JONI MITCHELL -- LOVE HAS MANY FACES OUT TODAY ON RHINO
Mitchell
Curates Four-Disc Collection Featuring 53 Newly Remastered Songs
Recorded Throughout Her Landmark Career That Evoke Her Vision Of Love
Mitchell to Appear On PBS' Tavis Smiley On
Tuesday, November 25th For Rare Interview
"Joni Mitchell always has been, and will always be, utterly irreplaceable"
-Rolling Stone
LOS
ANGELES - NOVEMBER 24, 2014 - Joni Mitchell's new four-disc boxed set
LOVE HAS MANY FACES: A QUARTET, A BALLET, WAITING TO BE DANCED is
available at retailers today. The four-disc collection features 53 newly
remastered songs recorded throughout her landmark career. Mitchell
selected the material from 40 years of recording and designed the
package, which includes 53 lyrical poems, six new paintings, and an
autobiographical text illuminating her recording process. The set is
available for a suggested list price of $59.98.
On Tuesday, November 25th Joni Mitchell will return to PBS' Tavis Smiley to discuss the new release. For local airtimes, visit http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/.
LOVE
HAS MANY FACES: A QUARTET, A BALLET, WAITING TO BE DANCED was first
conceived as the music to a ballet about love. But after spending 18
months trying to distill everything she'd written about love-and the
lack of it-down to a single disc, the influential singer-songwriter
abandoned the ballet. "I wanted the music to feel like a total work-a
new work. No matter what I did, though, at that length, it remained
merely a collection of songs," she writes in the set's liner notes.
Undaunted,
Mitchell did not give up. Instead, she continued to sequence her songs,
determined to prove to herself that what she was after was possible.
After two years, she had created a four-act ballet based on the 53 songs
that make up this inspiring collection. "I am a painter who writes
songs. My songs are very visual. The words create scenes...What I have
done here is to gather some of these scenes (like a documentary
filmmaker) and by juxtaposition, edit them into a whole new work," the
artist writes.
Mitchell
organized the music into different thematic acts, which allowed her
songs to interact with one another in a whole new way. The process, she
says, was a lot like making a film. "I had forty years of footage to
review. Then, suddenly, scenes began to hook up. Then series began to
form. Instead of it being an emotional roller coaster ride as it was
before-crammed into one disc-themes began to develop. Moods sustained. I
was getting there...When this long editorial process (two years)
finally came to rest, I had four ballets or a four-act ballet-a quartet.
I also had a box set."
Long
time listeners should find the music familiar but fresh. There has been
a lot of sonic adjustment. Newcomers to this music have an adventure
before them - a journey into highly-original, harmonically innovative,
unusually rhythmic music. Some of the greatest musicians in the world
are gathered here - supporting this emotionally charged exploration of
love's many faces.
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