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The Hissing of Summer Lawns is the seventh studio album by the Canadian-American singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, released in November 1975 on Asylum Records. It continues the jazz-influenced sound of Mitchell's previous album, Court and Spark, with more unconventional and experimental material. It features sampling, synthesizers such as the ...
- Joni Mitchell
- November 1975
- 1975
With The Hissing of Summer Lawns nobody could any longer call her a ‘confessional songwriter’ (try to find any reference to ‘I’ in this album’s lyrics). Instead, much of the album is devoted to the ennui and the superficiality of upper middle-class America, especially the trophy wives. These were the baby-boomer women who were moulded ...
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Los Angeles Times. May 24, 2009. Original article: Will You Take Me as I Am. Joni Mitchell's Blue Period. Michelle Mercer. Free Press: 240 pp., $24.99. When Joni Mitchell thinks about confession, two things come to mind: witch hunts and Catholic priests. To be held up as the exemplar of confessional songwriting is not her preference.
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At the core of The Hissing Of Summer Lawns is the aesthetic vision. The finale ("Shadows And Light") is performed entirely by Mitchell. Exquisitely textured, multi-tracked vocals (some a cappella) are tinted with an ARP synthesizer in a lyrical Celtic/gospel hymn.
May 24, 2022 · A melting pot of legendary music from the likes of The Eagles, The Doors, and Crosby Stills Nash & Young. There she met Graham Nash and they fell madly in love; 'Our House' on CSN&Y's LP “Déjà vu” is about their relationship. But at a certain point, that became too stuffy for Joni Mitchell. She was still fighting her snake in the grass.
Jun 3, 2019 · That said, "The Hissing of Summer Lawns" is a fascinating piece of work. 3 The poetic interconnections, the musical idioms, the way Miss Mitchell expands her past styles (African drums, more synthesizer than ever) - all fuse into something unique in pop music. This really is the "total work" she tells us it is, and if that means she shows her ...
Nov 1, 2020 · Happy 45th Anniversary to Joni Mitchell’s seventh studio album The Hissing of Summer Lawns, originally released in November 1975 (specific release date N/A). Joni Mitchell made an October 2014 appearance at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, California to screen the film Love Has Many Faces, a ballet based on her music. Scores of fans showed up ...
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