Jaar, Nicolas - Pomegranates (180g 2LP Vinyl)

Jaar, Nicolas - Pomegranates (180g 2LP Vinyl)

Available to pre-order now, released December 5th. As this is an import we may have a week later.

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It's been 10 years since Pomegranates - Nicolás Jaar's unofficial / alternative soundtrack to Sergei Parajanov's 1969 film The Color of Pomegranates - was first released, and to highlight this occasion comes a reissue of the album on vinyl, with the first edition (a collaboration with the label Mana) having long been out of print.

Longer and slower-releasing than his other albums, Pomegranates often parallels the
cinematic epic on which it’s based, with ideas pursued over long timelines and
across dark landscapes, assembling elements and moods from the aesthetic and folkloric landscapes of Armenia. Jaar’s identity is perceived within this, folding in his heritage as Palestinian and Chilean as he attempts to build a musical architecture outwards that frames as much of the mess and sprawl of life as possible; using a language that investigates the movement and fluctuation of his own artistic career and character similarly to the film’s tracing of the coming of age of the young poet, Sayat-Nova.

At times, Pomegranates feels profoundly intimate, as though looking through the archive of a friend’s music and discovering the accent and common currency that lives within each of these tracks. Much of Jaar’s most elegant and touching melodic work is nestled here, its power residing in its simplicity and willingness to speak to the heart and not the mind of the listener.

Tracklisting:

LP1

1. Garden of Eden
2. Construction
3. Pass the Time
4. Survival
5. The Fool and His Harem
6. Nothingness
7. Near Death
8. Beasts of This Earth

LP2

1. Fall into Time
2. Folie à deux
3. Screams at the Edge of Dawn
4. Divorce
5. Three Windows
6. Tourists
7. Shame
8. Tower of Sin
9. Club Kapital
10. Volver
11. Spirit
12. Muse