Nicolas Jaar: I was a Teenage Villalobos

Did I see something on twitter about a new solo album?

yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGeNUgizTaM

we never mentioned his soundtrack for The Color of Pomegranates, worth listening to

woah what

Nymphs II is rather good.

Vimeo had a full-length Color of Pomegranates video with the new soundtrack synced, but it got taken down.

damn, i'm dying to see/hear it now

Free download!

@nicolas___jaar
If you're at a computer, here's a DL for my album "Pomegranates" http://bit.ly/1e45wwv

I'm at work. Has anyone listened to this yet?

Also at work. Have downloaded but this will be a treat for tonight. You get lots of bonus material with the tracks (all .m4a format btw): photos, PDFs, etc.

i think i still have a .AVI of pomegrantes somewhere

Apparently this is an alternate soundtrack that Jaar made for the movie 'The Colour of Pomegranates' from 1969. It's a film with some breath-taking imagery and it's among my favorite films from the decade. Don't know if this is commissioned work or just a fan hommage by Jaar but makes me happy this exists.

I still haven't listened to the album. Anyone knows if there's a version that pairs the original movie with this alt. soundtrack?

Oh hey! I found it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2462&v=WHZGDDE8n4E

Ok, 10 minutes in and this is great! The original film is one of my favorite movies from the 60's and Jaar is one of my favorite artists of the past decade! Seeing/hearing the two together is amazing. It would be so good if he started doing alt. soundtracks of 60's/70's trippy arthouse films for fun as a series. Other films which would be great if soundtracked by Jaar:

Sedmikrasky (1966)
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
The Devils (1971)
Zabriskie Point (1970)
Diabel (1972)
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
The Holy Mountain (1973)
Hausu (1977)
3 women (1977)
Suspiria (1976)

yeah but color of pomegranates has no dialogue

cf. Hawk and a Hacksaw's You Have Already Gone to the Other World

i tried downloading this and there were no files in the zip, i don't know if my dl kept getting interrupted or what (i tried three times). :(

Took me a while to find then tbh but they are in there. When I decompressed it I got a chess knight icon, clicked on that and the music files are in an icon that looks like the mac terminal window, if you know what tHat looks like. Or maybe it didn't download properly indeed.

if you open the zip in Windows Explorer it looks empty, but if you extract it with an expander tool it works.

i found pomegranates rather underwhelming. will he ever make music as incredible as the run of remixes and singles before his debut album again?

Its not supposed to be listened as an album I think.

how convenient

he says he hopes to release it on vinyl, so i suppose he does reckon it should be listened to as an album.

So, does he plan to release all of those remixes and songs in vinyl or whatever format other than mp3 at any point?

The Student
Russian Dolls
With just one glance you (and the brilliant 'And I say' remix by xinobi)
No Regular Play - Owe Me rmx
Ellen Allien - Flashy Flashy rmx
The Bees - Winter Rose rmx
The Hellen Hollins Singers - Consolation edit

I don't think any of those have an official physical release and they're all great.

Also this which I suppose it's an alias and which is also amazing:

Iva Gocheva - Bring The Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jGLE5nCCcg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iT2RPAKwNkc

well its a great sample

his mixes are the best. the reharmonized Lashun Pace thing, the Reich blend/edit...
http://ra5.residentadvisor.net/RA500_151228_Nicolas-Jaar-x-residentadvisor.net.mp3

gonna give the mix a listen but i felt like he reealllllly fell off last year, was completely underwhelmed (and in fact bored) by all the nymphs releases. his debut album was already a bit of step down from the singles and remixes that preceded it (feel like floating points' album has a similar relationship to his previous singles) and he just seems to be heading further and further in that direction.

i wasn't really into the Floating Points album, but it seemed pretty clear that he was trying to do something totally different from the dance singles.

well duh, ditto jaar's album vs singles, i just think it's a worse thing

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbZHH0iW0AAZdR9.jpg

gonna give the mix a listen but i felt like he reealllllly fell off last year, was completely underwhelmed (and in fact bored) by all the nymphs releases. his debut album was already a bit of step down from the singles and remixes that preceded it (feel like floating points' album has a similar relationship to his previous singles) and he just seems to be heading further and further in that direction.

OTM with his solo stuff, but I still really love his Darkside work the most. But yeah, it feels like he's already lost the energy and vitality that his early teenage tracks had and has self indulged bit too heavily these days. His RA 500 mix was okay.

Fights was the best thing I've heard from him, but the supposed genius of those early singles has never been readily apparent to me.

The debut album was gorgeous on a phenomenological level - I could listen to it just for the richness of the sound - but it was more than a little lacking in tunes. I've heard most of the early singles now and they're OK; prefer the Floating Points stuff.

The title track of the debut album had enough tunes - and a drop - to fill the whole record for me. I loved the album and still listen to that title track all the time.

http://other-people.network/#/channels/333?_k=zn9crg

now that's a confusing player if I ever did see one

sounds good though!

couldn't tell if it wasn't working for me or if i was just dumb.

I'm finding the new one pretty boring and I feel pretty stupid about it

i hate this album

this guy sounds way better on paper than in real life

here I'll ruin Nicolas jaar for you:

Moby_Play.jpg

Nah, I'm hearing much more Suicide than Moby

classic sequence of inspired dance(-ey) singles -> tepid non-dancey albums -> undue critical adulation for artsy album twaddle -> reinforcing cycle

Haven't heard the new album, Jaar did a bunch of dance stuff with sampled old blues vocals, hence bad joke

His records just sound fabulous; it's very easy to soak into them on a sensual level. There are a handful of extended grooves on the new one where he's doing very lush things - The Governor, Three Sides of Nazareth - but there's also a bunch of stuff that makes me wonder wtf he's playing at.

otm. "sirens" on three sides of nazareth rules

just dropped a surprise album as Against All Logic

it's on Spotify

There are some really fun tracks here, I dig the low-stakes dancefloor approach (kinda like Four Tet's Percussions alias, which I like more than any recent Four Tet record).

Reminds me of Daphni too

Really enjoyable record