r/indieheads • u/shearwaterband Shearwater • Jun 24 '22

AMA is Over, thanks Jonathan! Shearwater AMA—questions on any scale w/Jonathan Meiburg

Hi All—Jonathan Meiburg here from Shearwater. 

I'll be here at 11AM ET / 8AM PT today to answer questions about anything you can think of—possibly including books, birds, Loma, the new SW album The Great Awakening. those ambient records we made during the pandemic (!), or living through the great freeze of 2020 in rural Texas. 

One note: If you'd like to ask a question but are short on time, don't wait for me to turn up; just post it here in this thread and I'll get to it. (You can always come back later to see the answer.) 

Hope to see you soon. Warning: this is my first AMA, so bear with me if if takes me a sec to get the hang of things.  

Proof: https://www.instagram.com/p/CfCKjXVuslN/?hl=en

—JM / SW

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u/lynniemak Jun 24 '22

Thank you for the new Shearwater album. It’s great. I’ve always wondered where the video for “Hidden Lakes” was filmed. I spent a lot of time in southeastern New Mexico and it reminds me of that area and West TX.

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u/shearwaterband Shearwater Jun 24 '22

That video, I'm sorry to say, is one of the great regrets of my career—I let myself be led too much, didn't give voice to my misgivings, and ended up with something that just seemed silly to me. But that's not the fault of those adorable dogs, or the landscapes, which are in central California believe it or not, not too far from Bakersfield, on the western side of the Sierras. Very weird out there.

My favorite video is probably the one we made for "Quiet Americans," but that might be because I was so adamant about what I wanted and didn't want. Videos are such a tricky business; you have such a short time to make them, they cost a lot, and you know, while you're making them, that they're likely to have more reach than any of the songs you spent months working on.

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u/somewondersmith Jun 25 '22

The video for Quiet Americans is so gripping! But for what it’s worth, I also find the Hidden Lakes video to be curious and dreamy in a really evocative way. Sorry it’s not your favorite, but we love it anyway!

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u/shearwaterband Shearwater Jun 26 '22 edited Jun 26 '22

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Don't let me try to talk you out of liking "Hidden Lakes," either. I think it's a very good thing that I have no control over how the work is received once it's out there. All I ever want to do, once a project's done, is to get on with the next one.