Keren Ann
Keren Ann
Keren Ann Zeidel, known professionally as Keren Ann, is a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, and engineer based largely in Paris, Tel Aviv, and New York City. She plays guitar, piano, and clarinet. She also engineers and writes choir and musical arrangements...
NationalityIsraeli
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth10 March 1974
CountryIsrael
new-york writing
I spend a lot of time writing in New York.
song writing atmosphere
When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.
song jobs writing
You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.
song distance writing
Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.
moods recreate
It's always a mixture of fiction and your own story. It's more I recreate atmospheres and moods through songs.
although explore stories
If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.
believe i-believe enough
I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.
opposites complete-opposites
I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.
years different stories
So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that.
home planes train
I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.
new-york nice home
I'm very attached to Paris because I have a base there and am also recording there, but New York is home to me when I'm in the U.S., because it's nice to have a bed to go back to.
israel france eleven
Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.
regret thinking sometimes
I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.
regret thinking very-good
I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.