`No Goodbye at All' Lady Linn and her Magnificent Seven

The new album released in Belgium on April the 29th and internationally September 2011

Lady Linn and her Magnificent Seven are back and this time more than ever, she's made a pop album. Well, pop with dazzling horns and swirling melodies, and the most soulful voice in the Low Countries to top it all off. `No Goodbye at All' is the second album of the Belgian soulstress-songwriter and her Magnificent Seven, a sharp-dressed, all-male and also quite `horny' backing band, as it comprises sax, trombone, trumpet, double bass, piano and drums. `No Goodbye at All' was recorded in Paris with Renaud Letang (Jane Birkin, Feist, Manu Chao, Mocky, Gonzales…), whose name Lady Linn stumbled upon while reading the small print on her favourite contemporary records. Lady Linn: `Albums by Feist, Jamie Lidell and especially Mocky, those were all records that I liked so much for their soulful minimalism… Turned out they were all produced by Renaud Letang! So he just had to be the producer of my next album.' The follow up to 2008's platinum `Here We Go Again', the album with the hit single `I Don't Wanna Dance' (an Eddy Grant cover) which sold 30.000 copies in Belgium and saw Lady Linn score the best Female Artist song at The Music Industry Awards in both 2009 and 2010, is every bit as impressive as its predecessor. This time however, Lady Linn has made a point of ripping up the rule book she had written so well. Lady Linn: `With my first album, I did swing jazz because I liked that style, it wasn't fashionable or anything, but it struck a chord with the people. The success of `Here We Go Again' gave me the confidence to completely trust on my instincts. This time, I wanted to make a pop record.' Just don't think of pop as in `electro pop' or `synth pop'. Lady Linn's pop influences range from classic soul à la Irma Thomas and the sixties pop grandeur of Belgian singer Louis Neefs to the surf music of the Beach Boys and Brazilian bossa nova. And there's even a little bit of bluegrass country in there… `No Goodbye at All' is a departure of the vintage swing jazz feel of Lady Linn's breakthrough debut album, it's a warm record that sounds both modern and authentic. Recorded at Studio Ferber in Paris, `No Goodbye at All' features twelve new songs which explore various moods and styles. Fingersnaps, a bit of doowopping and lyrics that just burst with joie de vivre, `Good Morning' is the most upbeat song on the album. But as easily as Lady

Linn pirouettes through her day, she dwells in graceful melancholy, in well-crafted and beautifully arranged songs as `Over' and `Little Bird'. The old school swing jazz flavour of the debut album `Here We Go Again' isn't lost completely: it can be heard in `Always Shine', a song that Lady Linn wrote when her now deceased grandfather was fighting his battle against cancer. In `Nina' Lady Linn pays tribute to another guardian angel of hers: Nina Simone, musical heroine, femme forte, and perennial source of inspiration. The theatrical, slightly psychedelic dream pop of `Love Song' was written after Lady Linn discovered the Beach Boys catalogue, and for that bluegrass country song? `Good Old Sunday Blues' isn't a straightforward country song - after all, this is Lady Linn, not Loretta Lynn - but the rhythm of the song was inspired by the soundtrack of the Coen brothers-film `O Brother, Where Art Thou?'. The title track `No Goodbye at All' is a bittersweet symphony in which Lady Linn kisses a lover off. Lady Linn: `Renaud Letang thought that was just the heaviest lyric he'd hear me sing. He said it was typical for women to dig that deep. But that's what I like about soul music: it's music that's not afraid to get emotional, and at the same time it's uplifting music. That's also what's attracting me to Brazilian music at the moment: that beautiful mixture of melancholy and hope. I think sad situations have a romantic side to them anyway. When one door closes, another door opens.' With `No Goodbye at All', Lady Linn and her Magnificent Seven have definitely opened a new door. The Magnificent Seven are Yves Fernandez, Marc De Maeseneer, Frederik Heirman, Tom Callens, Christian Mendoza, Koen Kimpe en Matthias Standaert Tracklisting:

1. Cry Baby 2. Anything For You 3. Little Bird 4. Over 5. Good Morning 6. Good Old Sunday Blues 7. Love Song 8. Nina 9. Didn't Know What To Say 10. Always Shine

11.First Snow 12. No Goodbye at All