To All We Stretch the Open Arm

Studio album by

Mirah

Released

2004

Recorded

Seattle, Washington, January 2003

Genre

Indie rock

Length

38:09

Label

Yoyo Records

Producer

Pat Maley, Ed Varga

Mirah chronology

Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project
(2003)

To All We Stretch the Open Arm
(2004)

C'mon Miracle
(2004)

To All We Stretch the Open Arm is a collection of political songs by a variety of songwriters, performed by Mirah and the Black Cat Orchestra. It met with a positive review in Allmusic and mixed review from Pitchfork.

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Production

The album was produced by Pat Maley and Ed Varga, and recorded in early 2003 in Seattle, Washington. Mirah and the orchestra cover songs by artists such as Fausto Amodei, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Kurt Weill, Bertholt Brecht, Horacio Guarany, and Stephen Foster, and also cover several original songs by Mirah as well. It was released on Yoyo Records in 2004.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Pitchfork	5.2/10^[2]

It met with a positive review in Allmusic^[1] and mixed review from Pitchfork.^[2] 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."^[1]

Track listing

"Per I Morti [di] Reggio Emilia" (Fausto Amodei) – 2:30 (Instrumental)
"Monument" (Mirah) – 3:40
"Dear Landlord" (Bob Dylan) – 3:25
"Story of Isaac" (Leonard Cohen) – 4:09
"The Light"(Mirah) – 4:10
"What Keeps Mankind Alive?"(Kurt Weill/Bertholt Brecht) – 3:15
"How Sweetly Friendship Binds" (Kurt Weill/Paul Green) – 1:47
"Si Me Quieres Escribir" (Anonymous)– 2:48
"Si Se Calla el Cantor" (Horacio Guarany) – 3:16
"Hard Times (Come Again No More)" (Stephen Foster) – 4:02
"El Cant Dels Ocells" (Anonymous) – 2:58
"Bella Ciao" (Anonymous) – 2:01

Personnel

Mirah - primary artist
Black Cat Orchestra - instrumentals
Ed Varga - producer
Pat Maley - producer

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Phares, Heather. "To All We Stretch the Open Arm". Allmusic. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
^ ^a ^b Ubl, Sam (11 April 2004). "Mirah / Black Cat Orchestra: To All We Stretch the Open Arm". Pitchfork. Retrieved 19 October 2012.

External links

MirahMusic.com

v t e Mirah
Solo albums	Storageland EP (1997) You Think It's Like This but Really It's Like This (2000) Small Sale EP (2001) Advisory Committee (2002) Cold Cold Water EP (2002) C'mon Miracle (2004) (a)spera (2009) Changing Light (2014)
Collaborations	Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project (2003) To All We Stretch the Open Arm (2004) Share This Place: Stories and Observations (2007) Thao + Mirah (2011)
Collections	Joyride: Remixes (2006) The Old Days Feeling (2008)

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