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Okay!I'm not sure if i spelled her name right, but... does anyone know who Imogeene Heap is!?!?Shes an AWESOME singer, too!!!She...uh....alot of people don't know who she is!And.....i guess thats it!!!Look her up on youtube!Shes also known as frou frou!!!

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TRAILER for New Album: ELLIPSE!

Preview trailer for Imogen Heap's upcoming new album 'Ellipse'.

 

WEBSITE: http://www.imogenheap.com/

MYSPACE: http://www.myspace.com/imogenheap

TWITTER: http://twitter.com/imogenheap

 

Imogen Heap recently released the track list for her highly anticipated follow-up to 2005's "Speak for Yourself." Her third full length album entitled "Ellipse" has been in production for quite some time having an original release date of May 2008. Heap completed writing and recording the album this spring and an August date has been set for the new release which will feature thirteen new tracks by the beloved electro-pop sweetheart. Heap has kept fans up-to-date with the recording process of "Ellipse" through her official video blog. She also encouraged her fans to become involved in the process holding a contest to help with the album's artwork.

 

Heap is well known for her side project, Frou Frou, which provided the song "Let Go" to the "Garden State" soundtrack. Her song "Hide and Seek" from her 2005 release became popular after being used in an episode of the once popular television series “The OC” securing Heap both critical and public acclaim.

 

"Ellipse"

Track List:

1. First Train Home

2. Wait It Out

3. Earth

4. Little Bird

5. Swoon

6. Tidal

7. Between Sheets

8. 2 - 1

9. Bad Body Double

10. Aha!

11. The Fire

12. Canvas

13. Half Life

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Interview de Imogen Heap

Voici un extrait d'une interview d'Imogen Heap, qui partage un duo avec Mika sur le nouvel album "The Boy Who Knew Too Much". L'interview originale en entier est disponible à cette adresse, nous vous avons isolé la partie concernant Mika :

 

I heard that you collaborated with Mika.

Do you know if your track is going to be on his album?

It definitely is, yes, it is number nine. It's called 'By The Time'.

 

How did that come about and how did that collaborative process work?

Well, we met at the Ivors (Ivor Novello Awards). He won an award for the Best Songwriter of the Year. And his publisher was my publisher when I was, from like, 17 to 25 or something, and I saw him at the Ivors and he was like "oh hi, I'm with Mika, he's up for an award and he loves what you do, you should meet him." So I met him and he was really cute and we went off and had a drink with everyone else after the awards, and he said we should do some writing together. So he came round literally a couple of days later and we just worked on some stuff at home, and on the piano just wrote the basics of an idea, and went to the studio and put some vocal ideas down. We really did it in a couple of days. Then he had to go off and tour and do the rest of his record and stuff and bits and bobs. So, I spent a couple of evenings on the music and kinda left it at that. Then when they were piecing the album together I got the call saying "can we have the song", and I said "no no, it's not finished yet, I haven't done anything to it" and they were like "no, no, no, we like it as it is." So it is basically the demo that I did at like seven in the morning, and that's what went on the record.

 

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http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19336

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Interview de Imogen Heap

Voici un extrait d'une interview d'Imogen Heap, qui partage un duo avec Mika sur le nouvel album "The Boy Who Knew Too Much". L'interview originale en entier est disponible à cette adresse, nous vous avons isolé la partie concernant Mika :

 

I heard that you collaborated with Mika.

Do you know if your track is going to be on his album?

It definitely is, yes, it is number nine. It's called 'By The Time'.

 

How did that come about and how did that collaborative process work?

Well, we met at the Ivors (Ivor Novello Awards). He won an award for the Best Songwriter of the Year. And his publisher was my publisher when I was, from like, 17 to 25 or something, and I saw him at the Ivors and he was like "oh hi, I'm with Mika, he's up for an award and he loves what you do, you should meet him." So I met him and he was really cute and we went off and had a drink with everyone else after the awards, and he said we should do some writing together. So he came round literally a couple of days later and we just worked on some stuff at home, and on the piano just wrote the basics of an idea, and went to the studio and put some vocal ideas down. We really did it in a couple of days. Then he had to go off and tour and do the rest of his record and stuff and bits and bobs. So, I spent a couple of evenings on the music and kinda left it at that. Then when they were piecing the album together I got the call saying "can we have the song", and I said "no no, it's not finished yet, I haven't done anything to it" and they were like "no, no, no, we like it as it is." So it is basically the demo that I did at like seven in the morning, and that's what went on the record.

 

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http://www.mikafanclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19336 :wink2:

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I love Imogen Heap so much! I am super psyched about her and MIKA collaborating on a song. I think a lot of her fans would love him, so hopefully this'll introduce him to more people. And I just want to add that I'd rather see MIKA hanging with an actually talented female musician as opposed to, say, Lady Gag.

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I didn't know you were such a stalker Suzie. :teehee:

 

I call it 'curiosity' that helps me put pieces together in my head... :shun:

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I like how everyone in that pic has such business-like- serious faces, and there's Mika's plastic rainbow bracelet in the centre of it all.

 

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well spotted..:roftl:

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She had a very nice review in the Wall Street Journal the other day as well:

 

A Heap of Surprises

'Ellipse' is modern pop full of invention

 

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By JIM FUSILLI

 

Arriving this week after what seemed like a lengthy gestation, "Ellipse" (RCA), the new album by Imogen Heap, is smart, textured modern pop, full of invention, personality and countless joys, much like the work of Kate Bush and *Annie Lennox.

 

If you are among the *approximately one million people who follow Ms. Heap on Twitter, as I am, you've been eager to hear "Ellipse," for she posted, at times charmingly so, about 1,500 tweets about making and marketing it. I felt so intimately involved in its creation that I'd forget it didn't exist in a final form until recently; I found myself trying to remember songs I hadn't yet heard.

 

The 31-year-old Brit began writing "Ellipse" during a spontaneous trip overseas. "I didn't want to be in London, where I'd be doing my washing," she told me last month when we met in New York. "I got my laptop, went to Google Earth and spun." She visited *Hawaii, Japan, Australia, China and Thailand. While she was away, she wrote a dozen songs, six of which *appear on "Ellipse."

 

Travel, she said, "put my brain in an *interesting space." Classically trained on piano, cello and clarinet, Ms. Heap rented a flat with a grand piano in Hawaii. Work cut into her sightseeing plans—"I didn't get to see very much of Maui. I didn't want to feel like I'm slacking"—and she composed "Wait It Out. " In the full arrangement on the *album, the song retains as its platform a piano figure, but soon it slides into a collage of voices—all Ms. Heap's. She made every sound on the disc.

 

Ms. Heap had decided the songs on her new album would be composed rather than spliced together from soundscapes she created. "The last album had bits of all sorts of stuff. I had to try to cram a melody over a back track," she said, referencing 2005's "Speak for Yourself." "This album sounds different because it was a linear process."

 

When Ms. Heap returned to England "with an army of songs," she moved back into her old family house in Sussex and built a recording studio in it. "As the scaffolding was around the house, I started to hear the floorboards, the radiators. I was fresh to those sounds and I wanted to incorporate them into the album. I took a binaural microphone and walked around the house for hours. The boiler, the washing machine, my fingernails on the banister—I recorded all of it. I brought the house into the music." The interior of the 200-year-old house, she added, is elliptical. Hence the title of the new album.

 

"Ellipse" is full of surprises. The percussion and colors of electronica are prevalent, often used in unexpected combinations with natural sounds. "Canvas" springs from a nylon-stringed guitar and syncopated rhythms, while "Between Sheets" balances acoustic *piano with swooping, sweeping soundscapes and gently chugging percussion. "The Fire" is a delicate, haunting solo piano piece. Lyrically, a few songs tells stories seemingly culled from what happened to Ms. Heap moments before she set her fingers to the computer keys: A less-than-satisfying mirror image sparks "Bad Body Double," which turns out to be a song about self-doubt. In "First Train Home," she wants to escape a night out to return to work. The album's closer, "Half Life," is a heartbreaker, both lyrically and through the use of strings and layered voices.

 

"When I'm arranging *music," she told me, "I'm trying to get to the core of emotions. There might be nice, funny bits of sound, but it's a serious matter."

 

Earlier this summer, Ms. Heap faced a moment a modern recording artist dreads. A copy of her album, sent to a reviewer in the U.K., wound up for sale on eBay. She posted a note about it on Twitter and many of her fans were outraged—we knew how hard she'd worked on "Ellipse." Now there was the possibility it would be widely distributed for free. Ms. Heap and her fans bid it up to more than £10 million to short-circuit the auction and eBay stepped in. (See http://blogs.wsj.com/*speakeasy.)

 

The reaction of fans to her posts on social-networking sites and YouTube motivated Ms. Heap while she was working on "Ellipse." "I needed to know people were there and waiting for it," she said. "Tweeting and YouTubing made me feel like I was taking steps forward. The other thing is, I don't have a boyfriend. Now I'm on my own, rattling around the house. Twittering became a surrogate boyfriend. I was worried that it would dispel the magic, but it didn't."

 

Also... saw on Twitter this morning that you can get her new video for

Canvas by sending a tweet out. Visit here: http://immi.fm/VGm

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I like how everyone in that pic has such business-like- serious faces, and there's Mika's plastic rainbow bracelet in the centre of it all.

 

:roftl:

 

love how both plasti multi-colored bracelets look so incredibly cool and in total contrast to the 'serious' dark colors that everyone is wearing:biggrin2:

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Imogen Heap Interview

Posted on October 28, 2009 at 10:31 am by Clare Lydon

 

Imogen Heap’s new album Ellipse debuted in the US album charts at No.5 last month. We caught up with the woman who some call the Queen of the Digital Age to chat about why America loves her more than her native UK, how she’s now mates with Mika, how she’s managed to get over a million followers on Twitter and why she invites these friends to comment on her music as she makes it and buys them drinks into the bargain at Heap Tweet-Ups…

 

Your new single First Train Home is a beautiful song about wanting to leave a party you’re not having fun at. Tell me a bit about it…

 

“My friend was trying to get me out for the night but I was really stressed and wasn’t in the mood - there were loads of builders in my house doing my new studio. But I went thinking it would be good for me, tried to socialise but I just couldn’t get into it - the more fun everyone else was having, the less I was. I hid in a room for a while, then I phoned to see what time the first train home was, went home and wrote the song - so something good came out of it.”

 

And what does your friend think of you telling this story?

 

“She’s fine with it - she’s more upset that I didn’t tell her I was feeling like that at the time!”

 

Your new album Ellipse has had great reviews and debuted top five in the US charts - how do you explain your greater success over there?

 

“I think it’s because the internet is far more advanced in the States - they’re about three years ahead in terms of blogging and online communities. Also, I got a lot of support from college radio in the US so that helped - I never get played on the radio here. I’ve been building a career steadily in the US for 13 years now and the top five chart position is a direct result of my constant blogging and connection with the fans throughout the making of the record.”

 

You keep in touch with fans via your website, video blogs and Twitter, where you have over a million followers. Do you enjoy that side of things?

 

“I really do. When I first started I was always curious about who was listening to my music - the only way I found out was when I saw them at my gigs. But now, every day I get messages from my listeners and really connect with them. I don’t make my music for me - I make it to be listened to and I love making a connection with people. If Twitter and YouTube were taken away now I’d be devastated.”

 

Have you met any of your fans via Twitter?

 

“Absolutely. I arrange Heap Tweet-Ups and fans come down. I buy all the drinks and we chat about the music - I really enjoy it. For this album, I loved the first time I played it to a bunch of fans - being there when that happened completed the circle - the album doesn’t feel finish to me until it’s heard by the listener.”

 

You’ve said before that you like to incorporate unusual sounds in your songs like food frying. Any included on the new album?

 

“The frying food was me cooking spaghetti bolognese in the background of Hide And Seek. I’ve included loads of stuff in this record - mostly house noises - I even recorded the dripping in the kitchen sink in the second verse of Wait It Out.”

 

Your music has also found fame on shows like The OC and Heroes. Are you looking to get placed in other shows/films?

 

“Absolutely! I can’t rely on record sales anymore for my income and I don’t get on the radio, so other forms of money are a lifeline - I also write and produce for other people too. But getting on shows like The OC also opens my music up to a whole new audience who would otherwise never have heard of me. I sometimes wake up in a cold sweat because I know that there’s so much music out there that I’d love and that would change my life but I’ll never hear it.”

 

You re-mortgaged your flat to pay for your last album to be made - would you describe yourself as a risk-taker?

 

“I considered it more of a risk to stay with Island and watch them bugger it up again - doing it myself put the control in my hands and ever since then my career’s been going brilliantly.”

 

You love collaborating with others, including Mika on his recent album. How did that come about?

 

“It was very random - I met him at the Ivor Novello Awards through an old friend of mine. He said that Mika loved my music, and he was tall, charming and a bit zany - just my type. We hit it off and he asked to do something with me so I said yes. I loved it - it was outside my comfort zone and really sparked my creativity. I’m really proud of the song - I recorded the music in one night and that’s what went on the album which was a bit mortifying - I usually fiddle with it for months but Mika loved it.”

 

http://uk.real.com/music/blog/2009/10/28/imogen-heap-interview

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