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Music : Hejira [VINYL]
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- Why "Vinyl"?
I'm not a huge singer/songwriter fan but I particularly like the awesome beauty of the backing track provided by such notables as Larry Carlton and Jaco Pastorious reminiscent of the kind of jazzy mood that would be created by Steely Dan on "Aja" and "Gaucho".What I can't understand is why Amazon have called this particular edition "Hejira"(Vinyl).The cataloguers don't want to know because I can't prove it on the web but this edition is nothing more than a 1987 CD reissue of the 1976 vinyl album and there's no trace of vinyl.I do wish one or two of the supplers would point this out to Amazon as I'm sure many of us are being misled to believe that this edition is a 12 inch vinyl LP.
Rating: - Life becomes a Travelogue
This album was released eight years before I appeared on this earth. I am now 23 years old, and this album means a lot to me. Joni Mitchell's lyrics are effortlessly beautiful, and this album has rapidly taken over 'Blue' as my favourite Joni Mitchell album. It's more than music, there's something timeless and ethereal about this gem that grows and grows with every listen. It's very difficult to describe the effect of the landscapes, emotions and images that are conjured up here. The best way I can describe it is as a musical journey. It's about travelling around the world only to find yourself. The lyrics and the music are fluid and unrestricted, conveying this wonderful essence of travel and discovery.
Sometimes when I listen to this album I wish I was growing up at the time when it was orginally released. When music was actually music. Some modern day singer/songwriters such as Tori Amos and Bjork may come close to turning their music into an art form, and have some success. But none of them can surpass Joni Mitchell. Buy and have your eyes opened to what music can be.
In a highway service station
Over the month of June
Was a photograph of the earth
Taken coming back from the moon
And you couldn't see a city
On that marbled bowling ball
Or a forest or a highway
Or me here least of all
You couldn't see these cold water restrooms
Or this baggage overload
Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads...
Rating: - Comfort In Melancholy (nevertoolate #001)
1976 saw the release of an album which continues to hold a solid
place among the most enjoyed and revered albums in The Wolf's
collection.
Never a stranger to confessional songwriting, in 'Hejira' Ms Mitchell
arrived at what perhaps remains the pinnacle of her creative career.
These nine songs reach across the void between the deeply personal and a kind of sublime universality.
Songs of lost love; fragile hope; the ever-present tension between
committment and flight; the deep desire for some kind of transcendent
reconciliation with what it might be to be wholly human.
The contribution of her fellow musicians, notably bassist Jaco Pastorius, is almost organically integrated into the breath and bones of this extraordinay music.
Ms Mitchell's voice reaches a warmth of tone and maturity unmatched by her peers. Her flirtations with jazz have not been wasted.
We find them here lovingly absorbed in performances of commanding emotional power and integrity.
Great music was never better than this.
'Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light'.
Dylan Thomas
Rating: - Her Best
I wont go into details as there are some fine reviews here. I bought this album the day it was released having a few earlier works in my collection. Joni caught my mood and I became very thoughtful. She leads one to contemplate the meaning of our short existence in this work. It is simply poetry with music- a unique sound. In a way, this stuff prepared me for a spiritual path. Find your own answers. Music cannot preach. Thanks Joni.
Rating: - The greatest album of all time
I always ask friends and colleagues what disc they would take to a desert island, if they had to choose just one. Then they ask me in turn...and I say "Hejira, by Joni Mitchell, of course...what else".
It has everything. I first heard it in 1977. I bought it, coz it said Joni Mitchell on the cover, and I had heard what a brilliant songwriter she is...apart from that I had no idea what the album was gonna be like. What a great piece of luck that was...
I still listen to Coyote even now and get a thrill. Amelia and the title track still move me to tears. But the masterstroke is the last song, "Refuge of the Roads". Listen to the achingly beautiful words here! So moving.... and Joni's singing is so expressive. I have listened to this album tens of thousands of times since I boutght it way back then...it still moves me 30 years later.
A must in any collection!
- Why "Vinyl"?I'm not a huge singer/songwriter fan but I particularly like the awesome beauty of the backing track provided by such notables as Larry Carlton and Jaco Pastorious reminiscent of the kind of jazzy mood that would be created by Steely Dan on "Aja" and "Gaucho".What I can't understand is why Amazon have called this particular edition "Hejira"(Vinyl).The cataloguers don't want to know because I can't prove it on the web but this edition is nothing more than a 1987 CD reissue of the 1976 vinyl album and there's no trace of vinyl.I do wish one or two of the supplers would point this out to Amazon as I'm sure many of us are being misled to believe that this edition is a 12 inch vinyl LP.
Rating:
- Life becomes a TravelogueThis album was released eight years before I appeared on this earth. I am now 23 years old, and this album means a lot to me. Joni Mitchell's lyrics are effortlessly beautiful, and this album has rapidly taken over 'Blue' as my favourite Joni Mitchell album. It's more than music, there's something timeless and ethereal about this gem that grows and grows with every listen. It's very difficult to describe the effect of the landscapes, emotions and images that are conjured up here. The best way I can describe it is as a musical journey. It's about travelling around the world only to find yourself. The lyrics and the music are fluid and unrestricted, conveying this wonderful essence of travel and discovery.
Sometimes when I listen to this album I wish I was growing up at the time when it was orginally released. When music was actually music. Some modern day singer/songwriters such as Tori Amos and Bjork may come close to turning their music into an art form, and have some success. But none of them can surpass Joni Mitchell. Buy and have your eyes opened to what music can be.
In a highway service station
Over the month of June
Was a photograph of the earth
Taken coming back from the moon
And you couldn't see a city
On that marbled bowling ball
Or a forest or a highway
Or me here least of all
You couldn't see these cold water restrooms
Or this baggage overload
Westbound and rolling taking refuge in the roads...
Rating:
- Comfort In Melancholy (nevertoolate #001)1976 saw the release of an album which continues to hold a solid
place among the most enjoyed and revered albums in The Wolf's
collection.
Never a stranger to confessional songwriting, in 'Hejira' Ms Mitchell
arrived at what perhaps remains the pinnacle of her creative career.
These nine songs reach across the void between the deeply personal and a kind of sublime universality.
Songs of lost love; fragile hope; the ever-present tension between
committment and flight; the deep desire for some kind of transcendent
reconciliation with what it might be to be wholly human.
The contribution of her fellow musicians, notably bassist Jaco Pastorius, is almost organically integrated into the breath and bones of this extraordinay music.
Ms Mitchell's voice reaches a warmth of tone and maturity unmatched by her peers. Her flirtations with jazz have not been wasted.
We find them here lovingly absorbed in performances of commanding emotional power and integrity.
Great music was never better than this.
'Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light'.
Dylan Thomas
Rating:
- Her BestI wont go into details as there are some fine reviews here. I bought this album the day it was released having a few earlier works in my collection. Joni caught my mood and I became very thoughtful. She leads one to contemplate the meaning of our short existence in this work. It is simply poetry with music- a unique sound. In a way, this stuff prepared me for a spiritual path. Find your own answers. Music cannot preach. Thanks Joni.
Rating:
- The greatest album of all timeI always ask friends and colleagues what disc they would take to a desert island, if they had to choose just one. Then they ask me in turn...and I say "Hejira, by Joni Mitchell, of course...what else".
It has everything. I first heard it in 1977. I bought it, coz it said Joni Mitchell on the cover, and I had heard what a brilliant songwriter she is...apart from that I had no idea what the album was gonna be like. What a great piece of luck that was...
I still listen to Coyote even now and get a thrill. Amelia and the title track still move me to tears. But the masterstroke is the last song, "Refuge of the Roads". Listen to the achingly beautiful words here! So moving.... and Joni's singing is so expressive. I have listened to this album tens of thousands of times since I boutght it way back then...it still moves me 30 years later.
A must in any collection!