Norine Braun: Welcome
With her powerful voice and strong writing, this prolific indie singer/songwriter offers up 16 tracks including a cover of These Boots are Made for walking on her eighth full length album.
-Stuart Derdeyn Entertainment Editor The Province
In a style and sound reminiscent of the legendary Joni Mitchell, Norine Braun's Newest Release "Acoustically Inclined", once again proves that there are artists still out there that refuse to be pigeoned holed into one genre or the other, and therefore are able to offer their fans something fresh and exciting each time they record. "Acoustically Inclined" offers it listeners a number of Genres, performed with a brilliance and insight that is sure to delight all her present fans, while certainly making more along the way.
-John Vermilyea (Blues Underground Network)
Music is timeless- whether in how long a song can last in the popular conscious- or in when a musician’s career he or she is inspired to write or record that song to begin with. In Norine Braun’s (case), where the latter is concerned, she concedes “I was a late bloomer...I always wrote songs, but it was in my bedroom with my tape recorder, for myself. In terms of my going into a studio, putting money behind it and trying to grow, that wasn't until my early '30s...I had a lot of people saying to me 'Are you kidding? It's too late! Most people your age are hanging up your instrument.' I didn't listen. I have to do what I have to do.”
Perhaps making up for lost time, Braun’s impressive and prolific catalog of six studio albums recorded/released over the past few years includes ‘Evolution of the Blood Star,’ ‘Now and Zen,’ ‘Norine Braun and the Mood Swings,’ ‘Crow,’ ‘Miles to Go,’ and ‘Modern Anguish.’ Braun’s pool of musical influences, according to Progressiveworld.net, is “all over the musical map, stretching...her vocals into pop, rock, hip-hop, jazz, spoken-word, blues...you name it, she's got it covered.” Citing derivative influences that include Sade, Bjork, Blondie, kd lang, Patti Smith and Norah Jones, Braun’s musical bedrock is steeped in soul, with jazz, ambient pop and rock & roll laid overtop in a sound that Indie-Music.com has observed “has great depth, versatility, and provides a fresh alternative to pretty much anything you could get your hands on in the mainstream progressive rock world.”
The recipient of awards including the prestigious ‘Female Singer-Songwriter of the Year’ in the Jazz Category at the Independent L.A. Music Awards (2006), Braun, even as a newcomer, has dazzled her critics as “a rare find,” according to The Best Female Musicians Magazine. Ink19 Magazine, meanwhile, has observed that while “people throw the word eclectic around a lot these days...pop vocalist Norine Braun...earns that label.” While critical praise continues to roll in, looking to the future, what Braun feels most excited and energized by her new album, with the singer revealing that “Acoustically Inclined is my current recording project and 7th album to be released later this year, This album is acoustic and naked, showcasing my live solo singer-songwriter performances. My intention is to capture the essence of the song in its purest form, vocal and guitar which is my usual modus operandi. Following this album I would love to do a rich and textured down-tempo chill album. I am also researching a BC First Nation’s woman, Kocomnepeca, and hope to create an album themed around her life story. There is so much more I have yet to express, and if the creator is willing I shall proceed via this wonderful gift called music.” Keep up with Norine’s goings-on online here at www.norinebraun.com
-Jake Brown
Evolution of the Blood Star Voted #1 for 2008 on Outvoice
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