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Transient | 
| Artist: Gaelle
Label: Naked Music
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  46 reviews
Sales Rank: 119088
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.3
MPN: 804223001727
UPC: 804223001727
EAN: 0804223001727
ASIN: B0006B97MU
Release Date: November 16, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Falling | | • | Parkway | | • | Give It Back | | • | Fade Away | | • | Haiti (Interlude) | | • | Love You More | | • | Repetition | | • | Shape Shifting | | • | Transient | | • | Rain | | • | Separete Rooms | | • | Moonsglow |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 46
 Gaelle's Transient is definitely worth a look February 15, 2005
Ron Ron (Chicago, IL)
36 out of 42 found this review helpful
Gaelle's CD started off with a lot of promise. The first song "Falling" is a great song. It features a latin-style beat with well placed guitar and piano melodies. However, "Parkway" was a total turn off. It sounded like something I heard before. It sounded like the stuff I was trying to avoid. It's typical R&B. I'm totally sick of it and it rears its ugly head here 2 times. I'm sure lots of women would like the song "Parkway", but it wasn't something that I was expecting from a Naked Music artist. That's why I buy Naked Music. To escape the clutches of commercial sounding songs. And that's what I got here 2 times. That isn't to say that this a bad CD because ut's quite good. However, as I said, the typical R&B sounding songs appear much more than I would like.
"Give it back" sounds okay, but it didn't catch on with me. As her vocals don't sound as good here with some of the other songs.
"Fade Away" is a cool song. It's nice and chill.
"Love you more" is a good song. With catchy song with a nice melody.
"Repetition" is okay, but it sounds like one of those typical R&B songs
"Shape Shifting" doesn't really sound like a song, it sounds more like an interlude.
"Transient" has a nice chill mood. I like this one.
"Rain" is another good one. It kind of sounds like an Everything But the Girl song. Filled with a downtempo house beat. I really liked this one.
""Separate Rooms" is another good song. Probably my second favorite. This is a song with a haunting electronic beat.
Gaelle has been featured on Ananda Project's song "Cascade of Colors", which I absolutely loved. So I was already somewhat familiar with her. This CD is pretty good overall and I would recommend it for those who like slow, downtempo like songs.
Intriguing October 30, 2005
Peace Brotha (Ohio, United States)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
If mixing 80's vibes with ambient and adding introspective lyrics is your cup of tea, this is the one for you.
Gaelle's Transient continues Naked Music's latest trend of going retro with some 80's effects. I don't mean the scratches and some of the more dated-sounding effects ... but somehow this album sounds like one of the best smooth recordings from 1985 that you never heard. Yet it remains throughly modern with blissfully sparse production that allows the unique chord structures to stand out. Gaelle's quiet yet authoritative voice -- a butterscotch alto -- is a perfect match for the downtempo mood that is occasionally spiced with flashes of house. No ad-libs, no acrobatics ... and none are needed.
The lyrics are perfectly suited to this release; but different than what we're used to from Naked Music in that they are somewhat dark and not immediately uplifting. Some would even say that certain songs are depressing because of the subject matter, so don't expect the light, romantic touch of Aya or Blue Six here.
Transient is a solid effort and worthy of 4 stars.
 A Beautiful Album.... February 20, 2005
Chillin (Atlanta, GA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Gaelle's Transient is one of the most beautiful albums I've heard in a very long time. I been listening to it from beginning to end nonstop. It's a real good nighttime album. The album has great songwriting and production...and most of all...it's something different. Not your typical RnB. It's RnB, electronica, chillout, house...all in one. Nice little mix. The live instruments in the album balances out the electronic sounds. I like all the songs, but "Falling" (#1) is the money-maker. What a perfect way to start an album. The title track "Transient", "Repetition", "Fade Away" are also great standout tracks. But the whole thing is beautiful...that's the best way to describe it. I'm planning to buy my girlfriend a copy of this for her birthday, I think she'll love it. If you like the "Best of Sade" album, then you should have no problem getting into this. This is not your typical "trying to be mainstream" type of music. Gaelle just wanna be cool with you, make you feel good...and her album did the job. Please get the album. You will not regret it. You need something different to listen to anyway.
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Raindancing with Gaelle... January 30, 2008
Nse Ette (Lagos, Nigeria)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
"Transient" is Gaelle's amazing debut and stylistically, she reminds me a bit of Amel larrieux or Goapelle. With roots in dance music, the CD is a dazzlingly eclectic delight. It manages to sound both retro and futuristic at the same time.
From the stunning downtempo, electronic jazzy soul sound of "Parkway" (a wicked tale of a spurned one-night-stand's revenge, sung in a lower register; "Fatal attraction" set to music), the upbeat R&B "Give it back" (pianos sprinkled on a bubbling, razor sharp bassline), the haunting yet shimmery title track "Transient" (with deep, prayerful lyrics and sweeping strings), the sparkly echoing "Repetition" (which changes tempo and transforms into a lovely dance song in the final 2 minutes), and the latin tinged guitar drenched pair of "Falling" and the instrumental "Haiti" (alluding to her Haitian roots), the album is a sonic kaleidoscope.
My favourite is the aptly titled "Rain", an echoey club number with sparse, repetitive lyrics, tinkling pianos and sprinkled with horns. It's like dancing in the rain. Awesome!!!
Other standouts are the sombre "Moonsglow" (with gently shuffling beats), and the gently distorted "Shape shifting" (with subtle vocoder effects), and "Separate rooms" with skittery beats.
Lovely ethereal echo-ey vocals, intelligent lyrics, eerie cinematic sounds and subtle electronic flourishes make for one of the best albums ever to sneak under the radar.
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Ruby Lee (Atlanta, GA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Perhaps refreshing and soothing are strong enough to describe the feeling gained while listening to Gaelle's Transient. The original vibe on each song is so lovely and captivating that it suits any mood from passionate desire to vengeful action. (see "Parkway").
From beginning to finish, Gaelle vocally delivers lyrics that, no matter how familiar they seem, were created so well that it feels like it's the first time a real love song has been written. With a range of production from soft ballads to upbeat tempos, this CD is emotionally perfect. "Falling" is captivating, the retro "Give It Back" is worth repeating, the wave crashing "Fade Away" is poetic. Surprisingly, it was not "Rain" that participated in the overuse of the rainstorm effect. Instead, "Repetition" took a chance and its haunting message succeeds in expressing the inner thoughts of a person in love. I love it. I love it. I love it. Etc.
Transient is a brilliant piece of art with elements that cover every ground. Although it flows like a Summer Breeze, this CD was a perfect start for 2005. One can only hope for more to come this year.
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