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 - ^tre

Fire Walk With Me (Twin Peaks Theme)- Angelo Badalamenti/Julee Cruise cover

A setting of Dorothy Parker for tenor and ensemble: romantic and serene

Lullaby

La Maison de Mon Rêve

Good Friday

Rest

Ring-A-Ring O' Roses

Apollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks

An Ending (Ascent) (Remastered 2019)

'ANTICHRIST' Original Soundtrack (LARS VON TRIER) Etched 12" (CSR272LP)

Cold Spring are proud to announce the first ever physical release of the soundtrack to Lars Von Trier's controversial film 'Antichrist'. Ten years after the film's initial release, the extreme, provocative performances from Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg in 'Antichrist' still have the power to shock, repulse and divide. 

The sound design by Kristian Eidnes Andersen with Lars Von Trier, was composed using only natural sounds and samples (including internal body recordings). Each element was recorded specifically for the film and overseen by Von Trier, including a brand new, sombre performance of Händel’s ‘Lascia Ch’io Pianga’, recorded in Kastelskirken church in Copenhagen, 2009.

Pressed onto heavyweight 180 gram vinyl with an etched B-Side. Housed in a heavy 350gsm card full colour sleeve featuring the original theatrical release artwork.

12" 'Eden Olive' Coloured Etched Vinyl (Ltd Ed 250 copies, via Cold Spring only)

12" Black Etched Vinyl

Award winning Danish composer Kristian Eidnes Andersen has produced music and sound design for films, television and documentaries for 30 years, notably working with Lars Von Trier on the films Antichrist, The House That Jack Built, Dancer In The Dark, Melancholia, and Nymphomaniac (Vol I & II). Kristian on IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253120/

ANTICHRIST: A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage, but nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

Nature Is Satan's Church. When nature turns evil, true terror awaits and chaos reigns.

Watch Antichrist trailer: https://youtu.be/LO-TNfPzh_k

Behind the scenes documentary ‘The sound and music of Antichrist’: https://youtu.be/-UTEVJHnxk0 

Track listing:

1. Intro
2. L’Ascia Ch’io Pianga Prologue
3. Train
4. Foetus
5. Attic
6. L’Ascia Ch’io Pianga Epilogue
7. Credits Part 1
8. Credits Part 2

Order via Cold Spring: http://store.coldspring.co.uk

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/antichrist-o-s-t-lars-von-trier-csr272lp

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“…the score feels like it was recorded in the bowels of hell and wants to break out. It’s an interesting release and the pressing is clear with an excellent focus on low frequencies, which makes for a fascinating listen” (Moviedrone: This Month’s Finest Film Soundtracks, September 2019 @ The Quietus)

“…a monster of a record…it certainly packs a punch. Andersen’s music here is rich, elemental and utterly terrifying. Heavy bass drones are smeared and slurred across the stereo spectrum. Quaking and crackling sounds will have you worrying for the integrity of your speakers… the un-music, the audiable, the hum of the world. Silence has never sounded so uncanny.” (The Quietus)

“The uneasy viewing is matched by a similarly thought-provoking soundtrack, meaning this new vinyl release feels fresh, necessary and exciting… something that’s curiously familiar and yet utterly, unsettlingly alien… a subtle, enveloping experience that’s perfect for all those late-night meditations on sex, death, myth and the endless, aching power of loss.” (Rue Morgue)

“Just like the film itself, Antichrist’s soundtrack is uncomfortable to listen to…The result is an ominous score that matches the sadomasochism that unveils itself onscreen; a thought-provoking soundscape of elements that have been meticulously layered and arranged to form something that has a sense of familiarity upon first listen for horror fanatics, but gradually reveals itself to be as unsettling and, perhaps, as polarising as the blood ejaculating visuals conjured from the mind of director/agitator Von Trier.” (Attack From Planet B)

'ANTICHRIST O.S.T.' (Lars Von Trier) - Lascia Ch'io Pianga Prologue

La Llorona

La Celestina

El Desierto

Nuit Classique

Einstein on the Beach, Knee Play 5

Cold Spring is the UK's premier record label / mailorder for: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Esoteric, Japanese Noise, Ritual, Power Electronics, Noise, Drone, Death Industrial, Neoclassical, Neofolk, Doom, Dark Soundtracks and Experimental music.

Cold Spring Records has primarily been a label since 1990, releasing such influential artists as Coil, Laibach, Psychic TV, Merzbow, MZ. 412, Z’EV, Skullflower and more.

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