No Promises

Carla Bruni - No Promises

No Promises
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Artist: Carla Bruni
Edition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2008-02-19
Music Label: Downtown Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Those Dancing Days Are Gone
  2. Before the World Was Made
  3. Lady Weeping at the Crossroads
  4. I Felt My Life with Both My Hands
  5. Promises Like Pie-Crust
  6. Autumn
  7. If You Were Coming in the Fall
  8. I Went to Heaven
  9. Afternoon
  10. Ballade at Thirty-Five
  11. At Last the Secret Is Out

Music reviews of No Promises

Music Review: Beautiful Music
Rating: 5 Stars

"No Promises" is dynamite to me. I love all the songs, but I love Carla's sultry, sexy, intimate voice. She could sing the phone book and I'd buy it.
This is Carla's first venture in English to my knowledge. I have bought her two other Albums in French previously. I Speak no French but she sings in the universal language of love or l'amour.
Anyway, Carla is wonderful and I can't wait for her next release. I have an ipod play list for only Carla and it is labeled "Carla Bruni All."
I play it in bed at night and her voice and oh-so-intimate delivery is sooo soothing sweet that It sends me to dream land with 40 songs on shuffle-repeat.
We frolic with the angels in the heavens, Carla and I. Je t'adore mon cherie.
From your secret lover Coraggio Bon Soire

Description of No Promises

Italian-born/French-raised chanteuse Bruni has written a poignant record establishing her as an undeniably gorgeous new voice to American ears. With two previous records, heralded in her home of Europe, Bruni's current creation is her first English language album to hit US shores via Downtown records. Carla's fascination and appreciation of the language prompted her to make an album comprised of her favorite poems (from Emily Dickinson to WH Auden to William Butler Yeats), interpreting them into delicate and introspective songs. Profound, potent, and imbued with a delicate beauty.
"Come, let me sing into your ear," purrs Carla Bruni to open her second album, her French/Italian heritage betrayed in a pan-European accent that's as breathy and relaxing as a summer afternoon nap on the Riviera. Though the prospect of a former supermodel's career exploits is sometimes prettier than others (depends if you prefer the Project Runway pronouncements of Heidi Klum or the talk show/tabloid antics of Tyra Banks), Carla Bruni approaches music armed with something of a legitimate pedigree, both her parents having been musicians in their own right. Calling the album No Promises may reflect some intentional lowering of expectations for Bruni's experiment here, setting 11 reverently-chosen lyric poems by the likes of Emily Dickenson, W.B. Yeats, and Dorothy Parker to her own mellow, wispy music and pleasant voice. Where artists like Feist or Keren Ann use spare instrumentation and airy vocals to achieve delicacy and nuance, the compositions on No Promises seem to run together without much to distinguish one from another, and the result is neither offensive nor particularly inspirational. Maybe next time Carla Bruni will inject a little more fire into her belly and add some sparkle to her hushed soundscape. --Ben Heege

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