Joan Baez - Baptism
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Artist: Joan BaezEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2003-10-14
Music Label: Vanguard Records
Soundtracks:
- Old Welsh Song
- I Saw the Vision of Armies
- Minister of War
- Song in the Blood
- Casida of the Lament
- Of the Dark Past (Ecce Puer)
- London
- In Guernica
- Who Murdered the Minuets
- Oh, Little Child
- No Man Is an Island
- From Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- All the Pretty Little Horses
- Childhood III
- Magic Wood
- Poems from the Japanese
- Colours
- All in Green Went My Love Riding
- Gacela of the Dark Death
- Parable of the Old Man and the Young
- Evil
- Epitaph for a Poet
- Old Welsh Song
- Mystic Numbers: 36. Wedding Song
- When the Shy Star Goes Forth in Heaven
- Angel
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Free Music Review: Often misunderstood, but she never recorded anything so good later
Hit: 4 Stars
Recorded as part of a trilogy with No?l and Joan, "Baptism" remains probably the most controversial work in Joan Baez' career.
Whilst "Joan" and "No?l" Baez had been working on accessible, contemprary material that alienated many of her early fans interested in traditional folk song, "Baptism" consisted of poetry recitals that rarely saw Baez signing at all: most of "Baptism" is spoken rather than sung and many of her early fans disliked the album for that reason, though it still stayed longer in the Billboard charts than anything after Farewell, Angelina.
Actually, however, "Baptism", whilst it is largely spoken, actually stands as proof that Baez' voice is able to speak rather than sing without losing an ounce of the remarkable beauty that has made it so admired for many decades. Although born as late as 1977, I have enough experience with music to know conclusively that it is very unsual for a "singing" voice to translate well to a more spoken style, and the quiet beauty that dominates "Baptism" is thus highly compelling.
Most tracks on "Baptism" are very short, with only two piece over three minutes, and this does detract somewhat because too many of the tracks lack lines that could possibly make them really memorable. Nonethless, both the slight, upbeat "The Magic Wood" and the dark war trilogy of "London", "In Guernica" and "Who Murdered the Minuets" are touching enough to be extremely compelling.
"All The Pretty Little Horses" is as sad and beautiful as anything Baez did on her early pre-orchestration albums, and the extremely soft "Minister of War" is a touching appeal that should stand as a lesson to many makers of political rock in the modern world that louder is not more effective. Peter Schickele's orchestration is much less lush than on "Joan" and probably he fits "Baptism"'s extraordinarily spartan atmosphere (even compared to the ambience of her early pure folk albums) better. Overall, "Baptism" is the last Baez album that anyone except a hardcore fan needs. Even if at times not memorable, its spare, quiet, touching nature is exactly what folk music should be.
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