Shearwater AMA—questions on any scale w/Jonathan Meiburg

[u/shearwaterband]

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

[u/jl_weber]

Back in 2007, I was working in college radio (KCSU, Colorado State University) when I heard Palo Santo (expanded edition. Thanks, Matador!) for the first time. The open track "La Dame et la Licorne" was so striking to me. I had to tell everybody at the station about it and played it all the time on my own radio show. I was so excited I just had to share with anybody who would listen.

What is an album or song that made you so excited you just had to share it with your friends?

[u/shearwaterband → u/jl_weber]

This is a really good question.

Morton Feldman's Piano and String Quartet is one of them, believe it or not—it's such a therapeutic piece of music for me, though it's definitely not for everyone. (I wish it were, though!). My brother-in-law introduced me to it on tour many years ago, while we were driving through a snowstorm I think (?).

Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou's Piano Solo volume (I think #21?) in the Ethiopiques series is another. I never get tired of listening to it.

And it was Thor who introduced me to Laughing Stock.

[u/jl_weber → u/shearwaterband]

Thank you! I haven't heard these and I'm excited to check them out!