ALBUM:
Kenni
TAYLOR USED:
810
SONG CLIPS:
A Thousand Heartland Acres
28k | 56K
Carry Me Home
28k | 56K
CONTACT INFO:
Noonday Moon Productions
760 Market Street,
Ste 315
San Francisco, CA 94102
E-mail:
mail @kenni .com
Web:
www. kenni .com
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Kenni, the radiant debut from San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Kenni, flows like a warm
natural spring from her soul. Feinberg's
melodic voice has a sweet, beautiful ache, a nakedness, a floating urgency,
and is complemented wonderfully by Andrew Freeman's tasteful acoustic licks,
Lance H. Inouye's sweetly trickling piano accompaniment, and Kenni's own
buoyant harmonies. Violin and harmonica tinge several tracks with country
and blues strokes. Above all, Kenni truly inhabits the poetic imagery of
her lyrics, breathing into them what feels like real-time vulnerability. The
expressive contours of her vocals call to mind the phrasing of Jonatha
Brooke, whom Kenni credits as an inspiration and mentor. Her website also
features links to the sites of such other influences as Susan Werner,
Gillian Welch, "Patties" Griffin and Larkin, Livingston Taylor, and Chris
Whitley.
Kenni came to the Bay area from the New England folk circuit, where she
had performed as half of the contemporary folk duo Back to Back. A
California native and Harvard University alum, Kenni worked as a legal
researcher while attending Boston's Berklee School of music, where she
studied songwriting, arranging, and music production. She won Berklee's
Annual Songwriting Competition in 1996 and 1997, and took an award in the
1996 Eudora Welty Songwriting Competition. She founded the fledgling music
publishing company, Noonday Moon Music, and released Kenni on her Noonday
Moon Productions label. Four of her songs appeared in the soundtrack of Out
of Season, an independent film released nationwide in the summer of 1999.
"After nearly three years with my 810," Kenni says, "I'm still excited
every time I take it out of the case. It's a wonderful instrument in every
context."
"Kenni is one of the strongest writers I have seen…a major talent…. She will go far."
—Pat Pattison,
columnist for Performing Songwriter magazine and author of Writing Better Lyrics
"…something new and different…great to listen to."
— Sonja Mortensen,
WERS Boston
"…bright, hard-working, and gifted…"
— Richard Evans,
Grammy-winning arranger
"…a gifted lyricist…"
— Jack Perricone,
Chairman, Berklee Department of Songwriting
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