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...How do you feel right now? Owen Pallett: Pretty good. Pretty beaten down by the heat. It's your second time on the short list, which is pretty amazing, and you're challenging some repeat short-listers as well. If you win what will you do with the money? Owen...
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CHARTattack
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...lately; I especially like the A.V. Club's web series "Undercover" and Levi's Levi's Pioneer Sessions. Yesterday I watched Owen Pallett perform a watered-down version of Guided by Voices's "Game of Pricks" on "Undercover", which features bands covering songs...
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Orange County Weekly
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/hot-tracks/cool-covers-shins-dirty-projec/
Canadian composer Owen Pallett has written string arrangements for KCRW favorites like Arcade Fire and Grizzly Bear, but soars even higher in his stunning solo work. He brings his glorious arrangements and melodies to Morning Becomes Eclectic.
Owen Pallett live at Koko, London 26th March 2010, playing cover of the Mariah Carey song Fantasy
The artist formerly known as 'Final Fantasy' has released a new album this time under his own name called 'Heartland'.
The artist formerly known as 'Final Fantasy' has released a new album this time under his own name called 'Heartland'.
A review of Owen Pallett's Heartland album.
'Lewis Takes Off His Shirt' from Owen Pallett's new album 'Heartland'. Out now on Domino Records. www.dominorecordco.us Director/editor: M Blash CAST: Alison Pill Owen Pallett Tom Arsenault Morgan Ritter Daniel Peterson Zoe Roller M Blash camera: M Blash, Bobby Bukowski props: Jacqueline Castell
Owen Pallett plays Lewis Takes His Shirt Off live at Union Chapel. Pretty intense song to play but it comes out so relaxing and beautiful :)
AUX TV interviews Owen Pallett (formerly Final Fantasy) backstage before his Heartland release show in Toronto.
Until recently - under the name "Final Fantasy"- Owen Pallett created a lush symphonic sound by layering his solo violin many times over with looping pedals. Pallet stopped by Studio 360 to perform songs from his new album, "Heartland." Listen to the full interview here: www.studio360.org Thanks to WNYC's Amy Pearl for filming and editing this video.
...i can't make out many of the lyrics to this except the refrain, "honour? the dead"...ok, so apparently this track has an official title/confirmed by this listing of it in an orchestra show in Halifax, and Owen's announcing of it there. www.cbc.ca
Thomas Gill is singing back-up off camera.
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MUSIC / "It may as well be a pornographic spread," he says of Heartland, to be released on Jan 12
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Canada saw its decade-long musical renaissance carry on through 2009, as acts ranging from indie songsmiths Rural Alberta Advantage to booty-shakers Thunderheist to Lil Wayne-approved rapper Drake grabbed themselves a piece of the spotlight. 2010 looks
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Spinner.com
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Since 2004, Arcade Fire violinist Owen Pallett has performed solo shows under the name “Final Fantasy.” Now, one the eve of his newest album, Heartland, Pallet has decided to retire his videogame-inspired band name.
“I named the band Final Fantasy, as
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In this edition: Owen Pallett drops Final Fantasy moniker in advance of his first Japanese release, Sony responds to Diamond Rings in light of last week's controversy, Peter Project plans to sell new EP as a bar of soap, and forthcoming release
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...Final Fantasy has revealed to the world that as of right this very second, he shall forever be known by his actual name of Owen Pallett. Explaining the news in statement, Pallett wrote: I began playing solo violin shows in 2004. Although it was essentially...
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Everyone's favourite Japanese RPG-named solo music-man Final Fantasy has revealed to the world that as of right this very second, he shall forever be known by his actual name of Owen Pallett.
Explaining the news in statement, Pallett wrote:
I began
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Strangeglue
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Perhaps, in your internet travels for Final Fantasy the video game related content or violin-driven indie music, you've come across Final Fantasy the band. If you have, and become a fan of the artist, call them Final Fantasy no more.
The band—which is
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Kotaku
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There’s an old southern saying: “Dance with the one what brung ya.” Owen Pallett, the bard of string and song who went by the stage name Final Fantasy, lives by no such code. Yes, the Japanese RPG nerds he brought with him to the dance are going to be
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Pate Magazine
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...and onto their Dragon Quest t-shirts. Final Fantasy is Final Fantasy no more; he has gone back to name his mother gave him, Owen Pallett. Fortunately for the ranks of JRPG faithful, Pallett’s upcoming LP Heartland is still coming out on Jan. 10, and it will...
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Perhaps in anticipation of a lawsuit that has seemed inevitable for years, Final Fantasy's Owen Pallett has decided to stop using the name for his band. The violinist/composer--who has also contributed to tons of other Canadian bands, most notably
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The A.V. Club
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...releasing two solo records under the name Final Fantasy, Canadian orchestral pop whiz Owen Pallett has decided to drop his video game-inspired moniker from here on out. The reason? Litigation, it seems. In a statement released by Pallett, he says "the laws...
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Spinner.com
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After releasing two solo records under the name Final Fantasy, Canadian orchestral pop whiz Owen Pallett has decided to drop his video game-inspired moniker from here on out. The reason? Litigation, it seems.
In a statement released by Pallett, he
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Spinner.com
http://www.spinner.com/2009/12/18/owen-pallett-drops-final-fantasy-name/
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...Pallett, who for so many years went by the pseudonym Final Fantasy, will retire that moniker with immediate effect, it was revealed today. He will henceforth be known as...Owen Pallett...in every capacity, possibly with the exception of his mother. He issued...
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Owen Pallett has announced he will no longer record as Final Fantasy following copyright issues with a computer games manufacturer.
The string arranger, who has worked with Arcade Fire and The Last Shadow Puppets, said he was retiring the name and
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NME
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Owen Pallett has a new album due out on Domino on Jan. 12 and he is ditching the Final Fantasy name for its release. The record is titled Heartland, and is being advertised just about everywhere as a Final Fantasy album, but will now only bear
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Boiling 10 years down to 10 albums is a near impossible task. Even the list-maker can get bummed about the great records that got left off. But while the order can be questioned and favourites might not make the cut, what's less debatable is that these
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Spinner.com
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In anticipation of his upcoming third album, Heartland, out January 12th, 2010 off of Domino Records, Owen Pallett, better known as Canadian experimental artist Final Fantasy, will be continuing his winter tour alongside the Mountain Goats. Tonight,
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Filter Magazine
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To celebrate the January 12th release of Heartland, Final Fantasy will be playing several shows, including dates in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York City. The third Final Fantasy full-length and the first for Domino Records, Heartland is the
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Brooklyn Vegan
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by Staff | 12.02.2009
In anticipation of his upcoming third album, Heartland, out January 12th, 2010 off of Domino Records, Owen Pallett, better known as Canadian experimental artist Final Fantasy, will be continuing his winter tour alongside the
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Filter Magazine
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It's been awhile since the Neon Bible came to end; nearly two years. About time for Arcade Fire to start making noise again, right? Right.
According to U.K. mag Uncut, the band's British label has announced that a new Arcade Fire album will appear in 20
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Heartland
After such a long wait, it's nice to be on the home stretch before Owen Pallett finally releases his new Final Fantasy record, Heartland. And it seems Pallett is just as excited as we are, as he's announced a headlining tour to kick
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Owen Pallett’s first album since He Poos Clouds in 2006 is a concept album about a farmer named Lewis, who, if you’ll notice the track list, takes off his shirt at some point. Pallett has been jumping around the world to record Heartland, spending time
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Owen Pallett is adaptable. If he's performing solo outdoors under cloud cover, he'll seemingly conjure rainstorms while debuting a righteous new tune from his forthcoming Domino debut Heartland; while at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, he'll seamlessly
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Attention violin students everywhere: Hang in there, kids. It is possible to parlay those Vivaldi exercises into a musical career with a fan base of near-hysterical young women. Just ask the dreamy Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy, whose austere synth and
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LAist
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(Showbox at the Market) See Stranger Each song on the new Mountain Goats album, The Life of the World to Come, is named after a Bible verse. "Genesis 3:23" ("So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden..."), for instance, is a song about
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Following the announcement of new album Heartland (January 18th 2010), Final Fantasy has now been confirmed to headline the Union Chapel in London on January 25th.
The past few years have seen Owen Pallett touring as Final Fantasy, his one-man band.
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CD Times
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THE BOX may not be a return to that kind of form for Kelly, but it's definitely an intriguing aesthetic push-pull in its own right. It's a little like watching a 70s-era Disney movie directed by Alan J. Pakula. Just when you think the film is setting
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John Darnielle, like, say, Billy Childish or Will Oldham, never throws away an idea, even if it takes him into uncomfortable spiritual waters. That kind of unrestrained poetic daring has served all three well.
The Mountain Goats is Darnielle’s mostly
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long awaited third record was finally announced last month, to shouts of joy and murmurs of amused interest. It’s something of a concept album, based on a world where the sole deity is the violinist, singer and loop-pedal genius himself, and it does,
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Analogue
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It’s been a few months since we heard anything from Arts & Crafts’ Gentleman Reg, but it turns out he’s been pretty busy. Not only has he recorded a brand new six-song EP, but he’s also about to launch a lengthy headlining tour that will take
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The union of popular music with a symphony orchestra is neither new nor particularly shocking. Bands have been exploiting this juxtaposition for years with results that usually manage to both intrigue and alienate -- film director and San Francisco
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Spinner.com
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The Life of the World To Come marks a number of changes. Gone are both longtime producer John Vanderslice and cellist Erik Friedlander; in their place, Darnielle enlists Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) for string arrangements and works with several
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Final Fantasy, aka composer/musician Owen Pallett, who has worked with Arcade Fire and The Last Shadow Puppets, is set to return with a new album in January.
The third Final Fantasy album, which will be instrumental and entitled 'Heartland', will be
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NME
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Final Fantasy Sets Heartland Release Date
Final Fantasy’s Owen Pallett is officially on the up-and-up. Not only does the orchestrally minded Canadian not have H1N1, but he now has his Heartland LP all in order and ready for release.
Via his
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Exclaim.ca
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Owen Pallett AKA Final Fantasy has a new album on the way and just recently, he decided to reveal its track-listing, release date, artwork and apparently, its insane conceptual storyline.
Due on January 12th of next year via his new label home of
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Strangeglue
http://strangeglue.com/news/final-fantasy-confirms-heartland-details
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Can you approach a symphony orchestra as though it’s an analog synth? That’s a question composers have asked since the first time they heard electronic sounds. It’s impossible to hear the 20th-century technology alongside the 19th-century technology
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After news broke Friday (September 25) that Final Fantasy may have H1N1, Owen Pallett now says that he only has a case of the regular seasonal flu. Via a tweet, he wrote, “Diagnosis BTW was not H1N1 but a seasonal flu + strep throat combo. A
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