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Released
  
October 25, 1994

Length
  
43:02

Turbulent Indigo (1994)
  
Hits (1996)

Release date
  
25 October 1994

Recorded
  
1993

Label
  
Reprise

Artist
  
Joni Mitchell

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Genres
  
Folk jazz, Alternative rock

Producers
  
Joni Mitchell, Larry Klein

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, Grammy Award for Best Recording Package

Similar
  
Joni Mitchell albums, Alternative rock albums

Joni mitchell turbulent indigo full album


Turbulent Indigo is the fifteenth album by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. Released in 1994, it won a Grammy Award for Pop Album of the Year. John Milward, writing for Rolling Stone, wrote that it was Mitchell's "best album since the mid-'70s".

Contents

The album marked her return to Warner Music (formerly WEA) distribution after her previous album, Night Ride Home, was distributed by MCA for its then-newly purchased subsidiary Geffen Records (which, prior to the sale to MCA, had distributed through WEA).

The album takes inspiration from the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh for Mitchell's self-portrait on the cover. The song "Turbulent Indigo" references Van Gogh, while the song "Magdalene Laundries" recounts the sufferings of Irish women once consigned to Magdalen Asylums run by the Roman Catholic Church and made to work in the asylum's laundries. The song "Not to Blame" was rumored to be about Mitchell's singer-songwriting colleague Jackson Browne who was alleged to have beaten his girlfriend, actress Daryl Hannah; Mitchell denies this.. The song "Sex Kills" referenced a number of late 20th century topical issues, including violence, AIDS, global warming and consumerism.

As of December 2007, the album has sold 311,000 copies in the US.

Joni mitchell turbulent indigo


Track listing

All tracks composed by Joni Mitchell; except where indicated

  1. "Sunny Sunday" – 2:21
  2. "Sex Kills" – 3:56
  3. "How Do You Stop" – 4:09 (Charlie Midnight, Dan Hartman)
  4. "Turbulent Indigo" – 3:34
  5. "Last Chance Lost" – 3:14
  6. "The Magdalene Laundries" – 4:02
  7. "Not to Blame" – 4:18
  8. "Borderline" – 4:48
  9. "Yvette in English" – 5:16 (Mitchell, David Crosby)
  10. "The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song)" – 7:08

Personnel

  • Joni Mitchell - vocals, guitar, keyboards
  • Larry Klein - organ, bass
  • Wayne Shorter - soprano saxophone on tracks: 1, 4, 7, 8, 10
  • Jim Keltner - drums on "Sunny Sunday"
  • Carlos Vega - drums on tracks: 3, 4, 7
  • Michael Landau - electric guitar on tracks: 2, 3
  • Greg Leisz - pedal steel guitar on tracks: 7, 8
  • Steuart Smith - guitar on "How Do You Stop"
  • Seal - vocals on "How Do You Stop"
  • Bill Dillon - synthesizer on "Yvette in English"
  • Charles Valentino - backing vocals on "Yvette in English"
  • Kris Kello - backing vocals on "Yvette in English"

    • Reception

    "A welcome return to the atmospherics and acoustic terrain she's best known for," wrote Q's Tom Doyle. "The majority of the tracks here recall the wafting soundscapes of 1976's Hejira, with gentle, controlled feedback, Pastorius-styled bass, Wayne Shorter's tumbling sax patterns and walls of acoustic guitars providing a dramatic backdrop for Mitchell's bold lyrical imagery."

    Songs

    1Sunny Sunday2:37
    2Sex Kills3:57
    3How Do You Stop4:09

    References

    Turbulent Indigo Wikipedia
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