Welcome to The Heart of The House
A site dedicated to the one and only Alanis Morissette. And also to the fans out there!
Note: If you're looking for the updates from October or any other previous months, they're in the Archives section of this site. They are located under the Misc. link.
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Jan. 24, 2004 - Site Updates
For those of you who haven't noticed, I finally got a bio! An Alanis bio, that is. Anyways, I wanna thank MuchMusic for providing most of the info.
Oh yeah, my site turned 4. Happy 4th Birthday, Heart of the House.
Jan.16, 2004 - MORE NEWS!!!!
ALANIS MORISSETTE READY TO TAKE ON 'SO-CALLED CHAOS'
ALANIS MORISSETTE will release her new album SO-CALLED CHAOS April 13 on Maverick Records. Co-produced by ALANIS, John Shanks and Tim Thorney, the album features 10 new songs written by ALANIS that set her free-flowing vocals, luminescent melodies and fervent introspection in a seamless mix of rock, pop, folk, electronic and Eastern stylings. The seven-time Grammy Award winner will shoot a video for the album’s first single “Everything”-due out February 23.
SO-CALLED CHAOS marks ALANIS’ fourth Maverick studio album, following 2002’s three million worldwide-seller, the critically acclaimed UNDER RUG SWEPT, which she also wrote and self-produced. SO-CALLED CHAOS also comes on the heels of FEAST ON SCRAPS, the combination DVD/CD package (released in late 2002) that contained eight songs that didn't make it onto UNDER RUG SWEPT.
This time around, MORISSETTE chose to share producing responsibilities. “I had spent a few years rising to my own occasion in terms of wanting to see, out of curiosity, what producing a record on my own would be like,” Morissette explains. “Then once I tasted what that was like, I realized my favorite aspect of making a record was the writing of it. This way was so much more relaxing for me.”
The sessions for SO-CALLED CHAOS--held primarily at Groove Masters studio in Santa Monica, California--featured performances from MORISSETTE’s touring band (guitarists David Levita and Jason Orme; bassist Eric Avery; keyboardist Zac Rae; and drummer Blair Sinta) as well as some favorite associates of Shanks, including drummer Kenny Aronoff.
SO-CALLED CHAOS builds on elements from all of ALANIS’ albums: it moves from the rockers “Eight Easy Steps” and “Excuses,” to the mid-tempo, introspective pop songs “Out Is Through” and “Everything,” to songs like “So-Called Chaos” and “Spineless,” both of which combine emotionally gripping lyrics with adventurous soundscapes.
MORISSETTE is excited to take the songs from SO-CALLED CHAOS on the road. “I am beside myself with anticipation to tour,” she says. “I’m really excited to travel the world even more than I have over the last couple of years. In keeping with wanting my life to be a little bit more balanced, I’d love to make it that I’m touring whether I have a record out or not, and the tours themselves won’t be breakneck year-and-a-half tours. I choose to balance everything out a little bit more. We also recorded 14 acoustic songs from the last five records--including this one—with the intention of releasing that mid year. I am inspired to balance my energy expenditure and my energy rejuventation, regardless of what it is that I’m doing with my days.”
The complete track listing for SO-CALLED CHAOS:
Eight Easy Steps
Out Is Through
Excuses
Doth I Protest Too Much
Knees Of My Bees
Not All Me
So-Called Chaos
This Grudge
Spineless
Everything
Source:www.maverick.com
Jan. 14, 2004
Alanis makes sense of her so-called chaos
Singer-Songwriter Returns with 10 New Confessionals
Alanis Morissette’s career can best be described as a voyage in self-discovery. After tasting stardom at an early age in her Canadian homeland with assorted teen-pop albums and TV roles, she found herself responsible for one of the most widely publicized songs to come out of the ’90s — "You Oughta Know." Seven Grammys and tens of millions of albums sold later, she has become one of the most universally recognized solo recording artists of her generation.
All the while, the content behind Morissette’s albums — from the 16-times-platinum Jagged Little Pill to 2002’s under rug swept — has reflected the trials and tribulations of a maturing young female coming to grips with her inner self — and trying to reconcile that identity with a turbulent outer world. Recent travels to India and a Navajo pilgrimage have decorated her later works with a sense of worldliness that did not appear previously.
Excluding 1991’s Alanis and the following year’s Now Is the Time — both high-selling, but nonetheless teen-pop, releases — So-Called Chaos (Maverick, February 24) is Morissette’s fourth proper studio release as a singer/songwriter. It consists of 10 new confessionals and is the result of the loosest recording process she has engaged in thus far.
ICE spoke with Morissette in early December, as she was participating briefly in an off-Broadway, Bob Balaban-directed theatrical production called The Exonerated.
"I started writing on and off throughout mid-summer, and then realized I wasn’t gonna overwrite this time," Morissette tells ICE. "It isn’t as physically draining to access my inner world now, so I’m just not as spent when it’s finished. The last time, I wrote about 25 songs… I overdid it, and wound up having two records [under rug swept and its DVD/CD companion, feast on scraps: inside under rug swept]. This time I knew when to stop myself — it’s a good thing, self-editing."
–Kurt Orzeck
Source:www.icemagazine.com
Jan. 12, 2004
First of all, I hope you all have had happy holidays. See, I didn't update my page over my vacation :-P Why should I :-P Anyways, now that I'm back on track, I should update sometime. First of all, Happy New Years - 2004!
Secondly, here are some news about the new album: Alanis Morissette Creates 'So-Called Chaos'
Seven-time Grammy Award winner Alanis Morissette is back, with the release of So-Called Chaos, her fourth Maverick studio album, on April 12th. So-Called Chaos is her first album since 2002's #2 hit Under Rug Swept.
Produced with John Shanks (Sheryl Crow, Pink) and recorded in a Santa Monica studio owned by Jackson Browne, So-Called Chaos is a rumoured return to form for Alanis.
Track titles revealed so far include the goth-tinged ‘Eight Easy Steps', 'The Grudge', an ode to purging negative thoughts, the sitar-featuring 'Knees Of My Bees' and 'Everything', the first single out on April 5th.
Aside from writing and recording new material, Alanis recently starred in an off-Broadway production of 'The Exonerated' and will also feature in an upcoming biopic of Cole Porter, starring Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd.
Source:www.soundgenerator.com
So yea, mark it down on your calendars APRIL 5th new single! New album! New Alanis!
Dec. 4, 2003- site update
I have two new wallpapers up (in the downloads section, duh). Both available in 800x600 and 1024x768. Be on the look out for one of them having a fragment from So Pure "I love you when you dance when you freestyle in trance So Pure its such an expression" and the other one having the lyrics for Unsent.
Also in the downloads section, I have added a new section: Fonts! Get your Alanis Hand today, courtesy of James. They are glyphs derived from various Alanis Morissette handwriting scans. If you want to see this font in action, check out my Unsent wallpaper.
Enjoy
Dec. 3, 2003 - UN Climate Conference
U.N. Climate Conference Opens in Italy
By LUCA BRUNO
Associated Press Writer
MILAN, Italy (AP)--A U.N. conference on climate change opened Monday with organizers stressing there was "unquestionable" scientific proof that humans were responsible for global warming, but the meeting was nevertheless clouded by new doubts about the viability of the Kyoto pact on curbing greenhouse gas emissions.
The conference host, Italian Environment Minister Altero Matteoli, said in his opening remarks that he would have liked to have welcomed delegates to a conference for a treaty that had already entered into force. But with Russia now signaling it won't join Kyoto, that opportunity was lost.
"But this does not mean that our commitment and our work to strengthen the global strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to strengthen the adaptation of the planet's most vulnerable regions to climate change should be weakened," he said.
The Kyoto treaty, negotiated in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, sets a target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 8 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.
The United States rejected it in 2001, saying the cuts would be too harmful to the U.S. economy. President Bush also questioned the science behind the restrictions proposed by Kyoto, and called for more studies.
To take effect, the Kyoto pact must be ratified by at least 55 countries, including those responsible for causing 55 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions in 1990. With the United States out, that minimum can be reached only with Russian participation.
But last October, Russian President Vladimir Putin predicted that the pact would fail to reverse climate change, even if every country complied. His economic adviser, Andrei Illarionov, contended the treaty would "doom Russia to poverty, weakness and backwardness."
Russia's response to Kyoto has cast a cloud over the conference, with participants saying they doubt any major breakthroughs will be achieved and that alternative strategies would be discussed in the corridors.
"The big question now is not the U.S. but Russia," said Alden Meyer, a conference participant from the Washington-based Union of Concerned Scientists.
Annie Petsonk, international counsel for the Washington-based group Environmental Defense, concurred, and said time was running out for countries to commit.
"Evidence of climate change is becoming increasingly apparent, and the time window for action to get the greenhouse gasses reduced is becoming more urgent," she said.
Hungarian Environment Minister Miklos Persanyi, the conference chairman, urged delegates at the opening session Monday to pursue the path that they had already chosen to reduce emissions because "we should never forget that human-induced global environmental change presents a risk to our common future."
He said that scientific data to be presented during the meeting would show that greenhouse gasses are steadily increasing, and that "the link between the higher concentration of these gases in the atmosphere and human activities causing these emissions is already unquestionable."
"The scenarios by scientists on the future behavior of the global climate are different, but all are alarming," he said.
The United States is sending a delegation that includes the U.S. undersecretary for global affairs, Paula Dobriansky, as well as the administrator of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Retired Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr.
Dobriansky, as well as many as 80 ministers from around the world, were expected to attend only the high-level sessions at the end of the meeting.
In a telephone interview ahead of the conference, Lautenbacher said scientists differ among themselves about how much of global warming can be blamed on humans.
"Climate science is at the beginning of its life," he said. "I do believe we need more scientific info before we commit to a process like Kyoto."
The conference, which was attracting thousands of environmentalists, researchers and government delegations, got off to something of a slow start Monday because of a massive one-day transport strike in Milan and the rest of Italy which crippled traffic in Italy's financial capital.
Some of the highlights of the two-week meeting include a screening of a Canadian documentary on global warming narrated by Keanu Reeves and Alanis Morissette; scientific roundtables and exhibits on everything from "extreme meteorological events" in the Alps to the impact of climate change on peatlands.
Watch the video:
Alanis Keeanu.mov
Source:www.unfccc.int
Nov. 26, 2003 - Alanis off-Broadway!
SEVEN-TIME GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING MUSICIAN, STAGE AND FILM ACTRESS ALANIS MORISSETTE STEPS INTO THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED HIT OFF-BROADWAY PLAY, THE EXONERATED, FOR ONE WEEK ONLY;
ALANIS MORISSETTE WILL PORTRAY EXONEREE SUNNY JACOBS STARTING DECEMBER 2ND THROUGH DECEMBER 7TH
Seven-time Grammy Award-winning musician, stage and film actress ALANIS MORISSETTE steps into the critically acclaimed hit off- Broadway play "The Exonerated" for ONE WEEK ONLY. ALANIS MORISSETTE will portray exoneree Sunny Jacobs starting December 2nd through December 7th. Directed by Bob Balaban, The Exonerated opened on October 10th, 2002 to rave reviews. It has received numerous awards including a 2002-2003 Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award as well as the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers Champion of Justice Award, and Court TV's Annual Scales of Justice Award.
Arriving on the scene in 1995 with the groundbreaking multi-Grammy Award-winning album JAGGED LITTLE PILL, ALANIS MORISSETTE has become one of the premiere singer/songwriter/musicians in contemporary music. Her deeply expressive music and performances have earned the seven-time Grammy Award winner vast critical praise and a dedicated fan-base that extends throughout the world. Her other albums include the recently released UNDER RUG SWEPT (2002), and SUPPOSED FORMER INFATUATION JUNKIE (1998), as well as an MTV Unplugged album (1999). In addition to her musical accomplishments, ALANIS has also expanded her career by directing music videos and acting in the film "Dogma" and HBO's "Sex In the City." ALANIS also appeared off-Broadway in "The Vagina Monologues." At the same time, ALANIS has remained at the forefront of humanitarian issues, Internet technology, and music artists' rights, participating in various benefit performances including the John Lennon Tribute from New York City, Toronto's Music Without Borders event, Seattle's Groundworks, and The Great Jubilee Concert for A Debt-Free World. She has visited and performed in fifteen countries and was awarded a Global Tolerance Award by the Friends of The United Nations in December 2001.
"The Exonerated" began its journey over the summer of 2000, when married authors Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen traveled across the United States, interviewing 40 of the (then) 89 former death row prisoners. They went as far south as Texas and Miami, as far north as Chicago and just about everywhere in between to meet the people whose stories appear in "The Exonerated." The interviewees were from vastly different ethnic, religious and educational backgrounds. Their views on the world varied greatly. The only thing they had in common was that all 40 had been sentenced to death, spent anywhere from 2 to 22 years on death row and were subsequently found innocent and freed by the state. Their interviews form the core of The Exonerated.
Directed by Bob Balaban, "The Exonerated" began performances at The Culture Project at 45 Bleecker Theater (at Bleecker and Lafayette Streets) on October 1, 2002, opened on October 10, 2002 and continues its critically acclaimed run.
Produced by The Culture Project, Dede Harris, Morton Swinsky, Bob Balaban, Allan Buchman, Patrick Blake, David Elliott, Jane Bergere, Ruth Hendel, Cheryl Wiesenfeld.
"The Exonerated" is at 45 Bleecker Theater, 45 Bleecker Street (@ Lafayette). For tickets and information call Ticketmaster (212) 307-4100 or the box office at (212) 253-9983. The playing schedule of "The Exonerated" is Tuesday-Friday at 8 p.m., Wednesday and Sunday at 3 pm, Saturday at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Tickets, which are $56 Tuesday-Thursday at 8 p.m. and Wednesday at 3 p.m. and $61 Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 5 and 9 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. and may be purchased through Ticketmaster (212) 307-4100 or on their website, www.ticketmaster.com or at The Culture Project Box Office- (212) 253-9983, 45 Bleecker Street. Box-office hours are: Monday 12:00 - 6:00 p.m., Tuesday - Friday noon to 8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday noon to 7 p.m.
Source:www.alanis.com
Nov. 24, 2003 - More news on her new album!
Alanis Morissette Album Due In February
Monday November 24, 2003 @ 06:30 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
With the year swiftly coming to a close, music fans are reflecting on the best albums of 2003 and looking forward to the upcoming heavy hitters that will make 2004 the best year in music ever! Alanis Morissette is one of the artists we can expect new material from next year, as the Ottawa native is prepping for the follow up to 2002’s Under Rug Swept album with a brand new disc to come out next February.
At the moment Morissette is putting the final gloss to the new record, already named So-Called Chaos. The album that was written this past summer with collaborators Tim Thorney and John Shanks. The album was recorded in Santa Monica in a studio owned by ChartAttack favourite Jackson Browne.
Expect a new sound and new look from Alanis as she’s shed the Cher-hair and, according to RollingStone.com, has even gone for an experimental approach to her sound that promises to boast dance loops, heavy guitars and softer vibes. Song titles reportedly include "Eight Easy Steps," "Out Is Through," "Knees Of My Bees" and the title track of the album. The songs are to range from soft ballads to full-out rockers. We’ll let you know once a concrete date for So-Called Chaos is named by Morissette’s label.
Last spring Morissette picked up the Producer Of The Year award for her work on Under Rug Swept.
—Aaron Foster
Source:www.chartattack.com
ALANIS CHAOS THEORY
Alanis Morissette will return with a new album early next year, dotmusic can confirm.
Work on 'So-Called Chaos' - her fourth studio album - is currently being completed in San Diego and sees Ms Morissette back working with previous collaborators Tim Thorney and John Shanks.
"I started writing on and off this summer very reticently," she told Rolling Stone.
"I wrote a couple of songs, ventured away from the studio, then ventured back in. By the fall I realized I had enough songs that could make a record."
The full tracklisting for the follow up to 2002's 'Under Rug Swept' has yet to be announced but 'Knees of My Bees', 'Eight Easy Steps', 'Everything', 'Out Is Through', and 'This Grudge' will feature on the album.
"At this particular time in my life the challenge for me was to figure out this concept of forgiveness that always sounded so great on paper.
"But how do you do it? I could say, 'Yes, I forgive you.' But that doesn't mean I truly forgive a person. So this song wasn't even so much about my having done it; it was about my yearning and readiness to do it, or so I think."
According to Rolling Stone, the album's title track is a departure for Alanis with the lyrics: "I want to be naked running through the streets/I want to invite this so-called chaos that you think I dare not be."
Alanis had so far failed to match the phenomenal success of 1996's 'Jagged Little Pill' with her subsequent efforts 'Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie' and 'Under Rug Swept'.
Source:www.dotmusic.com
Nov. 21, 2003 - News about the upcoming album!
Alanis Embraces "Chaos"
Morissette gets experimental on upcoming album
Alanis Morissette will release So-Called Chaos in late February. She is currently putting the finishing touches on the album, the follow-up to last year's Under Rug Swept, with longtime collaborator Tim Thorney and John Shanks (Michelle Branch) in a Santa Monica recording studio owned by Jackson Browne. "I started writing on and off this summer very reticently," she says. "I wrote a couple of songs, ventured away from the studio, then ventured back in. By the fall I realized I had enough songs that could make a record."
One of the first tracks written for the album was "Knees of My Bees," a song Morissette calls a tribute to her boyfriend of more than a year. "I always have to honor him in some way," she says.
Among the rest of the ten tracks are "Eight Easy Steps," a song that begins with seductive dance loops, then bursts into its explosive, guitar-heavy chorus; the mid-tempo rocker "Everything"; and "Out Is Through," which begins with a soft melodic intro and evolves into a towering hook.
"This Grudge" is a pretty ballad about letting go. Morissette sings, "Fourteen years, thirty minutes, fifteen seconds I've held this grudge/Eleven songs, four full journals, thoughts of punishments I've expended."
"At this particular time in my life the challenge for me was to figure out this concept of forgiveness that always sounded so great on paper," Morissette explains. "But how do you do it? I could say, 'Yes, I forgive you.' But that doesn't mean I truly forgive a person. So this song wasn't even so much about my having done it; it was about my yearning and readiness to do it, or so I think."
The album's title comes from a song of the same name that is one of Morissette's most adventurous. It begins a detached, looping vocal, and builds into a high-energy chorus in which Morissette sings, "I want to be naked running through the streets/I want to invite this so-called chaos that you think I dare not be," and then climaxes with a wall of distortion.
The experimental nature of "Chaos" is echoed elsewhere throughout the album: Morissette plays around with dance loops, as well as her love for Indian music ("Knees of my Bees" employs a sitar). "My records inform me about where I'm at," she says.
So where does she find herself on So-Called Chaos? "I don't consider myself to be a piano artist, a loop artist, or a hip-hop artist. I don't know what I am . . . and that shows."
Source: www.RollingStone.com
Nov. 15, 2003
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