Sonya Kahn - New Beginning (USA)
Name: Sonya Kahn
Album: New Beginning
Released: 2007
Website: http://www.sonyakahn.com/
Favourite Song: Party Song (Track 7)
So, while listening to the album that really is beginning to remind me of the hollywood starlets who are gracing the music scene as I type, I am only imagining that as long as Miss Sonya has a good publicist, it doesn’t matter WHAT the album sounds like, as long as she looks the part. But I’d be selling the artist short, which isn’t fair. For one thing, the first website I go to to read up on what everyone else thinks of her? Sonya is a concert pianist. You don’t see that a lot with pop stars. Someone who I can very honestly vouch for that will be able to read music. This makes it exciting.
CD Baby (I get tired of Myspace every so often) is listing alternative, rock/pop and “created by a concert pianist.” The photos in the liner notes don’t disagree, as there is a photo of Sonya sitting at a piano. Two songs in, however, reveal little of the classical piano I had grown to… tolerate in the eight years I had played in my younger years. The more the album plays, the more I hear piano/keyboards and the more I believe that Sonya Kahn is definitely a musician in it’s truest definition.
The diversity in New Beginning is… astounding. Everything sort of sounds like something I would hear on the radio, which would prove Sonya’s commericial pull. The pretty shocking thing is each song I could think of a different radio station to play it. Some would play on the rock & roll stations. Some on the adult contemporary. And most of them will fit the top 40 playlist requirements.
I’m off on a road trip soon. And this is one album that will be making the trip with me. Considering my car doesn’t have the spiffy feature of being an mp3 player, nor does it play mp3 cd’s (my mom’s car does though) I do enjoy the fact that New Beginning is also 13 full tracks, as opposed to some 6 track albums. Not that there’s anything WRONG with it, but 13 songs makes for less cd changes to be necessary, and while driving at 140km/h down a highway, it’s best to not attempt it.
