STG Presents Owen Pallett 5/8

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents Owen Pallett on Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 9:00pm at the Crocodile.

Owen Pallett's live violin-looping project was named Final Fantasy, in tribute to the melodramatic videogame series. Final Fantasy's debut album, Has A Good Home (Blocks/Tomlab), was released in April 2005. The sophomore album, He Poos Clouds (Blocks/Tomlab), was written and arranged entirely for string quartet, and is a satirical song cycle based on the eight schools of magic according to Dungeons and Dragons. The Village Voice praised it as having 'the best lyrics of the year', Pitchfork described it as 'a joy to hear... this is, in a word, fierce--it can engage you on a level most albums can't', and many publications put it in their top ten lists for the year. Canadian journalists voted and awarded it the inaugural Polaris Prize for best Canadian full-length album.

Owen has been touring Final Fantasy constantly while writing string and orchestral arrangements for many releases, including Arcade Fire's Neon Bible (and Funeral), Grizzly Bear's Yellow House, Beirut's The Flying Club Cup and The Last Shadow Puppets' The Age of the Understatement. Owen curated the 2008 Maximum Black Festival. In October 2009, Final Fantasy released 2 EPs: Spectrum, 14th Century (Blocks/For Great Justice) and Plays To Please (Slender Means Society/States Rights Records/Blocks). The former contains field recordings from the fictional land of Spectrum, and the latter is a big band tribute to songwriter Alex Lukashevsky of the band Deep Dark United. Owen has orchestral arrangements featured on Pet Shop Boys' Yes and The Rumblestrips full-length Welcome to the Walk Alone produced by Mark Ronson. He has also orchestrated and conducted the film score for Richard Kelly's forthcoming movie The Box (2009) with Win Butler and Regine Chassagne. Highlights from the Final Fantasy repertoire were performed by The Brooklyn Philharmonic at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House as part of its 2009 season and will also be reprised by the Symphony Nova Scotia in November. Owen is currently completing work on his forthcoming full-length romance album entitled Heartland.

Tickets: $13.00 in advance, $15.00 day of show, not including applicable fees. Tickets are on sale Friday, February 5th @ 10am online at TheCrocodile.com. More info can be found at STGPresents.org.

Seattle Theatre Group is the 501 (c)(3) non-profit arts organization that operates the historic Paramount and Moore Theatres in Seattle, Washington. Our mission is to make diverse performing arts and education an integral part of our region's cultural identity while keeping these two landmark venues alive and vibrant. STG presents a range of performances from Broadway, off-Broadway, dance and jazz to comedy, concerts of all genres, speakers and family shows - at both historic theatres in Seattle and venues throughout the Puget Sound and Portland, Oregon.

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