{{Infobox album | name = Here Is What Is | type = Studio album | artist = [[Daniel Lanois]] | cover = Hereiswhatis.jpg | alt = | released = December 15, 2007 | recorded = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Rock music|Rock]] | length = 64 Minutes | label = Red Floor Records | producer = [[Daniel Lanois]] | prev_title = [[Belladonna (album)|Belladonna]] | prev_year = 2005 | next_title = [[Omni Series]] | next_year = 2008 }} {{Album ratings | MC = 71/100<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/here-is-what-is/daniel-lanois|title=Reviews for Here Is What Is by Daniel Lanois|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=November 10, 2025}}</ref> | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/here-is-what-is-mw0000753153|title=Here Is What Is - Daniel Lanois|website=[[AllMusic]]|last=Jurek|first=Thom|access-date=November 10, 2025}}</ref> | rev2 = ''[[Filter (magazine)|Filter]]'' | rev2score = 80%<ref>Lanois' impeccable production outshines his songwriting, but it's truly beautiful what this man can build. [Winter 2008, p.100]</ref> | rev3 = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' | rev3score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>It's top quality stuff. [May 2008, p.106]</ref> | rev4 = ''[[Now (newspaper)|Now]]'' | rev4score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/discs.cfm?content=162388|title=DANIEL LANOIS|website=[[Now (newspaper)|Now]]|last=Perlich|first=Tim|date=April 10, 2008|access-date=November 10, 2025|archive-date=April 10, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080410065754/http://www.nowtoronto.com/music/discs.cfm?content=162388|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> | rev5 = ''[[PopMatters]]'' | rev5score = 8/10<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/daniel-lanois-here-is-what-is-2496164850.html|title=Daniel Lanois: Here Is What Is|website=[[PopMatters]]|last=Henderson|first=Stuart|date=31 March 2008|access-date=10 November 2025}}</ref> | rev6 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' | rev6score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref>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]</ref> | rev7 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' | rev7score = 6/10<ref>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]</ref> }} '''''Here Is What Is''''' is the fifth studio album by [[Canadians|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.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Here-What-Daniel-Lanois/dp/B00133MKRE Amazon.com: Here Is What Is: Daniel Lanois: Music<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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]].<ref>[http://www.redfloorrecords.com Red Floor Records<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==Track listing== All songs written by Daniel Lanois unless otherwise noted.
# "Chest of Drawers" # "Where Will I Be" # "Here Is What Is" # "Not Fighting Anymore" # "Beauty" # "Blue Bus" # "Lovechild" # "Harry" # "Bells" # "This May Be The Last Time" # "Smoke #6" # "I Like That" # "Duo Glide" # "Bladesteel" # "Moondog" # "Sacred and Secular" # "Joy" # "Luna Samba"
"Where Will I Be" is a new version of a song which had been previously released on Emmylou Harris' album ''[[Wrecking Ball (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)|Belladonna]]'' album, and the guitar melody used on "Transmitter", from the ''[[Shine (Daniel Lanois album)|Shine]]'' album.
==Personnel== *Daniel Lanois – [[guitar]], [[bass guitar|bass]], [[Singing|vocals]] *[[Brian Blade]] – [[Drum kit|drums]] *[[Garth Hudson]] – [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]] *Jim Wilson *[[Daryl Johnson (musician)|Daryl Johnson]] *Tony Mangurian *[[Tony Garnier (musician)|Tony Garnier]] *Marcus Blake *[[Steven Nistor]] – drums *Ada Small *Shawn Stroope *Willie Green *[[Aaron Embry]] *[[Brady Blade]]
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Daniel Lanois|state=autocollapse}} {{Authority control}}
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