Who is anais mitchell

It also felt natural, after she had plenty of original songs under her belt, to start getting them out to the world, so in she took an early stab at recording a self-released album now out of print , and two years later she made the disc she considers her true debut: Hymns for the Exiled , released on the Chicago-based indie Waterbug Records.

Add to Cart. Has add to cart susscess! I love solo songwriting and performing, I definitely have done a lot of that.

People who are really in touch with what moves them. Certainly being a straight up communicator is important. And that ability to get feedback and an inspiration loop going, that feels really important too. How do you know when to listen to your intuition vs. I came to the project as a songwriter and a poet. So a lot of the struggle has been between poetry and drama. That has been a real touchstone for both of us. We worked on the show six years together before it went to Broadway.

Hadestown is a very metaphorical piece. We wanted to be rooted in the specific but to also speak in this larger than life way. There are a lot of songs and parts of the show where hopefully things are operating at multiple levels.

It wants to be bigger, more archetypal than anything you could pin down with a literal event. We wanted to lean into the kind of specificity that allows people to hold onto story, and certain things people need to know. Like, they need to know you have to have a ticket to get on the train to Hadestown. Specific things. When the show began in Vermont, it was a much more abstract version of the show.

And even when I started with Rachel, we were asking a lot of the audience like to just fill in the blanks yourself. Some people are down for that and others are not.

How can elevated language—poetry, parables, myths—help us see ourselves? Very early on, I started thinking about the initial concept that Hadestown is a place that is not hell per se, but there are lifeless people. Those themes have kept. With the poverty stuff, in when there was that recession in the U. They were feeling the hardship. And the climate crisis stuff started to deepen which felt very connected to the ancient mythology with Hades as this king of industry and Persephone queen of nature, in Hadestown with a troubled marriage.

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Mitchell 's fourth full-length, Hadestown , was based on her American folk opera version of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, which she had staged in New England.

Chorney did the orchestrations. As Mitchell endeavored to develop her musical for a bigger stage, she continued to write and record, releasing the sociopolitically charged Young Man in America via Wilderland Records in A set of folk ballads originally by Francis James Child and recorded with Jefferson Hamer , Child Ballads followed on the same label in and hit number 20 on the folk chart. A year later, Mitchell issued her seventh studio album, xoa, a mix of original songs and re-recorded tracks from her catalog.

After premiering off-Broadway in a run that produced the cast recording Hadestown: The Myth. The Musical. Containing the full score, the over-two-hour Broadway cast recording saw release by Sing It Again Records in July It became a Billboard Top Five independent album.