Pomegranates
Nicolas Jaar
Pomegranates
Boomkat Product Review:
A first physical release at last for this album inspired by Sergei Parajanov’s Armenian masterpiece The Colour Of Pomegranates — even if some of the music was composed before Jaar watched it.
"Already for Jaar a private emblem of change and upheaval, the fruit is broken open in the film: its juice seeps into a cloth, like blood, making the shape of ancient Armenia on a map. In hundreds of such moments of cultural and poetic saturation (including numerous different associations for the pomegranate), and in the film’s biographical, episodic form, Jaar found confluent ground for intimate, teeming musical reflections about his own life and Palestinian-Chilean heritage. “It 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.”
‘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, in the language of lyricism, freedom, and emotional resonance held in common by his many paths and projects."
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Boomkat Product Review:
A first physical release at last for this album inspired by Sergei Parajanov’s Armenian masterpiece The Colour Of Pomegranates — even if some of the music was composed before Jaar watched it.
"Already for Jaar a private emblem of change and upheaval, the fruit is broken open in the film: its juice seeps into a cloth, like blood, making the shape of ancient Armenia on a map. In hundreds of such moments of cultural and poetic saturation (including numerous different associations for the pomegranate), and in the film’s biographical, episodic form, Jaar found confluent ground for intimate, teeming musical reflections about his own life and Palestinian-Chilean heritage. “It 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.”
‘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, in the language of lyricism, freedom, and emotional resonance held in common by his many paths and projects."
Boomkat Product Review:
A first physical release at last for this album inspired by Sergei Parajanov’s Armenian masterpiece The Colour Of Pomegranates — even if some of the music was composed before Jaar watched it.
"Already for Jaar a private emblem of change and upheaval, the fruit is broken open in the film: its juice seeps into a cloth, like blood, making the shape of ancient Armenia on a map. In hundreds of such moments of cultural and poetic saturation (including numerous different associations for the pomegranate), and in the film’s biographical, episodic form, Jaar found confluent ground for intimate, teeming musical reflections about his own life and Palestinian-Chilean heritage. “It 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.”
‘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, in the language of lyricism, freedom, and emotional resonance held in common by his many paths and projects."
Boomkat Product Review:
A first physical release at last for this album inspired by Sergei Parajanov’s Armenian masterpiece The Colour Of Pomegranates — even if some of the music was composed before Jaar watched it.
"Already for Jaar a private emblem of change and upheaval, the fruit is broken open in the film: its juice seeps into a cloth, like blood, making the shape of ancient Armenia on a map. In hundreds of such moments of cultural and poetic saturation (including numerous different associations for the pomegranate), and in the film’s biographical, episodic form, Jaar found confluent ground for intimate, teeming musical reflections about his own life and Palestinian-Chilean heritage. “It 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.”
‘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, in the language of lyricism, freedom, and emotional resonance held in common by his many paths and projects."
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Boomkat Product Review:
A first physical release at last for this album inspired by Sergei Parajanov’s Armenian masterpiece The Colour Of Pomegranates — even if some of the music was composed before Jaar watched it.
"Already for Jaar a private emblem of change and upheaval, the fruit is broken open in the film: its juice seeps into a cloth, like blood, making the shape of ancient Armenia on a map. In hundreds of such moments of cultural and poetic saturation (including numerous different associations for the pomegranate), and in the film’s biographical, episodic form, Jaar found confluent ground for intimate, teeming musical reflections about his own life and Palestinian-Chilean heritage. “It 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.”
‘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, in the language of lyricism, freedom, and emotional resonance held in common by his many paths and projects."
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