Staff Review
In response to a burst of creative energy, Joni Mitchell has had a very busy year. It started with her being co-creator and artistic director for a ballet based on her music, followed by a politically charged visual art exhibition due to commence in New York this month. Amongst all of this she found time and inspiration for an album of beautiful melodies, with occasionally dark lyrics that express her theological and social awareness of a need to protect this beloved planet. Fans will be pleased to hear a new treatment of her 70s anthem Big Yellow Taxi and an exquisite adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling Poem ‘If ’, believed to be a lifetime favourite of hers. At times musically sparse, her familiar improvisational jazz styling is always dusted with her brooding voice.
Alice Bisits is from Readings Malvern