MERRY CHRISTMAS JONI AND A HAPPY NEW WONDERFUL YEAR!!!!
martedì 23 dicembre 2008
mercoledì 12 novembre 2008
sabato 8 novembre 2008
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONI !!!
guess you spent it with your enlarged family,and i'm glad for you cause your daughter can enjoy a wonderful mamacita!!!
the link between a mother and her daughter is something really precious and deep.so happy birthday twice!!!
p.s.:the book of your songs translated in italian has finally arrived.some years ago i gave my copy to my cousin,as a present,and now ,by other ways ,it has returned to me...
the silver links...
guess you spent it with your enlarged family,and i'm glad for you cause your daughter can enjoy a wonderful mamacita!!!
the link between a mother and her daughter is something really precious and deep.so happy birthday twice!!!
p.s.:the book of your songs translated in italian has finally arrived.some years ago i gave my copy to my cousin,as a present,and now ,by other ways ,it has returned to me...
the silver links...
sabato 25 ottobre 2008
a beautiful poem
Poetry
Bad Dreams Are Good
by Joni Mitchell September 17, 2007
The cats are in the flower beds;
Bad Dreams;
Environment;
Cell Phones;
Telephones;
The Great Plan;
Eden
The cats are in the flower beds
A red hawk rides the sky
I guess I should be happy
Just to be alive
But
We have poisoned everything
And oblivious to it all
The cell-phone zombies babble
Through the shopping malls
While condors fall from Indian skies
Whales beach and die in sand
Bad Dreams are good
In the Great Plan
And you cannot be trusted
Do you even know you are lying?
It’s dangerous to kid yourself
You go deaf, dumb, and blind
You take with such entitlement
You give bad attitude
You have No grace
No empathy
No gratitude
You have no sense of consequence
Oh, my head is in my hands
Bad Dreams are good
In the Great Plan
Before that altering apple
We were one with everything
No sense of self and other
No self-consciousness
But now we have to grapple
With this man-made world backfiring
Keeping one eye on our brother’s deadly selfishness
Everyone’s a victim here
Nobody’s hands are clean
There’s so very little left of wild Eden Earth
So near the jaws of our machines
We live in these electric scabs
These lesions once were lakes
We don’t know how to shoulder blame
Or learn from past mistakes
So who will come to save the day?
Mighty Mouse. . . ? Superman. . . ?
Bad Dreams are good
In the Great Plan
In the dark
A shining ray
I heard a three-year-old boy say
Bad Dreams are good
In the Great Plan
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2007/09/17/070917po_poem_mitchell
venerdì 24 ottobre 2008
• Song To A Seagull (Joni Mitchell) (1968)
• Clouds (1969)
• Ladies Of The Canyon (1970)
• Blue (1971)
• For The Roses (1972)
• Court And Spark (1974)
• The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (1975)
• Hejira (1976)
• Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977)
• Mingus (1979)
• Wild Things Run Fast (1982)
• Dog Eat Dog (1985)
• Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm (1988)
• Night Ride Home (1991)
• Turbulent Indigo (1994)
• Taming The Tiger (1998)
• Both Sides Now (2000)
• Songs Of A Prairie Girl (2005)
• Shine (2007)
sisotowbell lane
SISOTOWBELL LANE
Sisotowbell Lane
Noah is fixing the pump in the rain
He brings us no shame
We always knew that he always knew
Up over the hill
Jovial neighbors come down when they will
With stories to tell
Sometimes they do
Yes sometimes we do
We have a rocking chair
Each of us rocks his share
Eating muffin buns and berries
By the steamy kitchen window
Sometimes we do
Our tongues turn blue
Sisotowbell Lane
Anywhere else now would seem very strange
The seasons are changing
Everyday in everyway
Sometimes it is spring
Sometimes it is not anything
A poet can sing
Sometimes we try
Yes we always try
We have a rocking chair
Somedays we rock and stare
At the woodlands and the grasslands and the badlands 'cross the river
Sometimes we do
We like the view
Sisotowbell Lane
Go to the city you'll come back again
To wade thru the grain
You always do
Yes we always do
Come back to the stars
Sweet well water and pickling jars
We'll lend you the car
We always do
Yes sometimes we do
We have a rocking chair
Someone is always there
Rocking rhythms while they're waiting with the candle in the window
Sometimes we do
We wait for you
Testi di Joni Mitchell
Sisotowbell Lane
Noah is fixing the pump in the rain
He brings us no shame
We always knew that he always knew
Up over the hill
Jovial neighbors come down when they will
With stories to tell
Sometimes they do
Yes sometimes we do
We have a rocking chair
Each of us rocks his share
Eating muffin buns and berries
By the steamy kitchen window
Sometimes we do
Our tongues turn blue
Sisotowbell Lane
Anywhere else now would seem very strange
The seasons are changing
Everyday in everyway
Sometimes it is spring
Sometimes it is not anything
A poet can sing
Sometimes we try
Yes we always try
We have a rocking chair
Somedays we rock and stare
At the woodlands and the grasslands and the badlands 'cross the river
Sometimes we do
We like the view
Sisotowbell Lane
Go to the city you'll come back again
To wade thru the grain
You always do
Yes we always do
Come back to the stars
Sweet well water and pickling jars
We'll lend you the car
We always do
Yes sometimes we do
We have a rocking chair
Someone is always there
Rocking rhythms while they're waiting with the candle in the window
Sometimes we do
We wait for you
Testi di Joni Mitchell
giovedì 23 ottobre 2008
her first album
Joni Mitchell (1968)
- Already a well-known songwriter with hits for Judy Collins and Tom Rush, she declined to record any of her familiar songs on her debut album, instead releasing sparely arranged, folky songs that either hit the mark dead on ("Cactus Tree") or wander off into obscurity ("The Pirate of Penance"). (DBW)
- One of her most musically challenging efforts, with a bunch of complex, moody, ultra-serious tunes that are hard to follow ("Nathan La Franeer") and often go on too long ("The Dawntreader") But everything that makes her early period so great is here to be heard: incredibly clear and powerful vocals; elaborate acoustic guitar picking; heavy lyrics with tons of metaphors; and a totally pure art-for-art's-sake attitude ("I Had A King"). "Cactus Tree" is really memorable, the flamenco-like "Penance" has a chilling melody and a fascinating second vocal part, there are no embarassments, and although the minor works wouldn't have made it onto Blue, they're enjoyable (the lush, romantic "Michael From Mountains"; "Sisotowbell Lane"; the oddly-timed "Song To A Seagull"). Everything's solo with guitar apart from the pop-flavored "Night In The City," which gets Simon & Garfunkel-like bass, harpsichord-like piano, and counterpoint harmonies. Also known as Song To A Seagull, this was "produced" by David Crosby, meaning that he got her into the studio and let her loose. (JA)
from http://www.warr.org/joni.html#Joni
venerdì 17 ottobre 2008
TIMELINE
November 7, 1943: Roberta Joan Anderson (a.k.a. Joni Mitchell) is born in Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada.
January 21, 1967: The first recording of a Joni Mitchell song, country singer George Hamilton IV’s version of “Urge for Going,” enters Billboard’s Hot Country Singles chart. Mitchell’s own version would later appear as the B side of the 1972 single “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio.”
March 9, 1968: Joni Mitchell’s untitled debut album, produced by David Crosby and sometimes referred to as ‘Song to a Seagull,’ is released.
December 1, 1968: Joni Mitchell and Graham Nash move into “Our House” on Laurel Canyon’s Lookout Mountain Road.
August 18, 1969: Joni Mitchell is slated to perform at Woodstock but is advised to honor a commitment to appear on Dick Cavett’s TV talk show. In lieu of appearing at that landmark event, she writes the anthemic tribute, “Woodstock.”
January 1, 1970: David Geffen establishes Asylum Records. The first artist he signs is Jackson Browne. The label’s roster eventually will include Linda Ronstadt, the Eagles, Joni Mitchell, J.D. Souther and numerous other Los Angeles musicians.
March 1, 1970: Joni Mitchell’s Ladies of the Canyon, featuring “Big Yellow Taxi,” enters the Top 30 on the Billboard album chart.
December 14, 1972: For the Roses, Joni Mitchell’s first album for David Geffen’s new Asylum label, is released. It reaches #11 and “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio” is a minor hit single.
February 3, 1973: Joni Mitchell hits #25 with “You Turn Me On, I’m a Radio.”
February 2, 1974: ‘Court and Spark’, a tuneful, jazz-tinged album containing some of Joni Mitchell’s most accessible work, enters the album chart. It goes on to sell four million copies and launch two Top Forty singles: “Help Me” (#7) and “Free Man in Paris” (#22).
December 14, 1974: ‘Miles of Aisles’, a live double album documenting Joni Mitchell’s tour in the wake of ‘Court and Spark’s’ commercial breakthrough, is released. It is recorded during four-night stand in August 1974 and finds her backed by Tom Scott and the L.A. Express.
February 15, 1975: Joni Mitchell hits #24 with “Big Yellow Taxi”.
July 14, 1979: Joni Mitchell’s collaboration with jazz bass player and bandleader Charles Mingus, simply titled Mingus, is released a half-year after his death.
November 14, 1982: Joni Mitchell’s first studio album of the Eighties, ‘Wild Things Run Fast’, is released. Only two more albums will be forthcoming in the decade: ‘Dog Eat Dog’ (1985) and ‘Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm’ (1988).
February 19, 1991: ‘Night Ride Home, Joni Mitchell’s 16th album, inaugurates the Nineties. It would be followed by ‘Turbulent Indigo’ (1994) and two complementary and simultaneously released compendiums, ‘Hits’ and ‘Misses’.
December 6, 1995: Joni Mitchell is presented with the Century Award at the Billboard Music Awards.
February 28, 1996: ‘Turbulent Indigo’, Joni Mitchell’s 17th album, wins a Grammy for Best Pop Album at the 38th annual Grammy Awards.
May 6, 1997: Joni Mitchell inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the twelfth annual induction dinner. Shawn Colvin is her presenter.
March 14, 2000: Both Sides Now, an album of love songs by Joni Mitchell and other songwriters, is released. She is accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra.
mercoledì 15 ottobre 2008
coreography
Ballet and music fans at home and abroad are eagerly awaiting Thursday evening's premiere of the Alberta Ballet production set to the artwork and music of Joni Mitchell.
The evening program, entitled Dancing Joni and Other Works, is set for Calgary's Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium and will include the debut of The Fiddle and The Drum — a ballet created by Mitchell and acclaimed choreographer Jean Grand-Maître — as well as a performance of George Balanchine's Serenade.
Grand-Maître, Alberta Ballet's artistic director, said the multimedia collaboration that has sparked interest across Canada, the U.S. and Europe was a project that piqued Mitchell's interest right from the start.
"The idea of putting dance and visual arts and her music together at the same time on a stage was something that interested her a lot," he told CBC News on Thursday afternoon.
However, the Canadian music icon nixed Grand-Maître's initial idea of creating a work based on the life of the Alberta-born, Saskatchewan-raised singer-songwriter and artist.
"That didn't interest her as much as a ballet about more relevant issues concerning the environment and the wars and the aggression going on worldwide today," he said, adding that they took inspiration from one of Mitchell's recent visual art exhibitions in Los Angeles, where she now lives.
"These are themes she has been intensely preoccupied with in the past decade and certainly this ballet is a continuation of these concerns," he said.
Mitchell selected nine songs from over her wide-ranging musical career for The Fiddle and The Drum, including three new compositions that will be heard for the first time ever on Thursday night.
She also created a video installation to be projected above the dancers, with whom she has been rehearsing, Grand-Maître said.
"It's been a very intimate and powerful collaboration."
venerdì 10 ottobre 2008
lunedì 11 febbraio 2008
Joni Mitchell è la donna più importante e più influente nel panorama musicale del XX secolo.La sua musica si è evoluta dall'introspettivo folk al jazz,all'avanguardia e anche alla world music,creando in anticipo gli esperimenti multiculturali degli anni '80 e 90.Fieramente indipendente,si erge con la sua musica al di sopra dell'industria musicale maschile.Nacque come Roberta Joan Anderson a Fort McLeod,nell'Alberta,Canada il 7 novembre del 1943.la sua infanzia non fu facile:si ammalò di poliomelite all'età di 9 anni,ma questo suo handicap anzichè farle perdere speranza,la stimolò ad essere creativa:fu proprio durante la malattia che cominciò a cantare per il suo primo pubblico,i suoi compagni convalescenti.Poco tempo dopo cominciò ad imparare a suonare la chitarra con un libro di Pete Seeger,si iscrisse alla scuola d'Arte e divento ben presto famosa nella scena musicale folk dell'Alberta.Dopo essersi trasferita a vivere a Toronto,sposò il folksinger Chuck Mitchell nel 1965,e cominciò ad esibirsi col nome di Joni Mitchell...
giovedì 31 gennaio 2008
mercoledì 30 gennaio 2008
La prima volta
Ero una ragazzina che amava il caro vecchio Neil Young,nell'età in cui si cerca di scoprire il più possibile dalla vita,ma nn si hanno ancora le prime cotte,per cui si è più ricettivi e capienti nei confronti degli idoli musicali.Avevo un'amica impallata di musica come me,forse meno ,forse più,chissà...
Un giorno andammo al cine a vedere "The Last Waltz",il film di Scorsese su The Band.Ovviamente nn sapevamo altro che c'era Neil nel film,e già quello fu fonte di estrema soddisfazione per me...ma nulla fu paragonabile,seppure tutto il film merita parecchio per le varie esibizioni,al vedere suonare quella bellissima donna dai capelli lunghi ,lisci e fini ,biondi,di nome Joni Mitchell!
In quel momento,quando la sentii accompagnarsi con la chitarra in quella che avrei scoperto dopo trattavasi di un accordatura aperta,decisi che nn l'avrei più dimenticata,che sarebbe entrata a far parte dei miei idoli-modelli musicali,se si può mai ammettere che gli idoli siano anche modelli(che arroganza!:-) e che avrei comprato tuti i suoi dischi fino ad averne la collezione completa.
Mi piaceva,nel film era bella,affascinante,ondeggiante.Per me da allora ha rappresentato il Genio fatto Donna.Le sono estremamente grata per tutto quello che mi ha trasmesso con la sua musica,i suoi testi...i suoi dipinti.Sì,perchè come dice lei:
"First i am a painter,second i am a musician"...
Un giorno andammo al cine a vedere "The Last Waltz",il film di Scorsese su The Band.Ovviamente nn sapevamo altro che c'era Neil nel film,e già quello fu fonte di estrema soddisfazione per me...ma nulla fu paragonabile,seppure tutto il film merita parecchio per le varie esibizioni,al vedere suonare quella bellissima donna dai capelli lunghi ,lisci e fini ,biondi,di nome Joni Mitchell!
In quel momento,quando la sentii accompagnarsi con la chitarra in quella che avrei scoperto dopo trattavasi di un accordatura aperta,decisi che nn l'avrei più dimenticata,che sarebbe entrata a far parte dei miei idoli-modelli musicali,se si può mai ammettere che gli idoli siano anche modelli(che arroganza!:-) e che avrei comprato tuti i suoi dischi fino ad averne la collezione completa.
Mi piaceva,nel film era bella,affascinante,ondeggiante.Per me da allora ha rappresentato il Genio fatto Donna.Le sono estremamente grata per tutto quello che mi ha trasmesso con la sua musica,i suoi testi...i suoi dipinti.Sì,perchè come dice lei:
"First i am a painter,second i am a musician"...
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