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nicolas jaar - pomegranates - mana - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Techno / Electro - Electronics

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
9. Fall Into Time
10. Folie a Deux
11. Screams At The Edge Of Dawn
12. Divorce
13. Three Windows
14. Tourists
15. Shame
16. Tower Of Sin
17. Club Kapital
18. Volver
19. Spirit
20. Muse

A first physical release at last for this album inspired by Sergei Parajanov’s Armenian masterpiece 'The Colour Of Pomegranates' !

Longer and slower-releasing than his other albums, Pomegranates often parallels the cinematic epic on which it’s based (Նռան գույնը), 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.