You & I

"It's Ala.Ni's voice that does all the wooing and cooing on her debut album ... Once you go beyond the voice, though, you can catch the stirrings of some interesting arrangements and intriguing patterns on the songs, especially when the singer combines quaint structural ideas rarely seen in mainstream pop with more delicate, tender musical contours. A grand solo entrance from a singer with much to offer".

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"Forestil dig (...) en slank, smuk, sort kvinde; en sang fra [Billie] Holidays univers; en lidt lysere vokal; (...) et smerteligt, skrattende og sønderrivende opdateret udtryk ... En ny - alt andet end effektjagende - (...) stjerne in spe på vokaljazzens, bluesmusikkens og singer-songwritingens nøgne himmel. Når Ala.Ni - bare ledsaget af en guitar, eventuelt en bas, en trompet, fingerknips og papkasse-trommen - synger lige så smerteligt smukke, helt enkle sange som Come to Me, Cherry Blossom eller Darkness at Noon, er overgivelse naturlig. Ala.Ni fremfører sine sange med en respektindgydende ægthed og ærlighed, som var de alle livsnødvendige ytringer. I den forstand er Ala.Ni en dirrende ener (om end hun i passager minder om vores egen Kira Skov)".

"Somewhere between Judy Garland and Julee Cruise, she is a west London-born, Paris-based former session singer of Grenadian extraction who harks back to a time when songbirds glided on gentle orchestral breezes. This assured debut is largely about a doomed love affair, a curio you didn't know you needed until it arrives".

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