Passim Streams: Arc Iris
When:
Monday, Apr 06, 2020 7:00p -
8:00p
Monday, Apr 06, 2020 7:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Online event
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Music, Virtual & Streaming
Event website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/505295036810784/
💙Arc Iris Reimagines Joni Mitchell’s Blue 💙
Live stream! Presented by Club Passim
Stream at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgLMYFg7rYw
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Monday, April 6, 2020
Stream begins: 7pm EDT
Watch Arc Iris perform from home during this time of social distancing! Donations will be split between the band and Passim.
💙Arc Iris Reimagines Joni Mitchell’s Blue 💙
WBUR says: "The show is exactly what it sounds like, with an emphasis on "reimagines." Arc Iris takes great liberties with Mitchell’s 1971 masterpiece, unraveling those lovely, corkscrewing melodies ... But where Mitchell’s original recording is sparse, almost minimalist, with the singer’s voice mixed close and warm, Arc Iris’ take is sprawling and explosive... Folded between the songs are long sections of Mitchell’s own voice, clipped from old interviews with the singer. Even as the band roams further and further from the source material, Mitchell herself slides more sharply into focus, emerging as a self-possessed presence with a clear and unsparing sense of her own artistry."
To drive this point home, the band begins every show with a sample from an interview that Adams found on YouTube. “If you don’t/ Change/ they’ll get tired of you, you have to change,” Mitchell intones, her voice seeming to echo from a great distance. Tenorio-Miller taps the keys with meditative rhythmicity, and a mantra emerges: change, change, you have to change.
It is in this moment that Arc Iris makes a case for more than its own peculiar vision of “Blue.” It offers, instead, a new vision of Joni Mitchell: no longer the archetype of the confessional songwriter, but a trailblazer, an experimenter. Not the subject of change, but its author.
