What’s on Human Mind?

pic pic Joni Mitchell Submitted to Dr. Remedios Biavati Submitted by Jacqueline T. Sangalang 2P4 LIT101A Joni Mitchell Born Roberta Joan Anderson November 7, 1943 is a Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native westmostern Canada and then busking on the streets of Toronto. In the mid-1960s she left for New York City and its rich category music scene, playscripting her de save album in 1968 and achieving fame first as a songwriter ( lead for Going, Chelsea Morning, Both Sides Now, Woodstock) and then as a singer in her experience right.Finally settling in Southern California, Mitchell played a key part in the kin group rock movement then sweeping the musical landscape. Blue, her starkly personal 1971 album, is regarded as one of the strongest and near influential records of the time. Mitchell to a fault had pop hits such as Big Yellow Taxi, Free military personnel in Paris, and Help Me, the last two from 1974s best-sellin g Court and Spark.Mitchells soprano vocals, distinctive accordant guitar trend, and piano arrangements all grew more complex through the 1970s as she was deeply influenced by jazz, melding it with pop, kinfolk and rock on experimental albums like 1976s Hejira. She worked closely with jazz greats including Pat Metheny, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Herbie Hancock, and on a 1979 record released after his death, Charles Mingus.From the 1980s on, Mitchell reduced her recording and touring schedule and turned again toward pop, making greater use of synthesizers and direct political protest in her lyrics, which often tackled social and environmental themes alongside amatory and emotional ones. Mitchells work is highly respected both by critics and fellow musicians. Rolling Stone magazine called her one of the greatest songwriters ever, while All music said, When the dust settles, Joni Mitchell may stand as the or so important and influential female recording artist of the late 20t h century. By the end of the century, Mitchell had a profound influence on artists in genres ranging from R&B to alternative rock to jazz. Mitchell is also a visual artist. She make the artwork for each of her albums, and in 2000 described herself as a painter derailed by circumstance. A blunt critic of the music industry, Mitchell had stopped recording over the last several years, counselling more attention on painting, but in 2007 she released Shine, her first album of new songs in guild years.Cultural Background Western Canada Western Canada, also referred to as the Western provinces and commonly as the West, is a region of Canada generally including all parts of Canada west of the province of Ontario. The West is considered by many to be a cultural region with an identity separate from that of the rest of Canada. The special cultural, political and economic characteristics of the West are, however, not universally agreed upon, nor are its eographical limits and stereotypes o f the West mask the cultural, physical and historical differences within this ample and varied region. In Canadian politics, the term the West is used misleadingly in Canadian media style guides as shorthand for the Conservative leanings of Western Canadians, as contrasted with the greater likelihood for candidates from either the detached companionship of Canada or the New Democratic Party (NDP) to be elected in Central Canada (although the NDPs roots are in Saskatchewan and British Columbia).Exceptions exist, particularly in British Columbia, as well as in the prairie cities of Winnipeg and Regina, where the Liberal Party currently h sometime(a) seats, as well as in other major urban centers such as Edmonton where Liberal and NDP candidates have been elected in recent history. The social democratic NDP had its origins on the Canadian Prairies and in the mining and pulp mill towns and railway camps of British Columbia, and has a history of stomach in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. Both Sides Now Composed and Performed by Joni Mitchell Rows and flows of angel hair, And ice cream castles in the air,And feathered canyons allwhere, Ive looked at clouds that way, But now they only block the sun. They rain and snow on everyone. So many things I would have done, But clouds got in my way. Ive looked at clouds from both sides now, From up and down, and still in some way, Its clouds illusions I recall. I really dont sleep with clouds at all. Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels, the dizzy bounce way you feel As every fairy tale comes real Ive looked at turn in that way. But now its just another show. You forswear em express mirth when you go And if you care, dont let them know, dont give yourself away. Ive looked at love from both sides now,From give and take, and still somehow Its loves illusions I recall. I really dont know love at all. Tears and fears and feeling proud, to assert I love you right out loud, Dreams and schemes and circus crowds , Ive looked at life that way. But now old friends are acting strange, they shake their heads, They say Ive changed. Somethings lost but somethings gained in living every day. Ive looked at life from both sides now, From win and lose, and still somehow Its lifes illusions I recall. I really dont know life at all. Both Sides Now is a concept album by Joni Mitchell released in 2000.It traces the advancement of the modern relationship through Mitchells orchestral renditions of classic jazz songs. Two of Mitchells own songs are also included, A Case of You (1971) and Both Sides, Now (1969). The orchestra was arranged and conducted by Vince Mendoza. In the liner notes, co-producer Larry Klein describes the album as a programmatic suite documenting a relationship from initial flirtation through optimistic consummation, metamorphosing into disillusionment, ironic despair, and finally resolving in the philosophical overview of acceptance and the probability of the cycle repeating itself. A limited browse of copies were released on February 8, 2000, in special chocolate-box packaging for Valentines Day, including several lithographs of original Mitchell paintings. Many of these were returned to stores as the CD toter in the box would not reliably hold the disc and copies often arrived scratched. A regular jewel-case edition was released on March 20, 2000. Both Sides Now is also available on DVD-Audio. As of December 2007, the album has sold 323,000 copies in the United States.On the concert tour tie-in to this album, Mitchell performed the songs in the same sequence, but opened with an overture, Nuages the first movement from Nocturnes, an orchestral suite composed by French composer Claude Debussy. Nuages means clouds in English. While the music certainly sets a romantic mood, the usage of this piece can be seen as a clever pun, since Clouds is also the name of the album on which the song Both Sides, Now made its original appearance. Both the album and the title song are featured in the film make do Actually (2003). *The picture on the upper left was the cover of Jonis album, CLOUD. REACTION I call back this song means that people have diametrical perceptions of what love and life are all closely when theyre children as opposed to when theyre adults. When we were children, we saw love as a fairytale, hence the line Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way you feel, as every fairytale comes real Ive looked at love that way. But when we became adults, we realized that love is NOT a fairytale, thus the line But now its just another show. You leave em laughing when you go, and if you care, dont let them know, dont give yourself away. Love and life can be painful, and children dont see that. They see love and life as a fairytale. It possibly means also that, there is no correct answer when it comes to slim things like love and life. They are too big and meaningful to be summed up by anything. there are certain things in l ife you can never learn about from a intensity or from other people, like this song suggests life and love you have to experience them, because they are different for every person. Well never understand everything. You can be an idealist, or you can be a cynic, but youre silly if you think you understand it all.