蓋恩斯布爾的歌曲。Zeidel和家人先后在以色列和荷蘭生活過，她11歲那年，全家搬到了法國巴黎定居。

In the 1990s Zeidel met musician/arranger Benjamin Biolay, with whom she would form a fruitful partnership. She released her first album La Biographie DeLuka Philipsen in 2000. In 2003, Zeidel released her first English album, Not Going Anywhere. The same year, she founded the duet Lady & Bird with Bang Gang's Bardi Johansson and their first album came out in October 2003.

上世紀九十年代，Zeidel與音樂家兼編曲本杰明·比奧雷結識，兩人的合作后來產生了豐碩的成果。Zeidel于2000年推出了首張專輯《La Biographie De Luka Philipsen》。2003年，她的第一張英文歌曲專輯《Not Going Anywhere》問世；同年，她與Bang Gang樂隊的Bardi Johansson合作建立了雙人組合Lady & Bird，這個組合在2003年10月推出了第一張專輯。

Not Going Anywhere sees Zeidel operating in the same hushed tones as her previous albums and once again collaborating with Benjamin Biolay. While Zeidel has been compared to Dido and Portishead in the past, few would make similar comparisons this time around as trip-hop vibes really appear only on the playful "Sailor & Widow." Otherwise, the pace is held steady around 20 BPM and more frequently there are no beats at all. Instead, Zeidel frolics in a whispery, moody genre that might be appropriately labeled neo-folk, late-night lullaby. On the somewhat unsettling songs "End of May" and "Right Now & Right Here," Zeidel's voice is a dead-ringer for Lisa Germano, and since the music mostly consists of quietly strummed acoustic guitars, pianos, and violins, the music seems equally Germano-esque. Lush, minimal, and always gentle, Not Going Anywhere reaffirms Zeidel's gorgeous voice and should be a soundtrack for the hippest coffeehouses around the globe.

專輯《Not Going Anywhere》是Zeidel與本杰明·比奧雷又一次合作的成果，延用了前幾張專輯一貫的安靜曲風。過去人們常常拿Zeidel和蒂朵或波提斯海德樂隊相比較，然而這張專輯卻無法讓人產生同樣的聯想，因為整張專輯中只有一首俏皮的《Sailor & Widow》真正顯現了迷幻舞曲的氛圍；除此之外，歌曲的節(jié)拍穩(wěn)定在每分鐘20拍左右；更多時候甚至根本不存在節(jié)拍，而是采取沉郁的曲風，低聲細語般的演唱，將其歸類為新民謠搖籃曲可能更恰當?！?/span>End of May》和《Right Now & Right Here》這兩首歌多少有些令人不安，Zeidel的聲音簡直是莉薩·格馬諾的翻版；配樂主要由木吉他、鋼琴和小提琴演奏，那安靜的旋律同樣是典型的格瑪諾風格。專輯《Not Going Anywhere》層次豐富、低吟淺唱，再次凸顯了Zeidel的美妙聲線，適合作為世界各地最時尚咖啡館的背景音樂。

（China.org.cn 李瀟 譯）