{"id":4316,"date":"2005-09-29T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2005-09-29T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-29T13:55:00","slug":"the-mysterious-voice-of-anais-mitchell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4316","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Voice of Ana\u00efs Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-wrapper\"><a href=\"http:\/\/waterbug.com\/catalog\/product_info.php?products_id=328\" class=\"content-image-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hymns-150x150.jpg\" class=\"content-image-block\" alt=\"image\" style=\"max-width: 100%; height: auto; display: block; margin: 15px auto;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hymns-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hymns.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>All summer I listened to Ana\u00efs Mitchell\u2019s second record, <a href=\"http:\/\/anaismitchell.com\/hymns.html\">Hymns for the Exiled<\/a>, trying to figure out the mysterious quality in her singing and writing that is particularly noticeable in songs like <em>Cosmic American<\/em> and <em>Two Kids<\/em>. Her voice is not conventionally beautiful in the way people find Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston amazing vocal abilities pleasing.  You cannot listen an entire summer to the same record of these two popular chart toppers, but I can attest that you can listen to Ana\u00efs Mitchell. It is the somewhat rugged and vulnerable quality of her voice that keeps you interested in exploring the different regions charted by eleven songs on the record.  Most records only have one or two good songs. This one has ten.  The lyrics of <em>Orion<\/em> are so private that the song would have worked better if the melody had played a larger role in the listener&#8217;s experience and universalized the sense of loss touched upon in words about a complete stranger. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anaismitchell.com\/albums.html\">Listen to Samples from CD<\/a>          <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0002VGQOQ\/qid=1129482374\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/102-7549704-3157761?v=glance&amp;s=music&amp;n=507846\">Order CD at Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All summer I listened to Ana\u00efs Mitchell\u2019s second record, Hymns for the Exiled, trying to figure out the mysterious quality in her singing and writing <a href=\"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/?p=4316\" class=\"read-more-link\">[Read More]<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost:8000\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/hymns.jpg\" alt=\"image\" width=\"105\" height=\"105\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-the-rest"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peter.murmann.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}