Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
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Artist: Joni MitchellEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Elektra / Wea
Soundtracks:
- In France They Kiss On Main Street
- The Jungle Line
- Edith And The Kingpin
- Don't Interrupt The Sorrow
- Shades Of Scarlett Conquering
- The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
- The Boho Dance
- Harry's House/Centerpiece
- Sweet Bird
- Shadows And Light
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Free Music Review: Joni wins her "struggle for higher achievement"
Hit: 5 Stars
"Hissing" is Joni Mitchell's greatest album. It's been called "avant-garde", but there is something forbidding about that term and this music is accessible and enjoyable. The arrangements are well-textured and always interesting, never overstuffed, gimmicky or cute, and often - very often - astonishingly beautiful. Kudos to Tom Scott and the LA Express, and to Joni for coaxing such a classy performance from them. The music is strongly jazz-tinged without being actual jazz, but the main thing is it works. Devote one full listen to just the instruments, then another to Joni's voice, then a third just to concentrate on the lyrics. Each listen will reveal new pleasures and a greater appreciation for the quality of the entire effort. Each song is a treasure, no song disappoints, and one can listen to them again and again without growing weary of them. Unlike earlier (and some later) efforts in which Joni focuses on herself, here she focuses her laser lens on the world in which she moves, alternately with sympathy and withering criticism. Cinematic imagery abounds in these songs, from the the Kingpin's clasping hands in "Edith", the blood-dipped barbed-wire fence of "Hissing" to the dragonfly helicopter of "Harry". These images suck you in, song by song. One gets the sense that Joni is disgorging her vision of life with some pain, but with the conviction of necessity, and that she is doing so with ambivalence to popular reaction. This album rises above any popular genre, and even above Joni's other lofty output. It is a work of art - ennobling, uplifting, timeless.
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Court and Spark had earned Joni Mitchell mainstream pop acceptance, but its underlying spirit of discovery pushed her to risk new-found success with this edgier, experimental sequel released in 1975. Although the session crew is largely the same, and sleek jazz elements again abound, these songs find her introducing Burundi drums (on "The Jungle Line"), layering magisterial but forbidding vocal harmonies ("Shadows and Light"), and casting rueful shadows across the sun-dazed Southern California of the title song. Her daring promptly earned critical scorn and halted her commercial expansion, but the album's confident eclecticism and dark beauty have outlived that reception: from the safety of hindsight, Hissing was a promise to stay hungry and creatively adventurous, a promise kept then and now. --Sam SutherlandJazz Music CDs
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