No Promises | Carla Bruni | I LOVE this album!

No Promises | Carla Bruni | A gossamer grab-bag of European air.

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No Promises

	No Promises Carla Bruni Audiogram Canada, 2007 average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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The second album of French/Italian model-cum-chanteuse. Two years in the making, No Promises is a unique and personal interpretation of some of the greatest poets of the American and British traditions, including texts by Emily Dickenson and W. B. Yeats. Naive. 2007.

I LOVE this album!

I truly do not understand how anyone can give less than a 5 star rating for this album. I find it amazing that Carla Bruni took these poems and made them into intriguing, sexy songs. Her voice is so unique and I just cannot say enough about the greatness of "No Promises." When I've had a bad or stressful day, I put this album on and I am immediately calmed. I can't wait for her next album and hopefully she'll release another one in English. I'm extremely surprised that "No Promises" did not pick up as much attention in the U.S. as it deserved.

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A gossamer grab-bag of European air.

Since the focus of this column is music, I won't dwell on supermodel singer Carla Bruni's recent marriage to French president Nicolas Sarkozy, because it's irrelevant to her recorded output -- at least so far. No Promises is Bruni's second album, an all-English setting of poetry by such icons as Yeats, Auden, Dickinson, and Parker. Given the introspective nature of these lyrics, it's no surprise that the album is a gossamer grab-bag of European air. Bruni's intimate vocals are mated with classical guitar, harmonica, cello, bass, and light percussion. For those given to reflecting slowly over turns of phrase, No Promises promises a provocative soundtrack. For the rest who wouldn't know subtlety if it whacked `em upside the head, No Promises promises nothing -- and delivers the same.

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Tracks
Those Dancing Days Are Gone - Carla Bruni, Yeats, William Butl | Before the World Was Made - Carla Bruni, Yeats, William Butl | Lady Weeping at the Crossroads - Carla Bruni, Auden, Wystan Hugh | I Felt My Life with Both My Hands - Carla Bruni, Dickinson, Emily | Promises Like Pie-Crust - Carla Bruni, Rossetti, Christina | Autumn - Carla Bruni, DeLaMare, Walter | If You Were Coming in the Fall - Carla Bruni, Dickinson, Emily | I Went to Heaven - Carla Bruni, Dickinson, Emily | Afternoon - Carla Bruni, Parker, Dorothy | Ballade at Thirty-Five - Carla Bruni, Parker, Dorothy | At Last the Secret Is Out - Carla Bruni, Auden, Wystan Hugh

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