Giveaway | Joni Mitchell Love Has Many Faces Box Set
By Scott Bernstein Nov 19, 2014 • 10:30 am PST
We’re giving away a copy to Love Has Many Faces. Head to our contest page for a chance to win the four-disc box set.
Joni started the project by spending 18 months trying to distill what she’d written over the years about love -or the lack of it -to a single disc as the music for a ballet about love but eventually gave up on the ballet. However, Mitchell did not give up and after two years, she had created a four-act ballet based on the 53 songs that make up Love Has Many Faces. “I am a painter who writes songs. My songs are very visual. The words create scenes…What I have done here is to gather some of these scenes (like a documentary filmmaker) and by juxtaposition, edit them into a whole new work,” Mitchell writes in the collection’s liner notes.
Mitchell picked tracks from the past 40 years for Love Has Many Faces and also designed the package, which contains 53 lyrical poems, six new paintings, and an autobiographical text illuminating her recording process. The songs on the box set have been organized into different thematic acts, which allowed Joni’s songs to interact with one another in a whole new way. “I had forty years of footage to review. Then, suddenly, scenes began to hook up. Then series began to form. Instead of it being an emotional roller coaster ride as it was before—crammed into one disc— themes began to develop. Moods sustained. I was getting there…When this long editorial process (two years) finally came to rest, I had four ballets or a four-act ballet—a quartet. I also had a box set,” Joni explained.
Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced is currently available for pre-order ahead of its November 24th release.
