Shine (Joni Mitchell album)
Occupation
- Vocals: Joni Mitchell
- Piano, Keyboards: Joni Mitchell
- Synthesizers: Joni Mitchell
- Electric Guitar: Joni Mitchell, Greg Leisz
- Acoustic Guitar: James Taylor
- Soprano saxophone Bob Sheppard
- Drums: Brian Blade
- Percussion: Paulinho da Costa
- E -Bass: Larry Klein
Shine is the 17th studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell and was released on September 25, 2007 by Starbucks ' Hear Music. After nine years, it was the first album by the singer-songwriter with new songs by Taming the Tiger of 1998.
Joni Mitchell, who had retired to his own statement from the music business, has signed a contract with Starbucks ' Hear Music on two albums, which began with the release of " Shine". The 10 - track CD " feels like the return of the storyteller Joni Mitchell ," said Ken Lombard, president of Starbucks Entertainment, who also serves as patron for Hear Music. Previously, Mitchell recorded for Warner Music.
In the United States, the album sold in the first week after the release of about 40,000 times, and sat down immediately ranked 14 on the Billboard 200 list; that was Joni Mitchell's best peak position in America since the 1976 album Hejira. Shine culminated with number 36 in the British lists and made it there to Mitchell's first Top 40 album since 1991.
In its first week on sale about 60,000 copies were sold worldwide from Shine.
Idea
The album was played live with an accompanying choreographed ballet dance, performed by the Alberta Ballet. It was cinematically recorded and shown on September 25, 2007 in New York City in the Sunshine Theater in Houston Street in front of an audience. The ballet background was fitted with photographs by Joni Mitchell. These photos were taken with a camera that was directed at a television wall with an inverted image, generated by a green - white image. The photos were taken in the same night, when the film was shown, also exhibited at the Violet Ray Gallery. The cover of Shine shows a still photo of the ballet dancer.
History
In 2002 Joni Mitchell had turned away from the music business. Only when she was approached from the Ottawa Citizen in October 2006, the public learned again from the fact that she had returned to writing songs and recordings. In an interview with the daily newspaper Mitchell revealed that she " was just about to take her first collection of new songs in nearly a decade ", but did not provide any details. Four months later, Joni said in an interview with The New York Times that the album due to the war in Iraq and " a remark uttered her grandchildren during a family dispute ," came about: " Bad dreams are good - in the grand scheme " ( 'Bad dreams are good - in the great plan '). And though Mitchell of the New York Times announced that the title of the album loud either Strange Birds of Appetite or If the title Shine was confirmed on 15 March 2007 on its official website.
The Sunday Times reported in February 2007, the album had " a minimal feel a sparseness that harks back to her early work," and added that " rest and some good healer" had restored some of her vocal power. Mitchell himself described shine as "the most important work I 've ever done. "
Title List
- In an interview, Mitchell referred to the fact that they are a " was inspired second guitar song, when it was decided to excavate the mountain behind my sacred place and it was a Bausch Otter for 08/15-Häuser to California to sell [sic ]. "
- " If I Had a Heart, I'd Cry" is to be understood as a response to the state of the environment and what Mitchell described as the ongoing "holy war". In February 2007, The New York Times described the song as "one of the most haunting melodies she has ever written." As an impetus to write the song, explained Mitchell, " My heart is broken, given the stupidity of my species. I can not cry about it. In a way I 'm vaccinated against it. I have experienced this pain for so long ... The West has loaded the whole world on a runaway train. We are on the way to wipe us out as a species. "
- "Bad Dreams Are Good" was inspired by a remark that made Mitchell's grandson at the age of three years: " Bad dreams are good, in the grand scheme. " ( "Bad dreams are good in the great plan. " ) In a BBC2 radio interview with Amanda Ghost of March 2007, the singer jokingly said that she had promised, " to cut it for the benefit of the song".
- The text of songs appeared on 17 September 2007 as a poem in the New Yorker.
- The Guardian reported in March 2007 that shine a new version of Mitchell's environment of themed hit single will contain 1970.
- Based on the screenplay The Night of the Iguana ( translation of the title into German: " The Night of the Iguana " ) by Tennessee Williams.
- Toronto Globe and Mail described this song as " a sumptuous lullaby for the soul"
- The text refers to the " pastor Pearson " Carlton Pearson.
- This song is based on the eponymous poem by Rudyard Kipling. The jazz -inspired piece is characterized by the piano of Herbie Hancock.