Joni Mitchell - Hejira
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Free Music Review: Haunting and Powerful
Hit: 5 Stars
After 24 years, Hejira still stands as the jewel in Joni's formidable crown. While 'Blue' and 'Court and Spark' generally get the critical acclaim (and these are indeed seminal works), Hejira remains, for me, the most powerful and haunting of her creations-her Masterpiece. Lyrically, she is unquestionably at her peak, her deepened voice has found a new maturity of singing style and the hypnotic, jazzy, sexy music is in every way equal to the intensity of her poetry. While it lacks the "pop" feel of some of Joni's other works, making it perhaps less accessible to the casual listener, Hejira is an absolute "must have" for the serious music lover. Ostensibly a "travel record", written while crossing the country in her car, Hejira reveals, in painstaking, breathtaking detail, the emotional journey away from and finally back to romantic love. Beautiful and painful, stark and uncompromising, this record continues to offer insight into the human heart even after nearly a quarter of a century. With Hejira, Joni has made a lasting piece of Art.Free Music Review: Astounding!
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm a new convert to Joni. While I'm old enough to have grown up with her music, I didn't really start listening to her music until 2003 after seeing that amazing PBS special. So after that I purchased half a dozen albums. Hejira is my favorite so far. I love her early, acoustic work but there's no question Joni grew tremendously over the years and Hejira is an example of this growth. What's odd is this is first album in this "Period" I listened to after enjoying all her earlier more "famous" music. I didn't really "get it" the first few times I listened to the album but the melodies are so musically complex that after a few times I simply couldn't stop playing it over and over again. Every track is simply superb. Her voice shows a maturity over the early work and the melodic structure of the songs are mesmerizing. Joni is one of most gifted musical artist there ever was. I'm so pleased that after 43 years I finally stumbled on this truly gifted artists. Her music has provided great enjoyment and Hejira is a stunning example of her talent.Free Music Review: Joni Mitchell discovers the world
Hit: 5 Stars
Before purchasing this album, I had two of Joni's earlier, "folkier" albums which had great lyrics, but this album takes everything a step beyond. Using only a few instruments on each song, Joni manages to create HUGE wide open soundscapes that give the listener the feeling that they are travelling on an open road with nothing but the vastness of nature around them. The bass playing on this album is like nothing I've ever heard before; the bass is used as a melodic instrument instead of as a rhythmic one, which was totally against the trends of the late 70's (listen to any disco song and you'll see what I mean!). Joni was always ahead of her time, and each album she made was a quest to discover something new. This one is the greatest journey of all, because Joni discovers things about the world that we can all learn from (especially in the final song). While it's playing, "Hejira" takes me away and leaves me feeling like I actually know more about the universe then I did before I listened to it. How many albums can you say that about?Free Music Review: From Artist to National Treasure
Hit: 5 Stars
The accolades that other reviewers have laid down here are not hyperbole. This is a timeless, visual masterpiece. The session players here are masterful in themselves: Jaco Pastorius and Max Bennett alternating on bass and John Guerin on drums. Wunderkind Larry Carlton plays the most tasteful lead guitar of his career. Honest.
The imagery is superb, taking you flying first with Amelia Earhart and then soaring through a blue sky as one Carlos Castaneda's crows, interspersed with the muscular, sun-gold clouds of Michelangelo. It takes you coast-to-coast, just to contemplate. It takes you to the depth of a deep and muddy well. It spans a lifetime between the forceps and the stone.
Don't miss this recording. I went from admiring her earlier "folk" career to a unreasonable, fanatical attraction for her, but it's okay, I'm just able to control it. Seriously, she's an attractive woman but I have a deep, deep respect for the depth of her introspection. Joni Mitchell went from artist to national treasure with this recording.
Free Music Review: Joni & Jaco Jazzy Pop Jewel
Hit: 5 Stars
With 100 reviews here, I debated putting up my two cents, but since it's the top album on my desert island list, my favorite album of all time, here goes, and I'll be brief:
Where poetry and music enmesh, becoming one: chilly and desolate, spatial and luminous, an aural landscape of ice and endless highways painted with the words of a nomadic, romantic dreamer and rich, layered melodies, brilliantly underpinned by the driving rhythms of Jaco Pastorius' fretless electric bass, this is the crowning achievement in a career filled with greatness. My favorite lines come in the title song:
"I'm porous with travel fever
But you know I'm so glad to be on my own
Still sometimes the slightest touch of a stranger
Can set up trembling in my bones
I know -- no one's going to show me everything
We all come and go unknown
Each so deep and superficial
Between the forceps and the stone"
Joni Mitchell is the best and this album is her best of the best! TEN stars!!!