Here Is What Is

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Here Is What Is
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Studio album by
Daniel Lanois
ReleasedDecember 15, 2007
RecordedToronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre Rock
Length64 Minutes
Label Red Floor Records
Producer Daniel Lanois
Daniel Lanois chronology
Belladonna
(2005)		Here Is What Is
(2007)		 Omni Series
(2008)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 71/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Filter 80% [3]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Now Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
PopMatters 8/10 [6]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Uncut 6/10 [8]

Here Is What Is is the fifth studio album by Canadian songwriter and record producer Daniel Lanois. It was first released on December 15, 2007, through Red Floor Records as a high-quality download, and later released on CD on March 18, 2008. [9]

Contents

The album is the result of the same project that led to the 2007 documentary "Here Is What Is" that premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival in September. The movie documents the aesthetics and creative process behind Lanois' approach to music making and recording. The album has been presented as a direct soundtrack to this film, and some of the tracks ("Beauty" and "Chest of Drawers") are conversations with Brian Eno. [10]

Track listing

All songs written by Daniel Lanois unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Chest of Drawers"
  2. "Where Will I Be"
  3. "Here Is What Is"
  4. "Not Fighting Anymore"
  5. "Beauty"
  6. "Blue Bus"
  7. "Lovechild"
  8. "Harry"
  9. "Bells"
  10. "This May Be The Last Time"
  11. "Smoke #6"
  12. "I Like That"
  13. "Duo Glide"
  14. "Bladesteel"
  15. "Moondog"
  16. "Sacred and Secular"
  17. "Joy"
  18. "Luna Samba"

"Where Will I Be" is a new version of a song which had been previously released on Emmylou Harris' album Wrecking Ball in 1995.

The tracks "Lovechild" and "Sacred and Secular" respectively incorporate the pedal steel guitar melody used on "Carla", from the Belladonna album, and the guitar melody used on "Transmitter", from the Shine album.

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Reviews for Here Is What Is by Daniel Lanois". Metacritic . Retrieved November 10, 2025.
  2. ↑ Jurek, Thom. "Here Is What Is - Daniel Lanois". AllMusic . Retrieved November 10, 2025.
  3. ↑ Lanois' impeccable production outshines his songwriting, but it's truly beautiful what this man can build. [Winter 2008, p.100]
  4. ↑ It's top quality stuff. [May 2008, p.106]
  5. ↑ Perlich, Tim (April 10, 2008). "DANIEL LANOIS". Now . Retrieved November 10, 2025.
  6. ↑ Henderson, Stuart (31 March 2008). "Daniel Lanois: Here Is What Is". PopMatters . Retrieved 10 November 2025.
  7. ↑ It's an undeniably chin-stroking effort, songs revolving with quiet, Dire Straits-ian grace around a pedal-steel guitar, while a variety of vocalists take his musical atmospherics and run with them. [May 2008, p.135]
  8. ↑ This collection, like all of his work, conjures a world unto itself, drawing from seemingly random sources to weave a work of mystic, spiritual power. [May 2008, p.102]
  9. ↑ Amazon.com: Here Is What Is: Daniel Lanois: Music
  10. ↑ Red Floor Records
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