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''To All We Stretch the Open Arm'' is a collection of political songs by a variety of songwriters, performed by
Mirah Mirah (born Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn) is an American musician and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. After getting her start in the music scene of Olympia, Washington in the late 1990s, she released a number of well-received solo albums on K ...
and the Black Cat Orchestra. It met with a positive review in
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and mixed review from Pitchfork.


Production

The album was produced by Pat Maley and Ed Varga, and recorded in early 2003 in
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Mirah Mirah (born Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn) is an American musician and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. After getting her start in the music scene of Olympia, Washington in the late 1990s, she released a number of well-received solo albums on K ...
and the orchestra cover songs by artists such as
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Bertholt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a pl ...
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, and also cover several original songs by Mirah as well. It was released on Yoyo Records in 2004.


Reception

It met with a positive review in
Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...
and mixed review from Pitchfork. According to Allmusic, "While the album certainly addresses war and oppression with an appropriately somber tone (especially on Cohen's "Story of Isaac" and the sweetly earnest reading of Foster's "Hard Times"), ''To All We Stretch the Open Arm'' doesn't lose sight of how important passion and wit are to any good protest."


Track listing

#"Per I Morti iReggio Emilia" (
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) – 2:30 (Instrumental) #"Monument" (
Mirah Mirah (born Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn) is an American musician and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. After getting her start in the music scene of Olympia, Washington in the late 1990s, she released a number of well-received solo albums on K ...
) – 3:40 #"
Dear Landlord "Dear Landlord" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was recorded on November 29, 1967, at Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville, produced by Bob Johnston. The song was released on Dylan's album ''John Wesley Harding'' on Decembe ...
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) – 3:25 #"Story of Isaac" (
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) – 4:09 #"The Light"(
Mirah Mirah (born Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn) is an American musician and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. After getting her start in the music scene of Olympia, Washington in the late 1990s, she released a number of well-received solo albums on K ...
) – 4:10 #"
What Keeps Mankind Alive? "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama ''The Threepenny Opera'' () which premiered in Berlin in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. The title refers to the central line f ...
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) – 3:15 #"How Sweetly Friendship Binds" (
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/Paul Green) – 1:47 #"
Si Me Quieres Escribir "Si me quieres escribir" (English: "If You Want to Write to Me"), also known as "Ya sabes mi paradero" ("You Know Where I Am Posted") and "El frente de Gandesa" (The Gandesa Front), is one of the most famous songs of the Spanish Republican troop ...
" (Anonymous)– 2:48 #"Si Se Calla el Cantor" (
Horacio Guarany Eraclio Catalin Rodríguez Cereijo, better known as Horacio Guarany (May 15, 1925 – January 13, 2017), was one of the main Argentine folklore Folklore is shared by a particular group of people; it encompasses the traditions common to that ...
) – 3:16 #"Hard Times (Come Again No More)" (
Stephen Foster Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826January 13, 1864), known also as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour music, parlour and Minstrel show, minstrel music during the Romantic music, Romantic ...
) – 4:02 #"El Cant Dels Ocells" (Anonymous) – 2:58 #" Bella Ciao" (Anonymous) – 2:01


Personnel

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Mirah Mirah (born Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn) is an American musician and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. After getting her start in the music scene of Olympia, Washington in the late 1990s, she released a number of well-received solo albums on K ...
- primary artist *Black Cat Orchestra - instrumentals *Ed Varga - producer *Pat Maley - producer


References


External links


MirahMusic.com
{{Authority control Mirah albums 2004 albums