Heartland follow up?

[Mayweed Mas]

Hi all,

I recall reading somewhere here that a follow up to the Heartland concept would come after In Conflict. This was definitely before In Conflict was finished, so I'm wondering if anyone, or Owen, knows if this is still in the works.

Thanks

[Carlo]

Do you have a source?

[sorrowbynature]

I would guess it's from this post: shzine.proboards.com/post/66705/thread

[Mayweed Mas]

Jan 18, 2015 14:38:10 GMT -5 sorrowbynature said:

I would guess it's from this post: shzine.proboards.com/post/66705/thread

Yeah, that's the post I was thinking of. Wow, hard to believe it was that long ago

[Owen from Final Fantasy]

The "2012 that will not be a follow-up to Heartland" was the soundtrack to "The Wait", which I did finish in 2012 but haven't released yet. I originally was going to do an all-the-cues package, all 60 minutes of music, but have been more interested in doing a single vinyl 36-minute release of just the best stuff.

You can hear what it sounds like here: soundcloud.com/owen-pallett/blash-7c-fullgirl-leonv05

There are also two proper songs on it ("Contra O Capitalismo" and "The Phone Call"). I can't decide to release the soundtrack all-instrumental so people will, like, actively listen to it (it works great that way), or include the proper songs, which breaks up the mood but is more compleat.

The "follow-up to Heartland" was In Conflict, and it was scheduled to come out in 2013 but the first pass of mixes were rejected by me and I brought on some new people and it pushed the mastering date back to September 2013... too late for a 2013 release.

As for a return to Spectrum... I'm at a bit of a crossroads right now, lyrically. I've been writing a lot, a lot a lot, lyrics and songs separately. I've been feeling like my lyrics have always been very connected-to-my-brain, and have more recently been aware of the vast gulf between my writing and the writing of people who write lyrics connected-to-their-hearts, and/or connected-to-the-spirit world. Listening to a lot of 60s protest song, Buffy Sainte-Marie especially, has made me feel as if I am and have always been a bit of a smart-ass laughing up my sleeve, content to have a drink with Dan Bejar and Cass McCombs and pray that they might praise my work. I am not being hard on myself-- I think I'm pretty good!-- but I'm trying to reform the way I write lyrics a little bit, to make them more... effective. More specific. Less jokey and more truthful. (Not joke-free, though)

Insofar as that goes, these new songs are largely not set in a fictitious world. This isn't to say I might write them as such... but fundamentally I don't have any large-scale narrative ideas for a fiction. I am currently working under a vague Joycean idea that these songs are retracing a single day of my life. The day is expanded and fictionalized-- there is a song where the narrator gets fucked into space, for example.

But yeah, this won't be a Lewis record. I'm keeping my mind open to new Lewis songs. It's interesting, though, the largest motivator for those Lewis songs was this voyeuristic place that I was in 2008-2009. I was really into examining sensuality at arms' length instead of fully falling into it. When I think now about my mind's-eye image of Lewis, I don't feel as attracted to it. Not as interested in writing about fantasy men, more interested in writing about the real thing. But: always keeping my mind open

[chrismcgee]

Hi Owen, I just wanted to say that your show in St. John's last week was an absolute joy, and thanks for coming back here. I missed your last show here in 2010 because I had to play in a university concert band concert (blegh) and I drunkenly accosted you in a bar afterwards, to my eternal embarrassment, so here's a belated apology for that!

As for changing your lyrical style, that sounds super exciting and I can't wait to hear what you come up with. I think that a lot of brilliant work can come out of artists playing against their own strengths. That being said, I hope you know we all think that your strengths are very strong.

Cheers