Track Listing

1. Falling
2. Parkway
3. Give It Back
4. Fade Away
5. Haiti (Interlude)
6. Love You More
7. Repetition
8. Shape Shifting
9. Transient
10. Rain
11. Separete Rooms
12. Moonsglow

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #102641 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-16
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Prepare to be hooked! Gaelle's voice and sound are wonderful!
A while back, Gaelle gave a very intimate and revealing interview at HoneySoul.com . She talked candidly about life pre and post her tenure at Naked Music. One could tell that she pours her soul into every verse of her music, each song delivered as if she birthed a child of her own. Naked Music is known for releasing very soulful, mid to uptempo dance tracks. "Transient" is a little on the mellow side, what we like to call chillout music. It could have been released just as easily as an instrumental album, the grooves are that good. Gaelle's beautiful voice become one with the music, so much so it would be hard to fathom anyone else singing on these tracks.

There are four singles here which could be deemed a headliner. "Rain" is an underground classic. It was the first piece of vinyl I received from the label and my introduction to Gaelle. See what I mean about the instrumentals while listening to the softness of the interlude titled "Haiti". It's very mellow and soothing and could easily be extended as I found it to be a wee bit short. The other two standouts are "Falling" and "Separate Rooms". In my opinion, these are the best tracks on an album filled with winners.

Gaelle has been relatively active since Transient was released. No immediate word on when her next full length will drop. Until it does, you'll play this one to death because the music is so refreshing. Underground and mixtape DJs continue to feature her on their projects and Gaelle's voice is a mainstay in the dance clubs. Lend this an ear and prepare to be hooked. Enjoy the grooves of Transient.

DJ Come of Age

Amazingly Fresh
Gaelle,

My wife bought your CD, and one day I was at the computer while she was playing it. I'm a musician, and I can tell you not much music these days catches my ears, but yours certainly did. Wow! So fresh, and sublime.

I hope you take this as a complement, but if there was to be a new Sade, you're it, but you're yourself in your own right. Love it.

Awesome album, hope to see something new soon.

Cheers!

Raindancing with Gaelle...
"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.