Joni Mitchell - Hejira
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Free Music Review: Dreams, Amelia, dreams and false alarms...
Hit: 5 Stars
These words haunt me. In fact, "Hejira" is a haunting record, filled with a cool, elegant sensation: sort of wandering off from an aristocratic dinner party and finding yourself in a wonderful, bare room filled with the most unearthly music and the elaborate images it brings forth."Amelia" is the song that has made this album worrk for me, I cannot get it out of my head. It is as touching as many other Joni songs, and as beautiful and sentimental as "Both Sides, Now", "A Case of You" and "The Circle Game"... yet it is also cool, composed, detached (like Joni's picture on the sleeve) as if the earth mother had entered her Bergman phase and was doing a fabulous Liv Ullmann effect.
Representative of the experimentation of the mid 70s, this is a secret weapon, a joyful treat, a glass of ice-cold champagne served on a car across a burning desert.
And you repeat over and over, can't help yourself but to do it: "Amelia, it was just a false alarm".
Free Music Review: Hejira....def.: A journey to seek refuge...
Hit: 5 Stars
...from a dangerous or undesirable environment. The album represents Joni's journey away from the constraints and expectations of popular music. More importantly, it brings you along with it as a participant, colored by your own interpretations and experiences. This is a spiritual album and not to be sampled piecemeal. It will grab the attention of the "deep thinkers" out there, but can become deeply personal after several listenings during quiet introspective times. Hejira is excellent for jazz enthusiasts seeking a mellow pop-fusion escape. Hejira is one of Joni's finest compositions, and she is arguably one the most talented humans to spend time on planet Earth. She is an extraordinary lyricist, poet, songwriter, artist, and innovator. If, at first, you don't like this album, try the albums Ladies of the Canyon, Blue, Court and Spark, and Hissing of the Summer Lawns (in order)...and follow the journey of an artist, not widely known, but whose fame is destined to grow through her incredible legacy.Free Music Review: No regrets Joni....
Hit: 5 Stars
HEJIRA is one of my favourite Joni Mitchell albums. Very different, but beautifully stark and honest. Mitchell and Jaco Pastorius working together resulted in lush melodies and clever orchestration. HEJIRA is of course also lyrically brilliant. These songs were written on a road trip Joni took, and deals with a life led as 'a prisoner of the white lines on the freeway'. There is an element of both freedom and confinement on this album. Being free to take a journey but afraid of where you might end up.
This spare albums 9 songs includes the phenomenal "Amelia" and "Coyote", the (well done) jazz driven "Blue Motel Room" and my favourite "Strange Boy" ( amazing lyrics - reads like a poem).
I always go back to BLUE and FOR THE ROSES, but HEJIRA has a special place in my heart. It is stunning.
"I'm travelling in some vehicle
I'm sitting in some cafe
A defector from the petty wars
Until love sucks me back that way..." from HEJIRA
Free Music Review: Joni Unplugged?
Hit: 5 Stars
A superb effort. Joni pares down some of the extravagances that mar the otherwise excellent "The Hissing of Summer Lawns" and demonstrates that, as the old adage goes, less is more. Other reviewers and one Joni Mitchell have all commented on the epic qualities of "Song for Sharon", possibly the finest cut on the album. Then again, it would be invidious to single out any particular track. Artistically, this album could be described as 'classical': Joni is by no means the only composer to move from exploration and diversity - even excess - to a simpler yet more mature and expressive aesthetic. In short, "Hejira" captures an artist in her prime: there is a rightness about this album, a feeling of complete integration of music, lyrics and instrumentation which suggest that Joni's previous work had all been leading up to this apogee. Whether or not it was downhill all the way from here, I do not feel qualified to judge - but it may well have been ...Free Music Review: Rarified finery
Hit: 5 Stars
The Herbie Hancock album "River: The Joni Letters" caused me to look back into Hejira, and I'm stunned by what I rediscovered. This IS one of the finest albums ever made. I admired and enjoyed it very much back then, but I'm even more impressed now. It sounds like it was recorded yesterday -- or tomorrow. Jaco Pastorius' bass playing is sublime, as is the muted guitar accompaniment (Larry Carlton and I presume Joni herself), a sound I cannot recall hearing elsewhere. Really, drummer John Guerin, other bassist Max Bennett and all the musicians on this album can take pride in having contributed to the making of something extraordinary and quite lasting. I really appreciate this album!
Of course, Joni is a gifted composer: lyrics, melodies, arrangements, all wow. And I think she may regard Hejira as her favorite album. In the universe of albums I'm reluctant to declare a single favorite, but Hejira certainly belongs on a short list for me.