Product Description
Mitchell Curates Four-Disc Collection Featuring 53 Newly Remastered Songs Recorded Throughout Her Landmark Career That Evoke Her Vision Of Love

Joni Mitchell’s new four-disc boxed set LOVE HAS MANY FACES: A QUARTET, A BALLET, WAITING TO BE DANCED was first conceived as the music to a ballet about love. But after spending 18 months trying to distill everything she’d written about love—and the lack of it—down to a single disc, the influential singer-songwriter abandoned the ballet. “I wanted the music to feel like a total work—a new work. No matter what I did, though, at that length, it remained merely a collection of songs,” she writes in the set’s liner notes.

Undaunted, Mitchell did not give up. Instead, she continued to sequence her songs, determined to prove to herself that what she was after was possible. After two years, she had created a four-act ballet based on the 53 songs that make up this inspiring collection. “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,” the artist writes.

LOVE HAS MANY FACES will be available on November 17, 2014. It truly is an artist-curated collection. Mitchell selected the material from 40 years of recording. She designed the package. The package is a book containing 53 lyrical poems, six new paintings, and an autobiographical text illuminating her recording process. It is funny, mystical, and informative.

Mitchell organized the music into different thematic acts, which allowed her songs to interact with one another in a whole new way. The process, she says, was a lot like making a film. “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.”

Long time listeners should find the music familiar but fresh. There has been a lot of sonic adjustment. Newcomers to this music have an adventure before them – a journey into highly-original, harmonically innovative, unusually rhythmic music. Some of the greatest musicians in the world are gathered here – supporting this emotionally charged exploration of love’s many faces.

CD1
1. In France They Kiss On Main Street
2. Ray's Dad's Cadillac
3. You Turn Me On I'm A Radio
4. Harlem In Havana
5. Car On A Hill
6. Dancin' Clown
7. River
8. Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody
9. Harry's House/Centerpiece
10. Shades Of Scarlett Conquering
11. Number One
12. The Windfall (Everything For Nothing)
13. Come In From The Cold

CD2
1. Court And Spark
2. No Apologies
3. Trouble Child
4. Not To Blame
5. Nothing Can Be Done
6. Comes Love
7. Moon At The Window
8. Blue
9. Tax Free
10. The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey
11. Hana
12. Hejira
13. Stay In Touch
14. Night Ride Home

CD3
1. You're My Thrill
2. The Crazy Cries Of Love
3. Love Puts On A New Face
4. Borderline
5. A Strange Boy
6. You Dream Flat Tires
7. Love
8. All I Want
9. Be Cool
10. Yvette In English
11. Just Like This Train
12. Carey
13. The Only Joy In Town

CD4
1. Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
2. Two Grey Rooms
3. God Must Be A Boogie Man
4. Down To You
5. A Case Of You
6. The Last Time I Saw Richard
7. Raised On Robbery
8. Sweet Sucker Dance
9. Lakota
10. Cool Water
11. Amelia
12. Both Sides Now
13. My Best To You

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at first glance and perhaps to the uninitiated, this set might seem intriguing.
however, on second glance, it strikes me as a missed opportunity to showcase even one rarity.
what comes to mind is the original version of "man from mars" actually performed by JM
on the original version of the Grace Of My Heart OST - having been miscredited to Kristen Vangard,
appearing only on the pre-release promo and/or first pressing of the discs,
recalled by the MCA label days prior to the release date, then replaced WITH the actual Kristen Vangard version for official release.
i am fortunate to have been working in a music shop at that time,
and i respectfully did NOT return my copy of the disc.
if you are not familiar with the melancholy and languid beauty of this original version,
it is only more than worth your time and effort to search it out.

Thanks for the tip. As there is a great series of hi-res JM flat transfers at HD Tracks, I see no point in picking this up.

I'm such a sucker, but I'm probably getting this. Some day my children will wonder why I bought it, along with the hatbox version of Both Sides Now.

from the 'hatbox,' i actually framed the two of JM's postcard-print self portraits of her at a bar and hung them on exact opposite sides of the same wall in my home. lovely! but i'm pretty much just a music whore - (and i mean no discourtesy to prostitutes when i say that).

Bump: Release date changed (see thread title).

why do they(does she) keep recycling her legacy.

what have there been now 4 best of CD"s? (that had 1 new song on them) and the geffen box.(which had 3 (i think) new songs)

i'm probably missing some too.

if people want to hear joni mitchell, then buy the god damn joni mitchel;l albums....there aren't that many of them.

I'm no Joni Mitchell expert but I believe she held out longer than most artists before releasing her first Greatest Hits album. In fact, I recall reading that she was very reluctant to do so, concerned it might dry up people's interest in her regular catalog. I think it was David Geffen (the Free Man In Paris himself) who finally convinced her otherwise.

well, she has definitely made up for the wait!

The American pre-order price has dropped by about $11, and is now $48.99:

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