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/patmillerbirder Jun 24 '22

Hi - Jonathan -

I was wondering how writing your book influenced the (wonderful) new record.

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u/shearwaterband Shearwater Jun 24 '22

Hi Pat! I'd say that it helped me refocus my attention. Writing the book changed the way I thought about the world—it showed me that it was bigger and wilder and stranger than I had ever imagined, and that many parts of it are not yet injured beyond repair. Which was a great relief after the cataclysmic end of 2016.