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NOT GOING ANYWHERE
(Metro Blue/Blue Note)
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You could consider 30-year-old Keren Ann Zeidel the French Joni Mitchell: born in Israel but bred in Paris, this singer-songwriter fills her third album (and English-language debut) with delicately plucked acoustic guitars accompanied by tasteful strings and little splashes of restrained jazz percussion over which she sings searching, sinuous melodies in an airy voice that conceals a certain world-weariness. You could also see Keren Ann as the goth Joni Mitchell: she appears on the album’s cover in profile — lank, dark hair falling over her bared shoulder — and looking toward the sky in seeming anticipation of instructions from a flaming unicorn or a winged fairy. Open the CD and you’ll find her posing as a fair maiden dressed in white, lying as if she were dead against a black backdrop. "I won’t go anywhere, so give my love to everyone," she sings on the pensive title track; "Will you love me ‘til you’re bones?" she asks in "Road Bin." However you view her, she’s one of the more compelling of the new breed of neo-classical singer-songwriters that big labels have been marketing hard in the wake of Norah Jones’s success. (Keren Ann appears this Wednesday, October 13, upstairs at the Middle East, 472 Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square, with Will Champlin, Francis Kim, and Kevin So; call 617-864-EAST.)
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