From: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org (onlyJMDL Digest) To: onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Subject: onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #292 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-onlyjoni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Archives: http://www.smoe.org/lists/onlyjoni Websites: http://www.jmdl.com http://www.jonimitchell.com Unsubscribe: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe onlyJMDL Digest Friday, October 14 2005 Volume 2005 : Number 292 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Remix Project [Mark-Leon Thorne ] re: Ian Shaw's Joni Tribute & other Covers news [seulbzzaj@aol.com] Re: Joni and Canada [Karen Marie Espeland ] Re: Joni and Canada [Karen Marie Espeland ] JoniFest '06 ? [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:17:24 +1000 From: Mark-Leon Thorne Subject: Remix Project Hello all. Just another reminder that I'm still looking for contributions to the Joni Remix Project. Once I have enough tracks to fill a CD, I will be distributing it to the list, free of charge. Any remixes (not necessarily dance mixes) of Joni's songs are welcome, including single edits and mash ups. Thank you to all those who have contributed so far. Non professional mixes are welcome too. I have had two wonderful mixes from listers which will appear on the resulting CD. So, all you budding DJs and music producers, get mixing. Please send all mixes in mp3 format by e-mail off list. Mark in Sydney NP The Jungle Line (The Gerime Gungle Mix) _ JM ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:26:13 -0400 From: seulbzzaj@aol.com Subject: re: Ian Shaw's Joni Tribute & other Covers news From: "mike pritchard" >>Linn Records is pleased to release on Multichannel Super Audio CD Claire Martin's last album, Too Darn Hot!, widely considered to be her best recorded work to date. From Something's Coming from Bernstein's West Side Story, in an exciting new arrangement, to Joni Mitchell's Blue Motel Room, arranged by jazz singer Ian Shaw, the album has many jazz standards and delightful new arrangements of songs from other popular music genres. Too Darn Hot! is Claire's ninth album on Linn Records.<< Actually, Linn Records just released Claire Martin's 10th CD - a disc of duets with Richard Rodney Bennett. It's called "When Lights Are Low." While there are no Joni covers on this disc, to give the post some Joni content, Claire is singing "Be Cool" in her live performances, and singing it better than ever. I've been nudging her to record "Sweet Sucker Dance." Scott ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:38:08 +0200 From: Karen Marie Espeland Subject: Re: Joni and Canada Hi Laura! Thank you for your beautiful description of how the Canadian spirit reverberates through Joni's work, and how you are drawn to it. It seems as if nostalgia plays a part here, too. Cold weather and short days is definitely something we also can relate to here in Norway! Your mail was certainly inspiring to read - thank you! All the best! Karen Marie On 10/11/05, LCStanley7@aol.com wrote: > Karen Marie wrote: > it would be great if some of you would like to fill me in on what lies in > the Canadian spirit, and how traces of this can be found in Joni's art. > > > > Hi Karen Marie, > > I was born in Canada but have spent most of my life in the USA. I > visited Canada almost every year until I was in college. > > Part of why I'm drawn to Joni is her Canadian roots. When I think of > Canada, I think of the cold weather and relatively short days which could > lead to being depressed or introspective and creative or both. > > Joni reminds me of the plants in Canada. They are so alive and > colorful, so healthy, seemingly celebrating the growth season rather than > enduring it as in warmer climates. Joni bursts forth with color and details > other people tend to miss. She presents these in a way that cannot be > missed... like a flower rising up above the snow covered ground. > > "Winter beat the pines about, > He heard the heater, > Cutting in and out, > While she dreamed away..." > > I see her art as similar, one in the same, despite different mediums. > She shares experience through both her painting and singing. I see her > personal ambiance as giving forth Canada as she draws from her Canadian > roots. When she is in Dreamland, far from Canada, she's sings first of > Canada. > > I long for Canada, but I'm rarely able to go there any more. I find > Canada in my dreams and can dream better through Joni's art. > > Love, > Laura ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 14:54:15 +0200 From: Karen Marie Espeland Subject: Re: Joni and Canada Hi Michael, thank you so much for your account of Canadian diversities, it was clarifying! I also found the webcite-links helpful - particularly the one from the McGill's University. A couple of months ago I read that Joni received an Honored Doctorat of Music degree from the McGill's University - but I guess that is old news for all of you! http://www.smoothjazznow.com/artist_joni_mitchell.htm However, I never realized that the speeches from the symposium were available, so thanks for pointing that out. I've got quite a few things to work on now - thank you very much! Best wishes, Karen Marie On 10/11/05, Michael O'Malley wrote: > > Karen, > > I suspect that as in Norway, Canadian identity is very much a regional > thing, and is more subtle and complex than mounties, beavers and the maple > leaf. Joni's Canada are primarily the provinces of Saskatchewan (Maidstone, > Saskatoon), Alberta (Calgary) and British Columbia (her home on the ocean in > Sechelt). While she also spent some time in Toronto, I think it is safe to > say she has a western and prairie vision of Canada, very different from say, > the Maritime provinces in the east or French Quebec. > > The landscape features preeminently in both her writing and painting, and > this is surely tied to her sense of identity as a ``Prairie Girl.`` In fact, > a close reading of the songs presented on Joni's last compilation, SOAPGirl, > should give you many ideas to help connect the writing, the land and her > artwork. Joni is also an accomplished photographer - as the self portraits > of double-exposed images she made in Canada on the Night Ride Home album > testify. > > Last year, at the McGill Joni symposium in Montreal, a fellow by the name of > Udayan Sen gave an interesting talk on Joni's art, as revealed through her > album covers. You can hear and see his talk in streaming video at the > following link. Click the AM session, then move the cursor up to about hour > 01:27. > > http://www.mcgill.ca/music/events/jmitchell_symposium/ > > You willl also find some talk and images of some of Joni's art at the > following link > > http://www.jonimitchell.com/DiaryDecade/word.htm > > You can also hear Joni speak about place and its effect on identity and art > in the video, Woman of Heart and Mind. > > In 2000, the Mendel Art Gallery in Sakatoon had a show of her work and also > produced a catalogue of the show. See > http://www.mendel.ca/exhibitions/jonimitchell/ > > This should get you going. Enjoy, > > Michael in Quebec ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 12:56:21 -0400 From: Subject: JoniFest '06 ? If there's a summer JoniFest 06 anywhere in North America, I'll most likely be there. This new job has really changed my finances. Jim np: Patricia Barber's "Live: A Fortnight In France" on the desktop system at lunch break at work. ------------------------------ End of onlyJMDL Digest V2005 #292 ********************************* ------- Post messages to the list by clicking here: mailto:joni@smoe.org Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:onlyjoni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe ------- Siquomb, isn't she? (http://www.siquomb.com/siquomb.cfm)