Earlier this year, electronic composer (and DARKSIDE member) Nicolas Jaar composed a companion score to the 1969 Soviet film The Colour of Pomegranates. Last night in a tweet, he made the score available for download.
As Jaar says in a note that accompanies the .zip file, he began work on this music before having even heard of The Colour of Pomegranate. “I was making music in my living room when a huge water bug started dancing on top of some cables on the floor,” he says. “Instead of killing it, I decided to make music for it. I called the track ‘Garden of Eden’ because I slowly started seeing the little creature as my friend and helper, and my studio as a garden.” Other tracks were recorded as beats for rappers, TV show scores, and ways to pass time while Jaar was living at home with his parents. After seeing the film on a friend’s recommendation, he recognized that its thematic concerns synced perfectly with the music he’d been composing. Thus, Pomegranates.
Click below to give the album a listen.
If you’re at a computer, here’s a DL for my album “Pomegranates” http://t.co/5HtoSw0gKF
— Nicolas Jaar (@nicolas___jaar) June 24, 2015
Pomegranates track list
“Garden of Eden”
“Construction”
“Pass the Time”
“Survival”
“The Fool and His Harem”
“Nothingness”
“Near Death”
“Beasts of This Earth”
“Fall Into Time”
“Folie à Deux”
“Screams at the Edge of Dawn”
“Divorce”
“Three Windows”
“Tourists”
“Shame”
“Tower of Sin”
“Club Kapital”
“Volver”
“Spirit”
“Muse”
(via Pitchfork)
