Flavors of Entanglement
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Flavors of Entanglement[1] is the seventh studio album and fifth international release by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette.
History
In March 2005, Morissette said she was ready to begin work on a new album, explaining that she had filled four journals and usually began writing a new album after filling two — "I'm very pregnant with songs", she said.[2] She mentioned her intentions for the sound of the album in a December 2005 interview to promote Alanis Morissette: The Collection, saying she "would love to fuse the technological sonic landscapes with the more organic ones".[3] In January 2006, Rolling Stone wrote that Morissette was in between "intense" writing sessions for her upcoming studio album, for which she had enlisted multiple collaborators, including Mike Elizondo, who produced her song "Wunderkind" for the soundtrack of the 2005 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Morissette described herself as "teeming with ideas" because she hadn't written an album in three years (her previous studio album, So-Called Chaos, was released in 2004); she said "I have more than enough thoughts to congeal together."[4] Subsequently, Morissette took an indefinite hiatus from music. No official announcement or reason was made for the break, though multiple sources were cited at the time.[citation needed] Morissette took the time to relax, vacation, and film some television appearances. It was then unknown to her fanbase when and if she would return to music.[5]
In October 2006, Morissette said in an interview with TV Guide that she was going to enter the studio and start writing new material over the next few weeks, saying "at the present, I have seven journals full. I have a lot within me ready to burst out."[6] During the first quarter of 2007, word spread through fan forums[citation needed] that she was working with producer and musician Guy Sigsworth. Morissette released a cover of The Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps" in April 2007, and the high quality of the recording led to speculation among fans that she was in the studio working on an album.[7] Morissette performed at a gig for The Nightwatchman, a.k.a. Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles on April 24. There, she said that she and Sigsworth had been "sequestered" in London and Los Angeles during the previous few months writing "a bevy of new songs". Accompanied by Sigsworth on piano, Morissette played a new song, "Not as We".[8]
In August, Sigsworth said in an interview with arbiter.co.uk that twenty-five songs were written for the album, thirteen had been recorded, and eight more were being recorded after Morissette requested B-sides and "exclusives". Sigsworth Sigsworth described Morissette as "a dream to work with" and "totally into my sound world."[9] In the same interview, guitarist and programmer Andy Page said that at one point, they were working on twelve of the tracks simultaneously, and that one contains "moshing distorted guitars" and a "'wall-of-noise'" created using Guitar Rig. Page also said that he had used the graphical modular software music studio Reaktor on the album, saying of it that "I prefer using its granulators and weirder signal processors to its synths. Some of its physically modeled stuff is very cool, and there are some cool wavetable synths."[9] An October 2007 interview with Morissette published on the blog Holons 2.0 reported that the title of the album was Flavors of Entanglement, although it said no release date was set.[1]
Another new song, "Underneath", was premiered on September 15 at the Kodak Theatre[citation needed] in Los Angeles, as part of the Elevate Film Festival.[10][11] The purpose of the festival was to create documentaries, music videos, narratives and shorts regarding subjects to raise the level of human consciousness on the earth.[12] Morissette submitted the song, and then (as with the other fourteen videos) had the music video written, directed, shot and edited in two days. The video features Morissette and a few other characters around a pool, and swimming. Morissette also walks around or lays down as she sings either into or off camera. The song and video were met by a very receptive crowd.[13]
Known songs
The following is a list of songs known to have been written for Flavors of Entanglement; whether they will appear on the new album is unknown.
- "Not as We" (premiered live in April 2007)
- "Underneath" (premiered via film festival in September 2007)
- "Moon" (mentioned in Bella magazine October 2007 issue)
Credits
- Alanis Morissette – vocals
- Guy Sigsworth – production, engineering
- Andy Page – guitars, programming, mixing
- Sean McGhee – programming, engineering
- Fiora – unknown contributions
Notes
- ^ a b deVos, Corey W. "Alanis Morissette on Integral Naked". Holons 2.0. October 1 2007.
- ^ Newman, Melinda. "10 Years On, Alanis Unplugs 'Little Pill'". Billboard. March 4 2005.
- ^ CoDDon, DaviD L. "Alanis Morissette plans new album in 2006, 'Collection' now". Copley News Service via The Salem Observer. December 22 2005, pg. 7.
- ^ Baltin, Steve. "Alanis Writing Memoir, Album". Rolling Stone. January 13 2006.
- ^ http://www.myspace.com/alanismorissette
- ^ Murphy, Mary. "Will Alanis Morissette and Nip/Tuck's Liz Make Beautiful Music Together?". TV Guide. October 31 2006.
- ^ Saxberg, Lynn. "Bloggers, 'Tubers all atwitter over Morissette's video parody of the Peas". The Ottawa Citizen. April 5 2007.
- ^ "Alanis Morissette - Not as we". YouTube: wildtroz. May 5 2007.
- ^ a b "Guy Sigsworth and Andy Page - NI 'Everytime'...". arbiter.co.uk. August 29 2007.
- ^ MusicMan. "Alanis Morissette 'Underneath' Video At Elevate Film Festival". Popdirt.com. September 19 2007.
- ^ "New Alanis Morissette Live Video - 'Underneath'". stereogum. September 24 2007.
- ^ Official Elevate Film Festival website. September 15 2007.
- ^ http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.channel&ChannelID=2063963
References
- Robertson, Jessica. "Alanis Morissette Exploring 'Flavors' on New Album". AOL Music PopEater. October 3 2007.