Joni Mitchell Hejira Numbered Limited Edition Hybrid Stereo SACD (Use code: FREESHIPPING at Checkout Two Orders or More UK Only) Pre-Order

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Joni Mitchell is the only artist who could've made Hejira. The legendary singer-songwriter said as much when discussing the album decades after its release. Yet that fact seemed obvious from the moment the gold-certified effort streeted in fall 1976. An adventurous travelogue, probing narrative, and offbeat homage to freedom, Hejiraremains an inimitable entry in the catalog of recorded music — a spare, gorgeous, meditative series of sonic vignettes comprised of floating harmonic pop, cool jazz, soft rock, and sensitive vocal elements that beckon feelings of motion, discovery, and self-examination.

Sourced from the original analog master tapes, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition hybrid SACD presents the record ranked the 133rd Greatest of All Time by Rolling Stone with definitive detail, richness, accuracy, and directness. Marking the first time the revered effort has received audiophile treatment on disc, it's one of six iconic 1970s Mitchell records Mobile Fidelity is reissuing on vinyl and SACD.

This collectible reissue reproduces in breathtaking fashion the tones, textures, and craftsmanship that help Hejira function as the equivalent of a liberating trip down an open road with nothing but blue sky, natural landscape, and fresh air in the immediate vicinity. Passages bloom, carry, decay as they do amid an acoustically optimized environment.

The reference-grade immediacy, airiness, and presence put in transparent perspective Mitchell's dense strings of words, stream-of-conscious-like phrasing, and unhurried albeit forward momentum. Likewise, the instrumental contributions of her A-list support musicians — a cast that includes L.A. Express members John Guerin, Max Bennett and Tom Scott, plus Neil Young, Victor Feldman, and Abe Most — emerges with stellar clarity and dimensionality.