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Anais Mitchell

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General Info

  • Genre: Acoustic / Alternative / Indie

    Location Montpelier, Vermont, US

    Profile Views: 475814

    Last Login: 2/24/2013

    Member Since 7/13/2005

    Website www.anaismitchell.com

    Record Label Righteous Babe Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    ...... .... From a 200-year-old farmhouse in rural Vermont, Anaïs Mitchell writes songs that are as intimate as conversations and as rich in detail as short stories. With three full length critically acclaimed albums under her belt, including ‘Hadestown’ which received sensational reviews from all corners such as ..The Guardian, Times, Rolling Stone .. and .. NME .., Mitchell has played hundreds of shows across the world, including performances and tours with ..Emmylou Harris, Bon Iver, Richard Thompson, Ani diFranco, the Low Anthem, Shawn Colvin.. and ..Josh Ritter.. among others. Mitchell is that rare musician who is equally comfortable wielding an acoustic guitar alone onstage, or scripting a vast operatic journey into the underworld. .... In 2004, Mitchell made her debut record, ‘Hymns for the Exiled’, produced by long-standing collaborator Michael Chorney. A copy of the record found its way to Ani DiFranco, who offered to release her next album, The Brightness, and later a collaboration with Rachel Ries, ‘The Country EP’. The following few years saw Mitchell continuing to play shows around the world, while simultaneously working on ‘Hadestown’, her most ambitious project to date - an epic “folk opera” retelling of the Orpheus myth. The piece began as a live performance created in collaboration once more with Michael Chorney who arranged and orchestrated the songs, and fellow Vermont director Ben t. Matchstick. In their neck of the woods—TV-less by choice, far from big cities, in a land of radical politics and culture—making your own entertainment, and getting your friends and neighbors to help you flesh it out, is the only way to go. After fine-tuning the show, the trio gathered a cast of two dozen, commandeered a silver-spraypainted schoolbus, and hit the road (through several blizzards) for a couple of ragtag DIY tours of New England. .... The next logical step? Hadestown, the album. Mitchell’s songs and Chorney’s orchestral arrangements were re-imagined by producer Todd Sickafoose and performed by a dream-team lineup including Ani DiFranco, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Greg Brown, and Mitchell herself, among others. The resulting album caught the attention of critics and music fans across the world, receiving five star reviews and raves from some of the most esteemed publications around. ..

  • Members

    Anais Mitchell (voice & guitar) ~and sometimes~ Michael Chorney (guitar, producer, arranger/orchestrator) The Hadestown Orchestra/Michael Chorney Sextet Jefferson Hamer (voice & guitar) Austin Nevins (guitar) Adam Roszkiewicz (guitar/mandolin) & Alisa Rose (fiddle) Rachel Ries (voice & guitar, comrade)

  • Influences

    the weird political and pagan folksongs of my upbringing, my dad's record collection, esp. the early sixties and the 1980s. the expatriate writers of a few generations including nin & miller, hemingway etc., lawrence durrell, james joyce and those guys, and the beats. guthrie, dylan, cohen, cash, waits. joni, ani, dar, tori, cyndi, rickie lee, gillian. talking heads, dire straits, peter gabriel, velvet underground. bertold brecht & kurt weill. randy newman. all my comrades. ..Please join Anaïs Mitchell on .. ........ ..............

  • Sounds Like

    ..THE SUNDAY TIMES.... "Multi-layered, sensationally good and endlessly absorbing...an extraordinary album" ..*****.. CD of the Week .... ..THE GUARDIAN.... "Mitchell has created something joyful and witty that yields more with every listen" ..*****...... ..NME.... "Hadestown is nothing short of incredible, whether you extract individual tracks like 'Wedding Song' or listen to the endearing tale as an artfully rollicking whole. Mitchell has always been good, but Hadestown is her Odyssey" ..9/10...... ..UNCUT.... "Hadestown" has made Mitchell an Americana princess" ..*****...... ..PASTE.... "Mitchell is both adorable and badass! But her songs are these very serious - through, crucially, not self-serious - masterpieces, haunting little poems set to gutsy finger-picked guitar with a sweet smile....just fantastic" .... ..AMERICAN SONGWRITER.... "Somewhere between The Who's 'Tommy' and Sufjan Stevens' entire body of work lies Anais Mitchell's new folk opera, Hadestown (Righteous Babe). Whatever its inspiration, Hadestown is the first effort to emerge from this morass of good intention that truly holds up on both the musical and narrative level' .... ..ACOUSTIC GUITAR.... "Fearlessly emotive...like Dylan, Cohen and Welch, Mitchell weaves her stories into an effortlessly beautiful and cohesive tapestry with the skill of an artisan's carpenter, showing no seams" ...... TOUR VIDEOS .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...."1984" the day after the inauguration, London, Winter 09.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...."Lovin's for Fools" with Bon Iver, Paris, Fall 08.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...."Waitin for my Man" with Hamell on Trial (& Ani Difranco on vibraphone), Amsterdam, Fall 2008.... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...."Namesake" with Michael Chorney, Cambridge, Fall 2007)...... .. .. .. .. .. ...... (see more tour videos at ..anaismitchell.com..) ....

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