Hints and tips:
...When Mitchell adds her voice to the song, she sings in a lower pitch than before. However, her phrasing and feel for melody remain intact....
...Here, the vibe is funky, riffs get repeated and melodies are clear....
...Former hippy enclaves such as Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles are treated as dreamy utopias where the grooves are forever easy and the melodies always sweet....
...Mitchell and Johnson chorus, cynically, hedonistically, “Blue sky, Lord, when I die”....
...To listen to Weyes Blood’s music is to be soothed by lush vocals and ethereal melodies....
...“As a performer she would take songs and over the next three to four nights she would change melodies and form new versions of what she’d been singing. She was a musician’s singer.”...
...Maybe one was Joni Mitchell’s “Harry’s House/Centrepiece”, with which Harry’s House shares its name. (“Love the title,” was Mitchell’s tweeted response.)...
...Hushed rhythmic swells and murmuring melodies give the song’s sense of accomplishment a placid bearing....
...However, on the bright side, the piped music was by the excellent electronic duo Röyksopp, whose record Melody AM is a wonderful record to relax or to work to....
...With four decades’ hindsight, the band’s other ingredients were clear; guitar soloing straight out of pub rock, vocal geometry as angular as post-punk, the storytelling of Joni Mitchell....
...It has this melancholic melody, and the lyrics speak of the feeling of being in love and the walls becoming a forest and the ceiling turning into a sky… I love the image and the idea of emotional elements...
...The Los Angeles songwriter has been listening to more than just Joni Mitchell, and the album not only invites but practically forces the listener to play spot-the-influence....
...There’s an impulsive, restless pulse that bristles enticingly under the wistful melodies, as well as an ability to balance intimacy and grand scale; the rich instrumentation on “Latter Days” includes evocative...
...Melodies shimmer almost psychedelically at the edge of the action, like heat haze....
...But that version of Marling would have forgotten Joni Mitchell’s existence. Song For Our Daughter is her seventh solo album....
...The vocals on the first two tracks in particular — “Trouble in Paradise” and “Damsel in Distress” — are layered, gospelly and rich, while pedal steel guitar evokes 1970s Elton John (throughout, producer Mitchell...
...Spartan guitar melodies open up hidden depths of feeling. Vocals are uttered in a steady baritone voice, as though dredging language for meaning....
...Joni Mitchell’s 1970 album Ladies of the Canyon symbolises its freewheeling mythos....
...The Americans first played together as part of jazz avant-gardist Roscoe Mitchell’s Note Factory, in 2002 — they can be heard on the Pi release Song for My Sister....
...Director Katie Mitchell and her British team further complicate matters by tinkering with the text and splitting the monologue between actor Ben Whishaw and soprano Renée Fleming....
...The woody pentatonic melodies are pleasant, the cross-stitch rhythms well-worked and the unison stabs formidable....
...They harmonised in support, fleshed out melodies with wordless scat and led the joyous waltz “Speak to Me of Love, Speak to Me of Truth”....
...Lindsay was one of the founders of Tunng, celebrated for bringing what he has called “electronica, glitch, cut’n’paste twistedness” to Wicker Man folk melody....
...On the smaller Tipi Tent stage, The Weather Station used guitars more conventionally in the service of Tamara Lindeman’s rich and steady voice, sometimes fluting like Joni Mitchell, sometimes dark and treacly...
...The programme included the classically influenced “Weird Nightmare” from 1947 as well as “God Must be a Boogie Man” and “The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines”, both written in collaboration with Joni Mitchell...
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