I admire Fox for branching out, he seems adventurous. Which is also why it sounds cool that he's on your record obv, but it doesn't give away - for me - what his drumming sounds like :) His solo record from this year was pretty good (even though I admit to not having given it enough time).
LJ otm about the Callinan song. Also, the Sarahbeth Tomberlin EP fucking rocks. She's great. I don't mean to pry, but did she just out of the blue ask you: could you produce this? As it seems a really good match, but I don't know how these things come about.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 18 December 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link
Sarahbeth came to my shows, we became Facebook friends, and then one day she sent me an iPhone demo of "Tornado" and I was blown away. She kept sending more songs and they were awesome. I spoke to somebody else about recording her, but that person fell through, so I offered to do it myself. She came down and we recorded it in two-and-a-half days. She's amazing and she just signed a contract with a larger indie for three more records, and she wants me to keep working with her, which rules.
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 18 December 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
Awesome hearing about the making of Island, can't wait to hear tracks with or without crazy time-signature drumming
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 01:19 (six years ago) link
re "The Great Elsewhere": thanks for the explainer, Owen! It's still crazy to me that the whole thing works.
need to listen to the Sarah-Beth Tomberlin record - I keep forgetting to check it out.
― Roz, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 02:22 (six years ago) link
fascinating to hear about how The Great Elsewhere works, it's my absolute favourite. still very excited for Island
― ufo, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 02:42 (six years ago) link
I don't know a lot about time signatures, but is "The Riverbed" doing the same thing rhythmically? I once tried to cut off the start and end of that song so that it would loop (it is so awesome that I could listen to it all day - and I have), but I could never get the edit points right.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 19 December 2017 08:55 (six years ago) link
Threw on the A Swedish Love Story EP (which I'd forgotten I'd purchased on vinyl until I spotted it among my records earlier today) while doing some writing this afternoon and was reminded what a lovely little collection of songs it is. Understandably overshadowed by his other 2010 release, I still think that "A Man With No Ankles" might be my favourite OP song of this era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUeynkQPg8s
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Monday, 4 March 2019 03:37 (five years ago) link
Just want to chime in to say ‘me too!’ - I recently rediscovered this EP and have been enjoying it very much. Played that exact song on the radio a couple weeks ago!
― christopher.ivan, Monday, 4 March 2019 10:09 (five years ago) link
<3
New album will be out this year, and I’m going in to get the Final Fantasy albums remastered and repackaged with bonus stuff, the Totally Legal edition
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 March 2019 13:18 (five years ago) link
yayyyyyyyyy
― Roz, Monday, 4 March 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
Huzzah! <3
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 March 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
a welcome recess from hyperreality <3
― ninthyoung, Monday, 4 March 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
listened to in conflict this morning, one of my favorite parts of the album is the piano break between the verses of “i’m not afraid” that sounds like an rpg save point
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 4 March 2019 15:52 (five years ago) link
also realizing how grateful i am that this album exists
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 4 March 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
that sounds like an rpg save point
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jEYv97CMwc4/UjC2_hJSBBI/AAAAAAAAADk/dh2bvdLLWUY/s1600/save+point.png
― Evan, Monday, 4 March 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
Probably not unrelated to the fact that that moment is taken from the Ryuchi Sakamoto cookbook, as is lots of JRPG music
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 4 March 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
this is wonderful news, owen.
― sean gramophone, Monday, 4 March 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
cool, looking forward to new stuff
― ciderpress, Monday, 4 March 2019 17:42 (five years ago) link
this is good news.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Monday, 4 March 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
Very glad to hear this!!!
― christopher.ivan, Monday, 4 March 2019 18:39 (five years ago) link
same :)
― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 4 March 2019 18:42 (five years ago) link
Happy belated birthday to this achievement of a record--and to ten more years of being in my music rotation.
New live versions of some Heartland tracks have been periodically finding their way onto YouTube, and they're wonderful to listen to.
Cheers!
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Monday, 13 January 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
How in hell is this a decade old.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 15:20 (four years ago) link
It came out 10 years ago
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
proof?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
It's a decade old
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
owen-pallett-cooleth-story-brethren.jpg
"And from my ginger chest, therecame the sound of thunder"
Blasting this tonight in honor of its anniversary. An album so unique and with a truly transformative power I did not think I'd come across after my 30s any more. Shame the "life altering" cliche, but alter my life, it did. Up yours.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 14 January 2020 21:17 (four years ago) link
<3 :) thank you guys
― the bones tell me nothing (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 00:43 (four years ago) link
starting this thread prob in my top 5 moments on ilx.
My album of the decade no contest (and maybe song of the decade too for "The Great Elsewhere").
― Roz, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 02:12 (four years ago) link
i remember this being the first record i bought after deciding i'd never buy a CD again!
the synth of lewis takes off his shirt is still one of my favourite musical things ever
new OP album announced soon surely?
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 15:33 (four years ago) link
It’s a wonderful record, Owen.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
I need to listen to this record again asap. The problem with having a mental list of albums you love is that the list keeps getting longer and longer, so it's nice to be reminded of a record you love that you haven't listened to lately, for no particularly good reason!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
idk if this was really "public knowledge", but there was a re-issue of this album back in 2014 or so that included a number of bonus tracks. I know the "Deluxe Edition" is available on the iTunes store (and on CD format); I don't know about streaming services, because I don't use them. (I do use Tidal but I think it's bad luck to search for your own music on streaming services for some reason.)
The "Deluxe Edition" includes an instrumental b-side from the "Lewis Takes Action" single ("A Watery Day"), and then the entirety of the "Export EP". "Export" was a bit of a weird thing. I originally had this idea that I might record re-imagined versions of Heartland's songs that were stripped down and sung by other singers. I recorded beds for them, and started soliciting certain friends of mine to sing them. The wrangling process was more than I'd bargained for, and I got impatient. Fall 2010 was a frustrating bit of time for me. My guitarist (the brilliant Thom Gill) abruptly left, which was for the best (on a global level, he's a genius and should be doing his own thing). I had been in talks with new management, which made me optimistic for 'what would happen in the 2010s', and those talks abruptly fell through. There was some other stuff going on at the time, I can't remember what.
At the time, I'd only experienced one episode of adult depression (Spring 2007)-- funny to think about it now that depression/anxiety have become such a defining feature of my personality/existence. But in December 2010 I fell into a depression. I began cobbling together some unreleased stuff, including the instrumentals to this "Heartland reimagined" EP, and other fragments of things, to put together what would become the "Export EP". Prior to a set I played in Osaka, my last set of the year, I started sobbing desperately in front of my friend who worked at P-Vine. The year had been overwhelming and I was just exhausted. That night, in a daze, I uploaded "Export EP" to Soundcloud instead of bothering to consult anybody about a proper release for it. It was ignored. (The depression lifted a few days later and I had a really happy and healthy few years; 2011 especially was a really great one.)
Anyway you might be interested to try and track down the deluxe edition of Heartland for that EP. The best track on it is a really fucking good version of "The Great Elsewhere" from that Heartland Reimagined thing. Shara Nova (fka Shara Worden aka My Brightest Diamond) was the first and only person I solicited to record their vocals, and she... absolutely slayed it. The version has Shahzad Ismaily on drums and Thom Gill on guitar, I'm playing Rhodes, and three NYC string player luminaries (Rob Moose violin, Nadia Sirota viola, Clarice Jensen cello). Here it is if you're interested. The version began as a joke that Thom and I used to play at sound check but we decided it was actually amazing and recorded it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuQKPjaP08
― the bones tell me nothing (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 23:58 (four years ago) link
I saw the songs from this album live every night for the better part of a month and "lewis takes off his shirt" just fuckin killed me every time
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 16 January 2020 00:29 (four years ago) link
Holy shit, she did slay it. That was awesome.
― unashamed and trash (Unctious), Thursday, 16 January 2020 00:51 (four years ago) link
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
― majority whip, majority nae nae (m bison), Thursday, 16 January 2020 03:45 (four years ago) link
i have always loved loved loved that Export Elsewhere
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 16 January 2020 05:07 (four years ago) link
<3 that version of TGE (which I think I first heard on saidthegramophone!).
― Roz, Thursday, 16 January 2020 10:00 (four years ago) link
Yeah it's superb.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 16 January 2020 10:05 (four years ago) link
Love Shara's cover sooooo much
― winters (josh), Thursday, 16 January 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7WxTP3ger8
this performance <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 17 January 2020 06:36 (four years ago) link
(I do use Tidal but I think it's bad luck to search for your own music on streaming services for some reason.)
this is a mood
― k3vin k., Saturday, 18 January 2020 01:28 (four years ago) link
That performance in the rain is genuinely one of my favourite things on the internet.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 18 January 2020 02:30 (four years ago) link
really enjoyed the sound track to Recorder; it's a shame that's not readily available anywhere.... that i know of?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 13 March 2020 05:51 (four years ago) link
"Recorder"'s OST is not gonna be released. It works really well in the context of the movie, but not-so-much on its own. (The same is true for the score I did for the HBO doc "Suited"). I do have four soundtracks mastered and ready for release-- Anton Corbijn's "Life", M Blash's "The Wait", Shannon Walsh's "Illusions Of Control" and Matt Wolf's newer doc "Spaceship Earth"-- the last of which is 80 minutes of orchestral tootling that is a hybrid of Michael Nyman and Aaron Copland and is something I'm really proud of. Variety reviewed the film and said the score was "tremendous" :)
I've got the Final Fantasy-era material all re-mastered and it sounds insanely good, we're literally just waiting on my label to upload it to DSPs. The new album has a release date but I can't announce it yet-- I'm not anticipating that Covid is gonna push it back but I can't be sure sure.
― meaner stinks meat bake it cone (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 13 March 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
that's a lot of great news!!
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 13 March 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
Great news in the midst of so much bad news.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 13 March 2020 16:20 (four years ago) link
Whoa that’s fantastic fgti!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 13 March 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
Great to hear fgti!
― nxd, Friday, 13 March 2020 18:07 (four years ago) link
yay, owen - excited on all fronts and hope you are weathering this bad weather as well as could be hoped.
― sean gramophone, Friday, 13 March 2020 19:00 (four years ago) link