Dom La Nena
Paris, Île-de-France, France | Established. Jan 01, 2014 | INDIE
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Full press review on the artist web site (click on title to visit) - Dom La Nena
Dom La Nena parle de ces chansons comme des constructions fragiles, comme des châteaux de cartes où chaque element a sa place. A l'écoute de ce disque on se fait auditeur provenant, faisant tout pour ne pas rompre cet equilibre irresistible. - France Inter
Dom La Nena : couisine eloignée de Lhasa ***
Un album qui respire l'authenticité, où chaque titre brille par sa subtilité et sa finesse. - Le Soleil
Sua voz suave envelopada por arranjos minimalistas e delicadas melodias, por vezes se assemhelando a cancoes de ninar resulta numa musica que ela mesma tem dificultade em identificar. - O Globo
Tout en souplesse, delicatesse et poesie, notre jeune interprete offre une premiere qui sied bien à notre climat rigoureux, puisqu'il offre une part d'aventures,d'évasion sur des rythmes bresiliens et espagnols avec violoncelle evidemment, piano, subtils enrobages de voix, percussions, xylophone et vibraphone.
Un soleil d'Argentine pour combattre la froidure. - Le Journal De Montréal
Dès le morceau d'ouverture , nous quitons la terre pour rejoindre le monde des anges, des étoiles ou de l'enfance.
Avec son premier album, la jeune chanteuse violoncelliste native de Porto Alegre réussit à transmettre les vibrations intimes des lieux où elle muri son imaginaire. - Mondomix
Melancholy Baby / Dom la nena
Ela is a warm, charming recording with a vague sense of melancholy. At times, the music sounds as if it were produced by a young Brian Wilson. - Wall Street Journal
Whispered Lyrics, Spooky Snippets, Old Frontiers Anew
"Her songs, with lyrics in Portuguese or Spanish, are quiet and lilting, often with her voice and an unassuming piano or acoustic guitar at their center, and she sings the lullabylike melodies with guileless delicacy, musing over unfulfilled longings and remembering her Brazilian heritage." - New York Times - USA
With A Passion For Her Cello, Dom La Nena Debuts Her Vocals
On her recently released debut album Ela, her cello shares the spotlight with her own voice, as well as piano and guitars. The end result is a sound that is both gentle and haunting. - NPR
Discography
Dom La Nena - Ela (2013 - Six Degrees) Distribution Wrasse Records / Universal
Dom La Nena & Rosemary Standley - Birds On A Wire (2014 - Zamora Productions)
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Bio
Remarkable things often begin at an early age, and so it was with Brazilian-born cellist and vocalist Dom La Nena, Six Degrees Records latest signing.
Born in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre in 1989, Dom started her musical exploration with the piano around age five. From there she became infatuated with the cello and realized very soon that she wanted to devote her life to the instrument.
Doms debut album, Ela, is a stunningly subtle and beautifully understated journey through, in her words, childhood and nostalgia. The thirteen songs feature her delicate voice and multi-tracked cello, supported by minimalist arrangements by Piers Faccini and Dom that feature interweaving layers of piano, guitars, harmonium, kora, xylophones, and vocals. For Dom, meeting Faccini was the catalyst for the creation of the Ela album.
Dom has performed as a cellist and toured with performers including the legendary French actress Jeanne Moreau and English actress and singer Jane Birkin. After returning in 2009 from an international tour performing with Birkin, Dom felt unsure as to how she should proceed on her musical path.
France has been good for the woman born Dominique Pinto. The family first moved there when Dom was eight while her father pursued a doctorate, returning to Brazil five years later. By that time Dom was steadily building her first steps towards a career in music, bolstered by two supportive parents. She wrote to Christine Walevska, an American cellist living in Buenos Aires, whose music she adored.
Soon after, although she was only thirteen years old, under the guidance of her new muse and with the consent of her parents, she moved to Argentina, where she continued her studies with Walevska and other teachers, before returning to Paris at the age of eighteen to further her musical career. Dom picked up the name La Nena during her time in Argentina. In South American Spanish, nena means girl and sometimes baby or child. Its a word that is often used as a term of endearment for a girl.
For years, either at her parents home or at her grandparents in Uruguay or during her adolescence in Buenos Aires, this is what she was called. Her song Buenos Aires, a duet with Brazilian singer Thiago Pethit, pays homage to her time in this city. It begins with a gorgeous piano that drives the melody before other instruments and voices in the characteristic fashion of the album add to the ensemble.
Like many of the songs on Ela, nostalgia reigns supreme. Voc also reminisces. Featuring French singer Camille on backing-vocals, the upbeat track is about playing pat-a-cakes as a youth. On the title song, Ela, Doms plucked cello creates a building tension.
Band Members : Dom La Nena (solo)
Instrumentation : Cello / Organ / Guitar / Percussion
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