| Product Summary | | Label: HEAR MUSIC/UNIVERSAL | | UPC: 00888072304574 | | Release Date: 9/25/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 205587479 | | Item#: M3SDVD | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2007 Joni Mitchell Under exclusive license to StarCon,LLC d/b/a Hear Music
(C) 2007 Joni Mitchell Under exclusive license to StarCon,LLC d/b/a Hear Music
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Joni Mitchell (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards); Joni Mitchell; James D. Taylor, James Taylor (acoustic guitar); Greg Leisz (pedal steel guitar); Larry Klein (bass guitar); Leigh Allardyce (dancer); Bob Sheppard (soprano saxophone, alto saxophone); Brian Blade (drums); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion). | | Recording information: Castle Oaks Studios, Calabasas, CA. | | Photographers: Charles "Chilly Dog: Hope; Clay Stang. | | Arranger: Joni Mitchell. | | The world almost didn't get another Joni Mitchell album after she announced her retirement following 2002's TRAVELOGUE. Whatever her reasons for changing her mind five years down the line, the sheer inspiration behind SHINE is obvious. Her first album of new material in nine years, SHINE finds Mitchell adopting a more intimate approach (especially in contrast to the massive orchestrations of TRAVELOGUE), handling many of the instrumental duties herself. In fact, it's her unconventional approach to both acoustic and electronic instruments that gives the album much of its singular charm; unusually organic synthesizer stabs and skittering electronic percussion rub shoulders with oddball guitar tunings and spidery piano lines. | | Lyrically, Mitchell melds poetic imagery with sociopolitical themes more seamlessly than she's done in some time, and even revisits one of her earliest songs in this mode, with a perky recasting of her chestnut "Big Yellow Taxi." Listening to the level of artistic urgency apparent on SHINE, it's difficult to imagine Mitchell could have ever really believed she had nothing left to say. |
Producer: Joni Mitchell; Joni Mitchell |
Engineer: Joshua Blanchard; Chris Marshall; Dan Marnien; Joshua Blanchard; Chris Marshall |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 09/25/2007 | | Original Release Date : 2007 | | Catalog ID : 30457 | | Label : Hear Music (Starbucks) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Runtime : 46m : 51s | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00888072304574 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Entertainment Weekly (p.105)
- "Delicate overture 'One Week Last Summer' could be an outtake from 1977's underrated DON JUAN'S RECKLESS DAUGHTER..."Uncut (p.114)
- 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] stripped-back, more personal album....There's elegiac beauty to these tracks..." Q (Magazine)
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- Ranked #39 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2007" -- "[A] musically mellow but lyrically harsh wake-up call..." |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Production |  5 | | Performance | 5 | | Composition | 5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 5 |
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5 of 5 Joni Mitchell for the 21st Century Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Otto from Austin, TX
Joni Mitchell is among the most significant and creative musicians of the latter 20th century; one of the few to whom the term "artistic genius" can be rightfully applied. Her songwriting stands equally with such greats of the Rock Era as Lennon & McCartney, Dylan, Stevie Wonder, and Pete Townshend. With her first album of new material in 9 years, Joni continues to shine far brighter than most other stars of popular music. Her voice is no longer the multi-octave marvel it was in the past, but it still retains a depth and quality which is amazing, such as on the thoroughly moving and soulful song "Shine". Her compositions are as beautiful, melodic, insightful, and thought-provoking as ever. On this album she addresses many issues of our time, like the environment, the war, and the culture of avarice and egotism. But there are also lighter moments, such as her fresh reinterpretation of the classic "Big Yellow Taxi", and the instrumental opening cut. This album brings to mind the Joni of "Ladies of the Canyon", "Blue", "For the Roses" and "Court & Spark", with a return to more piano-based songs than on her later albums. Besides guitar, Joni plays most of the instrumentation, with the interspersed accompaniment of pedal steel, bass, drums, and sax. James Taylor adds guitar fills to the title song. There's not a song here which doesn't live up to Joni's high standards of integrity and artistry. It's such a pleasure to have Joni Mitchell back on the music scene! I hope she continues to create more marvelous music for years to come. Buy this album. You won't be sorry. Was this review helpful?  
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