Nicolas Jaar – Live In The Hague (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:12 minutes | 473 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rewire
In a new series of recordings, Rewire unearths projects from previous editions of the festival, often focusing on commissioned works and special collaborations. For the first release of this series, we highlight acclaimed Chilean-American artist Nicolás Jaar and his second performance at Rewire 2019. Under the name Nicolás Jaar & Group, an ensemble of musicians performed a commissioned work by Jaar for piano, saxophone, duduk, cello, electronics and percussion instruments that were custom-built for the performance.
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Nicolas Jaar – Telas (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:40 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Other People
The last experience that this writer had of Nicolas Jaar’s glitchy soundscapes was through his 2011 debut album Space Is Only Noise. Nine years and five discs on, as well as other releases under the Against All Logic alias, not much has changed. However, Jaar’s work remains distinctly strange yet compelling on Telas and rarely lurches into formless noodling. This disc, his second in 2020 after this spring’s Cenizas, is divided into four tracks, each about a quarter of an hour long, incorporating minimalist and abstract sounds, woven and entangled to produce a laidback conceptual soundtrack that won’t have anyone working up a hip-swinging sweat but that is far more than atmospheric aural wallpaper.
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