Anaïs Mitchell has created a folk opera based on the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, Hadestown. Its perfect relevance to where our world is at right now is felt as much as understood. Anaïs asks impossible questions and leaves us not with answers but with freer minds. This project has been long in the works, and the execution is impeccable. With illustrations by Peter Nevins, art direction by Brian Grunert, score by Michael Chorney, production by Todd Sickafoose. With Anaïs Mitchell as Eurydice,... More>>>
"Not since Bob Dylan's early
years has a 23 year old songwriter had such power and meaning. Hymns for the
Exiled comes to us from both sides of a story, here and there, inside and out.
With literary aplomb, she gives us footnotes in the artwork, so that we can
do our reading and catch up with her. Political and poetic, personal and universal,
Anaïs Mitchell's work is my latest obsession. Look for her influence on my future
projects."
-Jonathan Byrd
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“I’ve got this lingering feeling/It’s like I’ve slipped between the fingers of the century/I know you know what I mean"
Over the course of 11 songs, listeners are transported to Bethlehem and the Virginia countryside; they bathe in New Mexico moonlight and hear the world whizzing by from the inside of a hobo’s train car. But for all of its worldliness, this is a homemade album. During the recording process, Anaïs lived above the studio, which was built into an old Vermont gristmill.... More>>>
