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olas Jaar has graduated-- at least from the trappings of any young electronic music producer (his graduation from Brown University is 18 months away). Four years after his debut on the Brooklyn label Wolf + Lamb, and the much lauded follow up 'Time for Us', whose glacial slow-jam take on house sent journalists scrambling for adjectives, the 20 year old New Yorker by way of Chile returns to Circus Company with Space is Only Noise, an uncompromising manifesto on traces of the past, love lost, and specters of the future. 

Having previously contributed to the catalog twice with his 'Marks and Angels' EP as well as the sublime 'Your Waltz' on the Snuggle and Slap compilation, we are delighted to present his first foray into the realm of the long player. 

Jaar has made it quite apparent over the course of his nascent catalog and increasingly sought after live sets that challenge is an intrinsic part of his creative discourse. Few are the producers of any age with the cohones to ride a sub-100-bpm tempo at peak time in the techno Mecca of Berlin, and fewer still are those who receive an ecstatic hands-in-the-air response for their precocious efforts. It is precisely this sense of risk which elevates Space is Only Noise beyond the realm of valiant first effort or crossover dance music oddity. Those looking to wade through the sea of Jaar’s potential influences will quickly find themselves in the deep waters of golden age Factory records, home spun digitalism of Mille Plateaux, Endtroducing era DJ Shadow and Eric Satie.

Jaar gently coaxes his listener into the experience from the opening sounds of rolling waves on 'Être', but quickly transitions into the sophisticated percussion and meandering melodies that characterise his sound. Jaar seeks, and often finds, beauty in melancholy on the first few tracks of the album. As the album begins to accelerate with 'Too Many Kids Finding Rain In The Dust', Jaar confronts us with the often forgotten reality that our sadness is not mutually exclusive from the dance floor.

Suddenly, on 'Keep Me There', Jaar’s voice appears over the delicious, rumbling melody. "We're in a really bad bed, right?" he remarks. "Mm-- it's not really a bed. It's like a balloon" responds a sultry female voice as they both crumble away in laughter. Though your hips stir to the relentless bassline and the sexiness of the voices, your heart is jolted out of its luxurious malaise when horns erupts seconds later. 

"How can you talk about a landscape without showing the sky and the earth?" a voice asks, translating from the French on 'Être'. So Jaar concludes, revisiting the same track to end the album. Complete landscapes such as these are only realised in contrast- the indulgent against the reserved, the sky against the earth; lightness and darkness. 

Space Is Only Noise is a tour de force with few modern equals, and a great sign of things to come from one of electronic music’s most exciting producers. 


Nicolas Jaar - Almost Fell

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Nino Rota-Toccata for Bassoon and Piano

Jayden Lee, Flute
Olivier Hébert-Bouchard, Piano
Tatyana Palmer, Piano
Julia Zalkovic, Violin

Collaboration with the McGill University Sound Recording Department
Recording Engineer: ShuoRan Zhou
Mixing Engineer: ShuoRan Zhou

Recorded in Pollack Hall, Redpath Hall, and Tanna Schulich Hall of McGill University in Montréal, QC, Canada

JS Bach- Partita in A Minor
Jean Coulthard- Lyric Sonatina
Nino Rota- Trio for Flute, Violin, and Piano
C.M. Widor- Suite for Flute and Piano

Trio For Flute, Violin, And Piano - I. Allegro Ma Non Troppo

Serenade No. 1 (Heinrich Sutermeister, 1910-1995)
Marsch
Lied
Ländler
Burt Hara, clarinet; Eric Just (fellow), clarinet; Kevin Cobb, trumpet; Michael Kroth, bassoon

Trio for flute, violin and piano (Nino Rota, 1911-1979)
Allegra ma non troppo
Andante sostenuto
Allegro vivace con spirito
Alice Date, flute; Ellen dePasquale, violin; Susan Grace, piano

Piano Quintet in F minor (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Molto moderato quasi lento; Allegro
Lento, con molto sentiment
Allegro non troppo ma con fuoco
John Novacek, piano; Andrew Wan, violin; Stefan Hersh, violin; Toby Appel, viola; Bion Tsang, cello

Rota - Trio for flute, violin, piano - Andante sostenuto

The Music You Need

The Quintessence

Sonata for clarinet and piano . Nino Rota
II. Andante quasi Adagio
Cecilio Vilar, clarinet
María Abad, piano

Nino Rota . Sonata for clarinet and piano

A Sound Heart

Reflections of God

Duo Sonomorphose ; Clarinette/clarinette basse : Annelise Clément ; Piano : Tatyana Vitkovskaya ; Enregistrement le 31 mai 2024 au Kremlin-Bicêtre (94) ; Ingénieur du son : Alban Sautour

Nino Rota - Sonata in D pour clarinette en la et piano (1945) - Extrait Mouvement III. Allegro Scorrevole

XONGZ አስቀያሚ ጡብ

alone for this

Blues Blood

MOSHPIT

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GSTRPD

Pararbolidolia

baumreidolie

The King's Speech

Speaking Unto Nations (Beethoven Symphony no 7 - II )

Seeds Of Time

Perspicuity

Walk-A-Way

Celebration

Gridlock (Opus 8)

World Protection Blues

Mendelssohn Felix and Fanny

Mendelssohn-Hensel, F: String Quartet in E-Flat Major: III. Romanze

Sarabande

Keyboard Suite No. 4 in D Minor, HWV 437: III. Sarabande (Orch. Hale)

Quincy Jones's Finest Hour

Stormy Weather

Tasmin Little: Violin Showpieces

The Gadfly, Suite Op. 97a: No. 8 Romance (Arr. Atovmyan for Violin & Piano)

Schubert: String Quartets Nos. 14 "Death and the Maiden" & 13 "Rosamunde"

String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 "Death and the Maiden": I. Allegro

A walk through the fields of experimentation, no need for mainstream song structures here there is only...ice cream

A history of ice cream related corporate sabotage

Resilience: String Quartets by Prokofiev, Janáček, Golijov and Mendelssohn

String Quartet No. 6, Op. 80, MWV R 37: I. Allegro vivace assai

J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1, BWV 846-869 / Prelude & Fugue in C Major, BWV 846: I. Prelude

J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier I, Prelude & Fugue No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846: I. Prelude

Janáček & Ligeti: Quartets

String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata": I. Adagio con moto

Beethoven Around the World: Vienna, String Quartets Nos 7 & 8

Beethoven: String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1, "Razumovsky": I. Allegro

Prism II: Beethoven, Schnittke, Bach

V. Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo

Sweet Medicine - Abyss - 21 - Seahorses

Vinyl Digital - Release 2020

Sweet Medicine - Seahorses

Brahms: String Quartets, Nos. 1 & 3

Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 in B-Flat Major, Op. 67: II. Andante

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Silver Ladders

Mary Lattimore - Don't Look

String Quartet No. 1 "Kreutzer Sonata": I. Adagio con moto

Belcea Quartet