Earlier this year, Nicolas Jaar created an alternate soundtrack to the 1969 avant-garde Soviet film The Colour of Pomegranates, which was directed by Sergei Parajanov. Today, as a surprise, he shared a download of that soundtrack as a stand-alone album.
The downloadable file includes the album, some artwork, and a lengthy note from Jaar detailing the album's origins. He explains that some of the music was created before he saw the film. "Garden of Eden", for example, was his soundtrack for a water bug he found in his living room. Some of it was intended for the A&E zombie show "The Returned", which he walked away from due to creative differences. "Survival" was originally intended for DJ Slugo's "Ghetto", and "Shame" is a rejected rap beat.
01 Garden of Eden
02 Construction
03 Pass the Time
04 Survival
05 The Fool and His Harem
06 Nothingness
07 Near Death
08 Beasts of this Earth
09 Fall Into Time
10 Folie à deux
11 Screams at the Edge of Dawn
12 Divorce
13 Three Windows
14 Tourists
15 Shame
16 Tower of Sin
17 Club Kapital
18 Volver
19 Spirit
20 Muse
