{"title":"Nicolas Jaar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicolás Jaar is a Chilean music producer, mixing engineer, and DJ based in New York. He is the owner and founder of his own music label.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith his unique blend of electronic and experimental sounds, Jaar has gained international recognition for his innovative approach to music production. His tracks are known for their intricate layers and atmospheric textures, creating an immersive experience for listeners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJaar's talent extends beyond the studio - he is also a skilled DJ who has performed at renowned venues and festivals around the world. His live sets are captivating, seamlessly blending different genres and creating a dynamic energy on the dancefloor.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cenizas","title":"Cenizas","description":"\u003cp\u003eNicolas Jaar with the assistance of Patrick Higgins returns with his most experimental work yet. 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By anyones estimations his arrival into the electronic music sphere has been unavoidable, receiving comparisons to Villalobos and AFX from The Guardian, providing one of Resident Advisor's most adventurous mixes to date and practically having Panorama Bar, Fabric and Bar25 eating out of his hands - all before he'd turned 20! His string of releases for the like-minded Wolf+Lamb Music and his own Clown \u0026amp; Sunset label besides remixes for Matthew Dear and Ellen Allien have defined his sound as purposefully slow, sensuous, and with a graceful maturity way beyond his years, all equally informed by HipHop and his Chilean heritage as he is House music and the furthest reaches of electronica. Like the relatively recent pop\/dance phenomena of Drag\/Witch House, electronic Cumbias and Dubstep, his music signifies a sea change towards exaggerated energy efficiency, dropping the tempo to up the groove and deftly filling the space left behind with supremely sophisticated musical decisions drawing further comparisons to everyone from his beloved Satie and Mulatu Astatke to DJ Shadow. 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A prolific artist with a wide palette of talents, Jaar spent his teenage years in dance music circles in New York City, where he now resides. In 2011, he released his debut album, the critically-acclaimed \u003ci\u003eSpace is Only Noise\u003c\/i\u003e, which was one of our Albums Of The Year. \u003cbr\u003eOn his 2011 debut album, there was a semblance of a slow club-music pulse, while last year’s \u003ci\u003ePomegranates \u003c\/i\u003econsisted of 20 glitched-out instrumental sketches. \u003ci\u003eSirens \u003c\/i\u003eis something else again: in just 40 minutes, you’ll hear Suicide’s louche techno-punk (albeit slathered in high-gloss electronica and French lounge jazz), Karl Hyde of Underworld’s dada chants, lashings of Talk Talk, and Phil Collins doing Chilean cumbia. The song structures constantly meander and fragment and often dissolve into silence and drone before reconstituting. You cannot fault Jaar’s preposterous ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qNGlyOe3OBc\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Other People","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50439584874827,"sku":"1003861","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50439586906443,"sku":"1000854","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5d204297-34da-4d32-af88-320457da8d3c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726954953"},{"product_id":"intiha","title":"Intiha","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAli Sethi\u003c\/strong\u003e, a singer, songwriter, and author, was captivated by Jaar's music long before they began collaborating. He had absorbed the sounds over a number of years, listening casually and taking in their subtleties in bars and rooftop parties across Lahore and London. \"It felt familiar to me, that sense of adventure you have when you hear his music, like a tale that teases you and plays with your expectations as it unfolds,\" says Sethi. \"In that sense it resembled the leisurely improvised ghazals and qawwalis I grew up hearing in Pakistan.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo when the two were finally introduced by Indian visual artist Somnath Bhatt, a regular Jaar collaborator who also handled the album's artwork, Sethi was well prepared. He began to sketch out voice notes using loops snipped from Jaar's acclaimed 2020 album \u003cem\u003eTelas\u003c\/em\u003e, improvising vocalizations and seductive Urdu poems over Jaar's weightless, time-bending productions. Jaar was astonished by the result; \"It was what \u003cem\u003eTelas\u003c\/em\u003e had been missing,\" he explains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eImprovisation has been important to the Chilean artist for many years. Before he had even started making electronic music, Jaar jammed on accordion with friends on the street in New York City. It's at the core of his practice, \"a moment in time,\" in his own words. \u003cem\u003eIntiha\u003c\/em\u003e, the opening track on the album, is the first they finished together, and positions Sethi's evocative phrases over Jaar's faded, metallic percussion. It's a perfect proof of concept, re-imagining the world of \u003cem\u003eTelas\u003c\/em\u003e and augmenting it with a sense of ancestral melancholy and giddy euphoria that's truly transformational.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSethi is best known globally for his attempts to revive the ghazal, an ancient poetic form that was taken by Sufi mystics from the Arab world to Persia and throughout the Indian subcontinent, where it captivated the royal court. It's been unfashionable in the last few decades, a mannered style associated with decadence, and Sethi offers it a new lease of life through his playfully revisionist covers and renditions. (His most popular single 'Pasoori' is a global phenomenon, one of the most Googled songs of 2022, with hundreds of millions of listeners tuning into its timeless message of forbidden love.) Sethi updates the ghazal form by using his years of training in raga music, lifting metaphors that reflect his journey as an out-of-place queer kid in Pakistan who became a US citizen and now lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Other People","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50498678849867,"sku":"2057456","price":34.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/OP073_ad70ce0b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727753289"},{"product_id":"piedras-1-and-2","title":"Piedras 1 and 2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe initial seed for this project was planted in 2020 when Nicolás Jaar wrote the song “Piedras” for a concert at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights in Santiago, Chile, which commemorates the victims of human rights violations during the military dictatorship led by Augusto Pinochet between 1973 and 1990. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 2022-2023 it took on a new form as a radio play entitled 'Archivos de Radio Piedras', which was shared on a dedicated Telegram channel. In 2024, the play was converted into a 24 channel installation at the University Museum of Mexico City (MUAC), where it was exhibited for 5 months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePiedras 1 and 2\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of the tracks featured within the play, all new music by Jaar, but partly presented within the play as the music of Salinas Hasbún (the name a composite homage to Jaar's grandmothers, Graciela Salinas and Miriam Hasbún).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe play follows two friends mourning the disappearance of Salinas Hasbún, a musician and writer who vanished in the early 2020s. Although they live in a future where technology is advanced, they resort to DIY radio methods because the anonymous group “Las 0cho” has launched a worldwide attack on undersea internet cables, causing a global internet blackout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe play's central theme revolves around the idea that truths, memories and identities speak from the cracks (“rasgaduras”), or the \"in-between\" spaces (\"en el entre\"). This concept is supported by the way much of the narration unfolds - in the liminal spaces between radio frequencies. The instability and transitory nature of a constantly shifting radio dial becomes not just a metaphor but the structure of the play itself. It’s in these moments of noise, static and interference that the deeper revelations of the story emerge. This disjointed, ever-changing medium mirrors the way memory and trauma operate within the play - non-linear, slipping through the gaps, found in fragments or ordinary moments, rather than direct transmissions of “official” historical accounts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis notion reaches its climax at the end of the narrative, when a text is discovered in which Salinas speaks of finding a new number in a small pond in a cave mentioned in the first episodes of the radio play. This pond, inside the “cochlea of the world”, is seen as a way to introduce real-life randomness to computation. 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Jaar’s identity is perceived within this, folding in his heritage as Palestinian and Chilean as he attempts to build a musical architecture outwards that frames as much of the mess and sprawl of life as possible; using a language that investigates the movement and fluctuation of his own artistic career and character similarly to the film’s tracing of the coming of age of the young poet, Sayat-Nova.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt times, \u003cem\u003ePomegranates\u003c\/em\u003e feels profoundly intimate, as though looking through the archive of a friend’s music and discovering the accent and common currency that lives within each of these tracks. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Other People","offers":[{"title":"2LP - Black","offer_id":55875233284427,"sku":"R0659-7461","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a3967531972_10.jpg?v=1762780411"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_5439df3e_thumbnail_4096_3396b689-2de1-402e-86b2-39fd15f09780.jpg?v=1726592860","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/nicolas-jaar.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}