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You may know Irène Jacob as the enchanting, award-winning Swiss actress who starred in two of the best films of the past 20 years: Three Colours: Red and The Double Life of Veronique, both directed by the legendary Krzysztof Kieslowski (we highly recommend both). But you probably didn't know Irène is also a songwriter and naturally gifted singer, a fact that comes to brilliant light with Je Sais Nager ("I Know How to Swim") (May 8, Sunnyside), a new album she created with her New York-based brother, jazz composer and guitarist Francis Jacob. The music is airy but thoughtful, full of playful turns and colorful world beat rhythms, melodies that flit and sparkle with inspired arrangements backed by instrumentalists from Morocco, Brazil and Peru -- and all delightfully transcendent of language. 04/17/12
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