Owen Pallett

Owen Pallett (born 1979) is a young Canadian artist. A training violinist, he released two albums under the pseudonym of Final Fantasy (Final Fantasy Has A Good Home in 2005 and He Poos Clouds in 2006) before returning under his real surname in 2010 for Heartland. While the hype caught up with him that year, Pallett also deserved to be attached to his previous life: the 2006 winner of the first Polaris Prize (as Patrick Watson, Caribou or Fucked Up were after him), he also shot, in his early days, with the small Montréal-based Arcade Fire whose string arrangements he co-wrote on Funeral and Neon Bible. Remarkable for his live performances, Owen Pallett delivers on stage a "violonated" folk, made of arrangements of all kinds and delusional loops allowing him to fill, alone, the vital space of an entire orchestra.
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