Shine (Joni Mitchell album)

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Shine
Studio album by Joni Mitchell

Publication
(s)

2007

Label (s) Hear Music
Universal

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Folk Jazz Rock

Title (number)

10

running time

46:57 min

occupation

production

Joni Mitchell

chronology
Songs of a Prairie Girl
(2005) 		Shine -

Shine is the 17th studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell and was released on September 25, 2007 by Starbucks ' Hear Music . In nine years it was the songwriter's first album with new songs after Taming the Tiger from 1998.

Joni Mitchell, who claims to have retired from the music business, signed a two-album deal with Starbucks' Hear Music that began with the release of Shine. The 10-track CD "feels like the return of the storyteller Joni Mitchell," said Ken Lombard, President of Starbucks Entertainment, who is also the patron of Hear Music. Mitchell previously recorded for Warner Music.

In the United States, the album sold about 40,000 copies in the first week of its release and immediately went to number 14 on the Billboard 200 list; that was Joni Mitchell's best top position in America since 1976's Hejira album . Shine also peaked at number 36 on the UK lists, making it Mitchell's first top 40 album since 1991.

In its first week of sales, Shine sold approximately 60,000 copies worldwide.

idea

The album was played live with an accompanying choreographed ballet dance performed by the Alberta Ballet. It was filmed and shown to an audience on September 25, 2007 in New York City at the Sunshine Theater on Houston Street . The ballet backdrop was decorated with photographs by Joni Mitchell. These photos were taken with a camera aimed at an inverted image television wall producing a green and white image. The photos were also exhibited at the Violet Ray Gallery the same night the film was shown. The cover of Shine shows a still photo of the ballet dancers.

history

In 2002 Joni Mitchell had turned away from the music business. It was not until she was approached by the Ottawa Citizen in October 2006 that the public found out that she had returned to songwriting and recording. In an interview with the daily, Mitchell revealed that she was "in the process of recording her first collection of new songs in nearly a decade," but gave no details. Four months later, Joni said in an interview with The New York Times that the album was made because of the Iraq War and "a remark your grandson made during a family argument": "Bad dreams are good - on the big plan" ('Bad dreams are good - in the great plan'). And although Mitchell told the New York Times that the album was titled either Strange Birds of Appetite or If , the title Shine was confirmed on their official website on March 15, 2007.

The Sunday Times reported in February 2007 that the album had "a minimal feel, a sparse drawing on their early work," adding that "Calm and Some Good Healers" had restored some of its vocal power. Mitchell himself described Shine as "the most meaningful work I've ever done."

Title list

  1. "One Week Last Summer" - 4:59
  2. "This Place" - 3:54
    • In an interview, Mitchell referred to the fact that she was encouraged to do a "second guitar song when it was decided to dig this mountain behind my sacred place and sell it as rubble for run -of-the- mill houses in California [sic] ."
  3. "If I Had a Heart" - 4:04
    • "If I Had a Heart, I'd Cry" is to be understood as a reaction to the state of the environment and what Mitchell called the ongoing "holy war". In February 2007, The New York Times described the song as "one of the most haunting melodies she has ever written". As a stimulus to write the song, Mitchell stated, “My heart is broken at the stupidity of my species. I can't cry about it. In a way, I'm vaccinated against it. I've experienced this pain for so long ... The West has put the whole world on a runaway train. We are on the way to extinguishing ourselves as a species. "
  4. "Hana" - 3:43
  5. "Bad Dreams" - 5:41
    • “Bad Dreams Are Good” was inspired by a remark that Mitchell's grandson made at the age of three: “Bad dreams are good, in the great plan.” (“Bad dreams are good, in the great plan.”) In one BBC2 radio interview with Amanda Ghost in March 2007 jokingly said that she had promised to "cut him in for the benefit of the song."
    • The lyrics to the song were published on September 17, 2007 as a poem in the New Yorker .
  6. " Big Yellow Taxi (2007)" - 2:47
    • Mitchell's environmentally themed hit single from 1970, which was then released on the LP Ladies of the Canyon , in a new version.
  7. " Night of the Iguana " - 4:38
  8. "Strong and Wrong" - 4:04
  9. "Shine" - 7:29
    • Toronto Globe and Mail described this song as "a luscious lullaby for the soul"
    • The text refers to the "Rev. Pearson" Carlton Pearson .
  10. "If" - 5:32

Music album sales lists

Albums lists Great
place
US Billboard Charts 14th
US Top Digital Albums 21st
US Top Internet Albums 8th
US top rock albums 3
UK album charts 36
Canadian album charts 13
Australian album charts 71
Norway Album Charts 10
Sweden Album Charts 25th
French album charts 103
Netherlands album charts 44
Italian album charts 30th
Irish album charts 59
Swiss album charts 100
European Top 100 Albums 56
United World Charts 24

Awards

The title One Week Last Summer received a Grammy in the category "Best Pop Instrumental Performance".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b JoniMitchell.com Latest News (the update refers to a March 27th BBC broadcast about new songs "six months before their first LP is out in ten years" with the indication of a release date in September)
  2. ↑ Katie Hasty, “Rascal Flatts Races To No. 1 In Debut-Heavy Week, " Billboard.com, October 3, 2007.
  3. ↑ Doug Fischer: The trouble she's seen: Doug Fischer talks to Joni Mitchell about her seminal album, Hejira , The Ottawa Citizen. October 8, 2006. Retrieved March 9, 2007. 
  4. ^ A b David Yaffe: DANCE: Working Three Shifts, And Outrage Overtime , The New York Times. February 4, 2007. Retrieved March 9, 2007. 
  5. ^ A b Robin Eggar: The Renaissance Woman (reprint), Sunday Times. February 11, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 9, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jmdl.com 
  6. ^ Robin Eggar: Both Sides Now (reprint), Word. April 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 18, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jmdl.com 
  7. ↑ Come In From the Cold: The Return of Joni Mitchell , BBC2 radio program, March 20, 2007.
  8. ^ [1] , New Yorker, September 17, 2007.
  9. ↑ Alexandra Gill: Joni Mitchell in person (reprint), Toronto Globe and Mail. February 17, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 11, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jmdl.com 
  10. ^ Andrew Gumbel: The protest goes on: They bombed paradise (and I put up a multimedia extravaganza) (reprint), London Independent. February 9, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 18, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jmdl.com