{"id":611,"date":"2022-02-13T16:20:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haimisaacs.com\/-\/?page_id=611"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:55:43","slug":"joni-mitchell-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/haimisaacs.com\/-\/joni-mitchell-in-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"Joni Mitchell in Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JONI MITCHELL IN JERUSALEM<\/h1><\/div>\r\n
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\"There are trendy tributes, and then there are declarations of love. Joni Mitchell in Jerusalem is one of those. A deferential, irreverent tribute to the brooding Canadian singer, Haim Isaacs' album revisits 11 tracks, urgently placing them on the worktable. Joni Mitchell in Jerusalem is one of those artisanal records, where one can sit back and listen to dreams. It's a soundtrack, ferociously intimate, and paradoxically universal. \"<\/p>\r\n

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\"Ever since he was a teenager, Haim Isaacs has been passionately in love with the music of Joni Mitchell. He even became possessed by it, to the point of becoming a sort of “singing madman”, setting off from his native New York to spread the good word mitchellian, head to the wind, on the roads of the Middle East. Original and successful, the album Joni Mitchell in Jerusalem makes you want to listen to this inspired shaman in a place with a more than appropriate name... the Hermitage.\"<\/p>\r\n

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\"In the long series of tributes, here's a truly original album that caught our attention, whether or not you're a connoisseur of Joni Mitchell’s work. This creative album never sounds like a rehash, and immerses us in an almost mystical sensation, that of attending an eminently spiritual concert. The covers are nuanced, playful and melancholy, depending on the lyrics, which are more or less introspective; sonic landscapes that are never arid take shape and unfold before our eyes, like Joni's paintings.
A warm, deep, gravelly voice that also has a beautiful ambitus, a perfect elocution where each of Joni's words resonates, sculpted as in the fascinating Little Green. If Haim Isaacs and his equally inspired musicians invite us to a highly recommendable experience, we may be tempted to go back to the source. A great moment guaranteed.\"<\/p>\r\n

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Les Dernières Nouvelles du Jazz<\/strong> \/ by Sophie Chambon

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\"For the past four years, Haim Isaacs has been celebrating the work of his youthful passion, Joni Mitchell. Surrounded by five musicians, he fine-tuned this astonishing album in the studio, creating an acoustic universe in which his exceptional voice blends with polyphonic harmonies, cello, accordion, percussion and piano to make ten songs by the folk icon his own.\"<\/p>\r\n

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CONCERT: COMING SOON<\/h2><\/div>\r\n
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HISTORY OF THE PROJECT<\/h2><\/div>\r\n                
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I was fifteen when I first heard Joni Mitchell<\/strong>’s music in my upstairs neighbor’s flat in Jerusalem. I’m sixty-four now, living in Paris, and the songs still elude me, they still slip through my fingers.\u2028<\/p>\r\n
Joni Mitchell in Jerusalem<\/strong> has been brewing for over 20 years. Then one morning it’s now... I must do it right now. Throughout France, massive strikes, followed by Covid. I cloistered myself in a studio for three months, experimenting with arrangements and soundscapes.\u2028<\/p>\r\n
I had a strong wish to share stories on how, in the 70’s, Joni’s music penetrated my heart in the Middle East.<\/strong> Speaking in the third person, high schooler H wanders through the streets of Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem, haunted by Joni. She follows him down to the Sinai desert where H, now a medic in the tank corps, sees her dancing in the dunes.\u2028Our jazz quartet stays true to Joni’s melodic lines and harmonies while creating fresh instrumental soundscapes. Three-voice harmonies abound.<\/p>\r\n
We are currently performing throughout France and hope to share the music with other European countries.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n
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