JONI MITCHELL Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet 8x LP VINYL BOX SET MINT

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	$		106

JONI MITCHELL - LOVE HAS MANY FACES.
A Ballet, A Quartet Waiting to be Danced.

8LP VINYL BOX SET IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.

PLEASE NOTE that there are a few very light marks on the outer cover, and the inner binding is slightly split. All records are mint in unplayed condition.

DESCRIPTION:

Limited Deluxe 8LP 180gm Vinyl Box Set! Joni Mitchell's Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting To Be Danced will be available on vinyl for the first time!

Limited-Edition Vinyl Boxed Set Features Mitchell-Curated Collection of 53 Songs Recorded Throughout Her Influential Career that Evoke Her Vision of Love! Beloved singer-songwriter-painter-poet Joni Mitchell will turn 75 this year on November 7. Rhino will start the birthday celebration a few days early by releasing Mitchell's critically-acclaimed 2014 boxed set Love Has Many Faces on vinyl for the first time as a limited-edition, eight-LP 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, Mitchell 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 wrote in the liner notes to the set. 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 * 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," she explains.

Limited to 5,000 individually numbered copies, the set is presented in a hard-bound deluxe folio package. It includes 53 songs on eight 180gm LPs. Etchings of Mitchell's artwork are featured on four individual album sides, each one signifying the end of an act in the ballet.

It truly is an artist-curated collection. Mitchell selected the material from 40 years of recording. She designed the package, which includes a book containing 53 lyrical poems, six 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." Longtime listeners should find the music familiar but fresh. Newcomers 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.

Features: A COLLECTION ABOUT LOVE (AND THE LACK OF IT) Curated by Joni Mitchell 52 Poems on Eight 180-Gram LPs With Fours Sides Featuring Etchings Plus An Autobiographical Novelette by Joni Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 5,000 The cover art, audio tracks and sequence, and novelette are identical to what was included in the 4-CD set we released Nov 24, 2014.

Track Listings

Disc: 1

In France They Kiss on Main Street (2014 Remaster)Ray's Dad's Cadillac (2014 Remastered Version)You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio (2014 Remaster)Harlem in Havana (2014 Remaster)Car on a Hill (2014 Remaster)

Disc: 2

Dancin' Clown (2014 Remastered Version)River (2014 Remaster)Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody (2014 Remastered Version)Harry's House / Centerpiece (2014 Remaster)

Disc: 3

Shades of Scarlett Conquering (2014 Remaster)Number One (2014 Remastered Version)The Windfall (Everything For Nothing) [2014 Remastered Version]Come In From The Cold (2014 Remastered Version)

Disc: 4

Court and Spark (2014 Remaster)Not to Blame (2014 Remaster)Nothing Can Be Done (2014 Remastered Version)Comes Love (2014 Remaster)Trouble Child (2014 Remaster)

Disc: 5

No Apologies (2014 Remaster)Moon At The Window (2014 Remastered Version)Blue (2014 Remaster)Tax Free (2014 Remastered Version)The Wolf That Lives in Lindsey (2014 Remaster)

Disc: 6

Hana (2014 Remastered Version)Hejira (2014 Remaster)Stay in Touch (2014 Remaster)Night Ride Home (2014 Remastered Version)

Disc: 7

You're My Thrill (2014 Remaster)The Crazy Cries of Love (2014 Remaster)Love Puts on a New Face (2014 Remaster)Borderline (2014 Remaster)A Strange Boy (2014 Remaster)

Disc: 8

You Dream Flat Tires (2014 Remaster)Love (2014 Remaster)All I Want (2014 Remaster)Be Cool (2014 Remaster)

Disc: 9

Yvette in English (2014 Remaster)Just Like This Train (2014 Remaster)Carey (2014 Remaster)The Only Joy In Town (2014 Remastered Version)

Disc: 10

Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (2014 Remaster)Two Grey Rooms (2014 Remastered Version)God Must Be a Boogie Man (2014 Remaster)Down to You (2014 Remaster)A Case of You (2014 Remaster)

Disc: 11

The Last Time I Saw Richard (2014 Remaster)Raised on Robbery (2014 Remaster)Sweet Sucker Dance (2014 Remaster)Lakota (2014 Remastered Version)

Disc: 12

Cool Water (2014 Remastered Version)Amelia (2014 Remaster)Both Sides Now (2014 Remaster)My Best to You (2014 Remaster)