Pomegranates

Nicolas Jaar penned a soundtrack for the 1969 film by Sergej Paradzanov, The Color of Pomegranates (Other People, 2015). This is abstract electronic soundpainting. It begins borrowing the tragic overtones of Klaus Schulze's early cosmic symphonies, but soon decays into disjointed noise that leads to a tenderly romantic sequence of tinkling sounds. A glitchy loop mixed with a distant anemic wail further disintegrates the audio stream. Found voices are manipulated and embedded in diffracted echoes of ethnic music. Metallic industrial metronomy morphs into a hypnotic Caribbean-tinged dance. Then the tiny chaos for a while acquires a psychotic flavor, eventually interrupted .

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