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List Price: $27.99 | | Label: Dramatico
Salesrank: 300032
Released: February 3, 2004 |
| Our Price: $5.27 |
| Used Price: $0.28 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Call off the Search Track Listing:
1. Call Off the Search
2. Shirt of a Ghost
3. Deep Purple
Editorial Review:
Call Off The Search is the debut album from Georgia born singer/songwriter Katie Melua. The album is a mix of contemporary adult pop, jazz, blues and world music. Enhanced CD features 12 tracks plus video footage of 'Katie Melua - Starting Out, 2003'. Dramatico. 2003.
Description of Call off the Search:
Call Off the Search was released in the U.K. in November 2003 to deserved acclaim, alongside countless declarations that this 19-year-old British music school-educated, Russian-born singer is "the next Norah." There are similarities--Melua does work within a jazz/blues idiom, is talented beyond her years, and concentrates more on classics than her own material (ten are covers and two originals). But she's far more of a classic showbiz type singer than the sultry and sophisticated-sounding Jones. On the single "The Closest Thing to Crazy," for instance, Melua's phrasing is pure show tune. But it works for her, as it did for Lena and Liza before. The only weak link resides in a few straightahead blues songs, notably the 12-bar stomp "My Aphrodisiac Is You." Melua has the talent, she just lacks the soul to put oomph into a song that namechecks the Kama Sutra (this is as it should be, of course, as she's a teenager, but the choice of material is suspect nonetheless). Melua is a great torch singer who deserves the spotlight; odds are you'll eagerly await her next album before you're even done listening to this one all the way through. --Mike McGonigal
Call off the Search Reviews:
We seem to be missing some material here 
2006-05-06 - I just downloaded a CD called "Piece by Piece", liked it and decided to buy (I don't pirate), but oops, nothing here. The CD is new and currently a UK import (for a singer from Georgia? Make that Georgia, former USSR, but you can't tell!). Very nice, like Kristin Hersh without a quirky edge, but not so far as to be smaltzy, check it out if you can. Anyone who covers "Just Like Heaven" rates in my book, but it looks like I'll have to wait to give her the $14 she deserves.
Superb 
2004-06-07 - Mr Fourie, another South African reviewer unfortunately cannot tell the difference between Norah Jones and Katie Melua.........sad because Melua exudes such appeal, warmth and 'listen to me' spunk. A superb debut album, a ringing voice and great songwriting ability.
Brilliant!
2004-05-31 - How can you not love this album? I truly like every track. I have listened to this CD over and over, and I never get sick of Katie's voice!!!! My favorite tracks are: Call Off The Search, Crawling Up a Hill, Closest Thing To Crazy, I Think It's Going To Rain Today, Faraway Voice and Belfast. Check it out!!!!
Super
2004-05-27 - Wonderful job, this album will take you away and you won't want to come back; yes it is Nora John's style, but take it easy, seems to me that Katie is fresh enough and that she has very special voice, not speaking about her talant of guitar playing and instrumenting. Brava!
Better than Norah Jones
2004-05-22 - I am from Belfast in Northern Ireland where Katie Melua lived after fleeing from Georgia (Not the one in the US) so I may be biased plus her single Closest thing to crazy has never been off the radio here - but she is much better than Norah Jones - her foreign accent lends a lot to the songs which many she wrote herself - including a song about Belfast which was refreshingly about the good things we have here. A good CD to relax to and chill out - buy it if you like Norah Jones. Hopefully she will become better known in the US.
