Joni Mitchell - Turbulent Indigo
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Artist: Joni MitchellEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-10-25
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
- Sunny Sunday
- Sex Kills
- How Do You Stop
- Turbulent Indigo
- Last Chance Lost
- The Magdalen Laundries
- Not To Blame
- Borderline
- Yvette In English
- The Sire Of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song)
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Free Music Review: With TURBULENT INDIGO, Joni Mitchell Takes BLUE to the Next Level
Hit: 5 Stars
Universally accepted as one of the major creative forces in modern music, Joni Mitchell never ceases to amaze me with her genius. From the early innocent work of the 1960's, to her groundbreaking opus, "BLUE", she has always challenged the norm. With "Turbulent Indigo", Ms. Mitchell takes the brilliance of "Blue" to the max. An hommage to Vincent Van Gogh, "Turbulent Indigo" not only pushes the boundaries of pop music, but redefines them. As opposed to other pop songs where Vincent was romanticized in lovely poetry, Joni takes a different approach. She writes: "Tourists talking about the madhouse/ Talking about the ear/ The madman hangs in fancy homes/ They wouldn't let him near!/ He'd piss in their fireplace!/ He'd drag them through turbulent Indigo." Hardly the stuff of love songs, but this sets a tone to the other difficult topics Joni tackles in this album. Who else but Ms. Mitchell would write about being sold into white slavery in a 17th Century nunnery (The Magdalene Laundries) and actually make the work soar! Who else would dare tackle physical abuse with thinly veiled refernces to a popular music icon and an actress, and do so in such a delicate fashion, in perfect juxtaposition to the harsh nature of the topic. And, she does this all while never losing her sense of art. Each song is a painting, not unlike her paintings that decorates the covers of this CD. And, each of these "Paintings" works together to create one solid work of a CD. Like most of Ms. Mitchell's greater albums, the whole is dependant on the sum of its parts. These are not singular songs, randomly placed on the order. They are chapters in a book- pull out one song, and the "story" suffers. Choosing the greater songs off "Turbulent Indigo" is like choosing your favorite Van Gogh Painting-they are all so wonderful in their own right. I do find myself drawn to the amazing cut "Borderline", whose keen observations of human behavior are reminiscent of those in the "Court and Spark" stand-out "People's Parties". And, of course, the album's grande finale, the writer at the height of her craft, is illustrated in the final cut, titled "The Sire Of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song". More Passion Play that mere song, "The Sire Of Sorrow" soars on sweeping melodies and brilliant lyrics that most writers strive for but most shall never achieve.
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The 1996 Grammy winner for best pop album, Joni Mitchell's Turbulent Indigo is the singer's most distinctive and rewarding work since Wild Things Run Fast in 1982. Coproduced by Mitchell and her longtime collaborator and former husband Larry Klein, Turbulent Indigo is perhaps the only one of her '80s and '90s discs on which she isn't unduly hampered by studio technology. Whereas her rotten taste in synthesizers lent an automatically dated sound to 1988's Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm and 1998's Taming the Tiger, here the gadgetry is unobtrusive and enhances the power of Mitchell's voice and guitar playing. It also helps that this batch of songs is particularly evocative and well written, ranging from the graceful "How Do You Stop," on which she wonders how to stop "love from slipping away," to the wonderful vignette "Yvette in English," which describes a chance encounter between Picasso and a reluctant model. Paintings and painters are obviously a major theme on the disc--the cover is Mitchell's portrait of herself in the guise of Van Gogh--but more striking is her pessimistic view of humanity. "The Magdalene Laundries" describes the fate of girls left pregnant and abandoned in convent laundry rooms, "Not to Blame" details "the miseries made of love" for all the world's battered wives, and the title of "Sex Kills" is entirely self-explanatory. "The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song)," the album's finale, is nothing less than the cries of the much-put-upon Job against a heartless God who makes "everything I dread and everything I fear come true." The plaintive beauty of the music helps sweeten the potential sourness of Mitchell's lyrics. Indeed, the contrast gives great force to Turbulent Indigo and confirms that Mitchell's intellectual prowess and willfully contrary outlook are two qualities sorely missing in the work of many of the contemporary songwriters who cite her as their godhead. --Jason AndersonPop Music CDs
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