NICOLAS JAAR Cenizas LP

Na znakomitym tegorocznym wydawnictwie Nicolas Jaar odchodzi od tanecznej formuły Against All Logic, szukając dla swojej niezwykłej muzycznej wyobraźni formy pojemniejszej i tonacji bardziej refleksyjnej. „Cenizas” to płyta nasycona emocjami, a zarazem niezwykle subtelna i pomimo mrocznej powierzchowności, brzmieniowo bardzo bogata: słychać tu ambient, future jazz i psychodelię, są niemal soundtrackowe pejzaże, ale i fragmenty piosenkowe. Fantazja Jaara nie zna jednak ograniczeń i trudno jego kompozycje jednoznacznie szufladkować: od lat to raczej chilijsko- nowojorski producent jest jednym z tych, którzy wyznaczają w muzyce nowe kierunki.

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NICOLAS JAAR is a Chilean sound maker born in 1990. He is known in the club world for his various dance 12 EPs and remixes he put out from 2008 to 2011. Since his first full length (SPACE IS ONLY NOISE, 2011), he has embarked in multiple divergent path.
For the last 7 years, he has released a large volume of recordings through his label OTHER PEOPLE (including music by LYDIA LUNCH, WILLIAM BASINSKI, PATRICK HIGGINS, DJ SLUGO, LUCRETIA DALT, PIERRE BASTIEN & TOMAGA, VTGNIKE and others).
In 2015, Nicolas scored DHEEPAN by director JACQUES AUDIARD (winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2015).
In 2016, Jaar launched THE NETWORK, a web of 111 fictional radio stations done in collaboration with artists JENA MYUNG and MAZIYAR PAHLEVAN. A batch of these mixes was aired on NTS radio and is archived here: (https://bit.ly/35PwrHu). In 2017, THE NETWORK became a book, published by PRINTED MATTER In NY.
In the spring of 2019, Jaar was commissioned for a 9 hour improvisation in the OUDE KERK CHURCH in Amsterdam which he performed alongside two organists and a dozen surround speakers pointed at the ceiling of the church.
Nicolas is currently curating a residency for sound artists in the West Bank that takes place in a 130 year-old converted food storage shack in Bethlehem (within the DAR YUSUF NASRI JACIR FOR ART AND RESEARCH .) Residents so far include composer SEBASTIAN JATZ RAWICZ and researcher and artist ROLANDO HERNANDEZ.
In the fall of 2019, he presented INCOMPREHENSIBLE SUN, a sound and light installation in a 200-meter-long ex-military shooting range in Zaandam (The Netherlands) and RETAINING THE ENERGY, BUT LOSING THE IMAGE alongside artist VINCENT DE BELLEVAL which consisted of 10 large rotating parabolic reflectors that capture and emit hyper-focalized surround sound.
For the first SHARJAH ARCHITECTURE TRIENNALE (curated by ADRIAN LAHOUD IN 2019) Nicolas performed a piece for 16 buried speakers in the desert near the MLEIHA ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTRE.
Nicolas has collaborated with artist LYDIA OURAHMANE (MUSIC FOR TWO SEAS, Stromboli), FKA TWIGS (MAGDALENE), and PATRICK HIGGINS under the name AEAEA. 
He is also a current member of improvisational ensemble ¡MIERCOLES! alongside dancer and choreographer STEPHANIE JANAINA, founding member of research collective SHOCK FOREST GROUP, and half of the band DARKSIDE

8/10 Resident Advisor - Cenizas is an LP of significant gravitas from an artist with among the largest and most engaged followings in electronic music

8.0 Pitchfork - Given all the technical ground Cenizas covers, Jarr is an impressively meticulous guide. Every pluck, ping, buzz, scratch, and whistle is intentional, a bump in the tunnel as you slide down the rabbit hole

9/10 Loud & Quiet - Jaar's music has always been deeply preoccupied with atmosphere, and Cenizas is a deeply atmospheric album. It sounds like a void. As you listen, you feel like you could fall into it and never find your way out. In that way, these 54 minutes feel like a sequel to Jaar's first hit, Space is Only Noise, set 5,000 years in the future. He told us then. He's showing us now.

A1 Vanish 3:11
A2 Menysid 3:58
A3 Cenizas 4:39
A4 Agosto 2:47
A5 Gocce 3:56
A6 Mud 7:13
A7 Vacíar 2:17
B1 Sunder 3:05
B2 Hello, Chain 5:26
B3 Rubble 3:01
B4 Garden 5:25
B5 Xerox 3:19
B6 Faith Made Of Silk 5:26