Many Colored Kite Explained

Many Colored Kite
Type:	studio
Artist:	Mark Olson
Cover:	ManyColoredKite.jpg
Released:	July 27, 2010
Recorded:	2010
Genre:	Alternative country
Length:	42:43
Label:	Rykodisc
Producer:	Beau Raymond
Prev Title:	Ready for the Flood
Prev Year:	2008
Next Title:	Good-bye Lizelle
Next Year:	2014

Many Colored Kite is an album by American singer/songwriter Mark Olson, released in 2010.

Reception

Writing for Allmusic, music critic Mark Deming called the album; "a deeply introspective set of songs, with a keenly spiritual undertow running through these meditations on love, nature, and humanity. Not as cohesive as The Salvation Blues, Many Colored Kites is still a worthy and brave album that finds Mark Olson continuing to find new ways of sharing what life has taught him through his music."

Track listing

All songs by Mark Olson except as noted.

1. "Little Bird of Freedom" (Mark Olson, Ingunn Ringvold) – 4:11
2. "Morning Dove" – 4:34
3. "Many Colored Kite" – 3:53
4. "Bluebell Song" – 3:38
5. "Beehive" – 3:42
6. "No Time to Live Without Her" – 3:49
7. "Your Life Beside Us" – 4:58
8. "Scholastica" – 3:22
9. "Kingsnake" – 3:05
10. "Wind & Rain" (Olson, Ringvold) – 3:41
11. "More Hours" – 3:50

Personnel

• Mark Olson – vocals, banjo, bass, dulcimer, guitar, piano, Melodica
• Danny Frankel – drums, percussion
• Phil Baker – bass, double bass
• Beau Raymond – glockenspiel, percussion, background vocals
• Vashti Bunyan – harmony vocals, background vocals
• Jolie Holland – harmony vocals, background vocals
• Ingunn Ringvold – djembe, percussion, piano, harmony vocals, background vocals
• Shay Scott – Hammond B3 organ
• Neal Casal – bass, guitar, slide guitar
• Michele Gazich – viola, violin
• Ashia Grzesik – cello

Production notes

• Beau Raymond – producer, engineer, mixing
• Joe Gastwirt – mastering
• Jeremy Sherrer – engineer
• David Gorman – design
• Michele Gazich – string arrangements