Heartland
exists.
The third Final Fantasy record was self-released on For
Great Justice Records, January 12, 2010. The
album is the product of
nine months of work in four countries. Heartland is a fully
orchestral record, designed to exist simultaneously as an album, a
45-minute
piece of orchestral music and a set of songs for looped violin and
voice.
Owen Pallett explains:
"The
album is about the beginning, middle and end of a relationship. But
it's sung from the point of view of the object of my affection."
"Heartland was compositionally modeled upon the principles of
electronic music.
The principles of analog synthesis informing symphonic writing, like
an
inversion of a Tomita record. These songs, too, were designed to be as
dense with polyphony as the Final Fantasy live shows can become. While
writing it, I kept an image in my head of putting so many notes on the
page
that the paper turned black."
Work began in earnest in November 2008, when Pallett and Arcade Fire
drummer
Jeremy Gara flew to Reykjavik to work at The Greenhouse, Valgeir
Siggurdsson's
studio (Björk's Medulla, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's The Letting Go) with
engineer Mio Thórrison at the board. The orchestra was recorded
January 2009, in Prague, with the Czech Symphony. Other guests include
Matt Smith (Nifty), Reg Vermue (Gentleman Reg) and Nico Muhly. Rusty
Santo …
Heartland
exists.
The third Final Fantasy record was self-released on For
Great Justice Records, January 12, 2010. The
album is the product of
nine months of work in four countries. Heartland is a fully
orchestral record, designed to exist simultaneously as an album, a
45-minute
piece of orchestral music and a set of songs for looped violin and
voice.
Owen Pallett explains:
"The
album is about the beginning, middle and end of a relationship. But
it's sung from the point of view of the object of my affection."
"Heartland was compositionally modeled upon the principles of
electronic music.
The principles of analog synthesis informing symphonic writing, like
an
inversion of a Tomita record. These songs, too, were designed to be as
dense with polyphony as the Final Fantasy live shows can become. While
writing it, I kept an image in my head of putting so many notes on the
page
that the paper turned black."
Work began in earnest in November 2008, when Pallett and Arcade Fire
drummer
Jeremy Gara flew to Reykjavik to work at The Greenhouse, Valgeir
Siggurdsson's
studio (Björk's Medulla, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's The Letting Go) with
engineer Mio Thórrison at the board. The orchestra was recorded
January 2009, in Prague, with the Czech Symphony. Other guests include
Matt Smith (Nifty), Reg Vermue (Gentleman Reg) and Nico Muhly. Rusty
Santos, who produced Animal Collective's Sung Tongs and mixed Panda
Bear's Person
Pitch, was taken on as mixer. He and Owen worked together in Toronto
and
New York over the summer of 2009 putting the finishing touches on
Heartland.
Bartok String Quartets, Final Fantasy (the game), Maxim Vengerov, The Zombies, Xiu Xiu
