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• Nicholas Jaar released his new album, “Pomegranates,” for free
• Beatport announce embed player
• Chance The Rapper to star in a murder mystery
Nicholas Jaar released his new album, “Pomegranates,” for free
Though many were excited by the mere announcement that he had a new 12″ on the way, it looks like Nicolas Jaar has just released his new album for free online.
The new LP, titled Pomegranates, was adapted from Jaar’s re-scoring of the Soviet film The Color Of Pomegranateswhich he released earlier this year, however he is quick to note in the downloaded materials that this version of the album does not synch up with the movie.
The download comes with some photographs, a lengthy note from Jaar talking about the album, and a pictures of record labels that strongly hint at a future vinyl release. Interestingly, Jaar explains in his note that most of this music was completed before he ever saw the film, but the two became tied together once he discovered it. Read that excerpt below:
A the beginning of 2015 my friend Milo heard some of these songs and told me about the film. I watched it and was dumbfounded. I felt the aesthetic made complete sense with the strange themes I had been obsessed with over the past couple of years. I was curious to see what my songs sounded like when synced with the images, which turned into a 2-day bender where I soundtracked the entire film, creating a weird collage of the ambient music I had made over the last 2 years.
The film gave me a structure to follow and themes to stick to. It gave clarity to this music that was made mostly out of and through chaos. It also gave me the balls to put it out… I wanted to do some screenings but the guy who owns the rights to the film only wants the original version of the movie out there. I can’t blame him, I’m sure Paradjanov wouldn’t want some kid in NY pissing all over his masterpiece and calling it a soundtrack! I’ve listened to it a couple of times without watching the movie and I think it stands on its own. Or at least I hope it can!
Finally, click the link below to download Nicolas Jaar’s new album:
If you’re at a computer, here’s a DL for my album “Pomegranates” http://t.co/5HtoSw0gKF
— Nicolas Jaar (@nicolas___jaar) June 24, 2015
(via FACT)
Beatport announce embed player
Beatport has unveiled a new embeddable streaming platform that will compensate artists for plays.
The new service is meant to complete with SoundCloud, according to a profile in Billboard. Beatport’s new player is available for all the tracks they sell, and will be embeddable across all sorts of websites and players. Rights holders and artists will be paid for every single stream, though the exact amount is unknown at this time. And unlike Spotify’s embed function, it won’t require an account to play.
You can see an example of the player below.
“Supporting artists has been a core value at Beatport since day one,” says Beatport’s Clark Warner. “Our embeddable streaming music player not only helps artists promote their music by making it available wherever their fans live online, but we are also taking the necessary steps to pay rights holders for each listen so artists get paid.”
Chance The Rapper to star in a murder mystery
Chance the Rapper is going to star in a forthcoming mystery movie called Slice, which traces the aftermath of a pizza delivery driver’s murder. The film is set to come out next year, and according to Complex it will be directed by Austin Vesely, who also directed Surf’s “Sunday Candy” video.
Chance the Rapper’s last starring role was in the short film Mr. Happy, which came out in March.
(via Pitchfork)
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