Sorpresa: scarica il nuovo album di Nicolas Jaar



All’inizio dell’anno, Nicolas Jaar aveva rilasciato una colonna sonora alternativa per il film sovietico The Color of Pomegranates, diretto da Sergei Parajanov. Oggi, a sorpresa, ha deciso di condividere un link di download gratuito della colonna sonora.

La cartella include l’album, degli artworks e una nota dell’artista che dettaglia le origini del progetto. Jaar spiega che alcuni pezzi sono stati realizzati prima ancora di aver visto il film. Ecco la nota completa:

At the beginning of 2015 my friend Milo heard some of these songs and told me about the film. I watched it and was dumbfounded. I felt the aesthetic made complete sense with the strange themes I had been obsessed with over the past couple of years..I was curious to see what my songs sounded like when synced with the images, which turned into a 2-day bender where I soundtracked the entire film, creating a weird collage of the ambient music I had made over the last 2 years.

The film gave me a structure to follow and themes to stick to.It gave clarity to this music that was made mostly out of and through chaos. It also gave me the balls to put it out… I wanted to do some screenings but the guy who owns the rights to the film only wants the original version of the movie out there. I can’t blame him, I’m sure Paradjanov wouldn’t want some kid in NY pissing all over his masterpiece and calling it a soundtrack! I’ve listened to it a couple of times without watching the movie and I think it stands on its own. Or at least I hope it can!