Mayssa Karaa - Simple Cure
MAYSSA KARAA DAZZLES ON ‘SIMPLE CURE’
Simple Cure is the title of Mayssa Karaa’s new album, releasing today. Right from the beginning, know this: it’s an exquisitely enchanting album.
Mayssa Karaa
Born and raised in Lebanon, even though schooled in classical music, Karaa believed she would pursue a lifelong career in civil engineering. But with a simple sentence, a French conductor transformed Karaaa’s future.
According to Karaaa, he said, “When you meet God he’s going to tell you, ‘I gave you a gift – what did you do with it?’ That was the turning point in my career.”
Karaa’s wonderful lyricism finds its origin in simple conversations. She explains, “I would speak with my producer Richard Jacques, tell him something that I remembered, and we would come up with the lines and hooks to relate these
A gifted performer with a dazzling voice, Karaa sings in nine languages and has toured the world, performing at Faneuil hall, the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, and with the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra, while her impressive version of “White Rabbit” in American Hustle thrilled theater audiences.
Karaa’s sound amalgamates tinctures of Arabic music and bewitching pop flavors into glossy potions of marvelous potency.
Perhaps the best track on the album is “Somebody To Love,” a brawny rendering of Jefferson Airplane’s famous song.
Comprising 10-tracks, the first track on Simple Cure is “Broken Lines,” featuring burnished pop colors traveling atop an elusively refined Arabic groove, giving the tune an alluring sway full of glistening surfaces, as Karaa’s crystalline tones mount overhead.
From a subjective viewpoint, the best tracks include “In The Gray,” which conveys the fuzzy area betwixt black and white. Full of velvety electro-pop flavors, the song allows Karaa to parade her superb vocal range.
On the title track, with its deep rhythmic elements and smooth flows of sound, Karaa delivers tone of such beauty they seem to have a vitality of their own.
“Step in the air, breathe in the stars, the simple cure is every heart.”
“Call Me A Stranger,” a song about Karaa’s personal search for self in a world bloated by turbulence and misunderstanding, rides a delicious thrumming rhythm supporting yummy pop savors accented by Arabic timbres. There’s a subdued yet palpable urgency to the lyrics.
Perhaps the best track on the album is “Somebody To Love,” a brawny rendering of Jefferson Airplane’s famous song. Karaa’s version brims with thick hefty energy.
Wonderfully wrought, Simple Cure blends gorgeous pop pigments on pulsating rhythms, highlighted by the magical tones of Mayssa Karaa.
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