Post by Owen from Final Fantasy on Oct 18, 2011 9:50:41 GMT -5
First, R.E.M.'s new and final single "We all go back to where we belong" comes out today. Their producer, Jacknife Lee, got me to do an orchestral arrangement on it (and the other new song, "Hallelujah"). I haven't heard anything other than a Youtube mix of it, and Youtube videos don't have any frequencies higher than 3k kHz, so it's nigh impossible to hear anything aside from a few toots on a flugelhorn. But it is a beautiful song regardless of anything I could've done and I hope you all enjoy it and bid that band well as they cross into the underworld.
Isn't it interesting, this contrast: the existence of an afterworld is debatable, when speaking of mortal souls, and yet, when speaking of artistic careers, the afterworld is so tangible? I'm thinking of "development hell" with movies, or the "pantheon" or "canon" of albums...
Anyway, even though Stipe and Buck and Berry and Mills and you and I, we'll all rot in the ground, it's nice to know that R.E.M. will always be looking down on us from Band Heaven. You get my meaning? Yay, R.E.M.
The second thing I'd like to mention, speaking of "development hell". I am working hard, I am working fast, but I'd like you all to be patient with me re: new recordings. The only thing I can divulge to you about LP4 is that there is no plan, no concept, no set instrumentation, no lyrical theme; it is only a record about a notion, and that is an inverted approach to masculinity, man-as-drone, man-as-collateral. It was inspired by sniggering at Walter White when he says to Jesse Pinkman, "Who wears the pants around here?" It is developing slowly and widely. I do hope to keep people updated with every step, but we're very much still buying the seeds, and are a season away from planting, and a few more from harvesting, and still more from sitting down to eat.
Like/love, X
Isn't it interesting, this contrast: the existence of an afterworld is debatable, when speaking of mortal souls, and yet, when speaking of artistic careers, the afterworld is so tangible? I'm thinking of "development hell" with movies, or the "pantheon" or "canon" of albums...
Anyway, even though Stipe and Buck and Berry and Mills and you and I, we'll all rot in the ground, it's nice to know that R.E.M. will always be looking down on us from Band Heaven. You get my meaning? Yay, R.E.M.
The second thing I'd like to mention, speaking of "development hell". I am working hard, I am working fast, but I'd like you all to be patient with me re: new recordings. The only thing I can divulge to you about LP4 is that there is no plan, no concept, no set instrumentation, no lyrical theme; it is only a record about a notion, and that is an inverted approach to masculinity, man-as-drone, man-as-collateral. It was inspired by sniggering at Walter White when he says to Jesse Pinkman, "Who wears the pants around here?" It is developing slowly and widely. I do hope to keep people updated with every step, but we're very much still buying the seeds, and are a season away from planting, and a few more from harvesting, and still more from sitting down to eat.
Like/love, X
