Nicolas Jaar

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Nicolas Jaar live at the Rex Club in Paris (2011)

Nicolas Jaar (born January 10, 1990 in New York ) is a Chilean - American musician .

Life

Nicolas Jaar is the son of the visual artist Alfredo Jaar . He spent his childhood in Chile. He returned to New York as a teenager.

In 2004 Jaar began to mix electronic music under the influence of the works of Mulatu Astatke and Erik Satie . He was particularly influenced by the album Thé au Harem d'Archimède by the German techno DJ Ricardo Villalobos . In addition, Jaar names influences such as Ethiopian jazz, hip-hop and trip-hop as well as references to French culture with which he came into contact through his French mother. At the age of 17 he made his debut on the Wolf and Lamb label with the EP The Student . In 2009 Jaar founded his own label Clown and Sunset.

He released his debut album Space Is Only Noise in January 2011. It was highly praised by fans and critics, including the industry magazine Pitchfork rated 8.4 out of 10 as “Best New Music”, and The Guardian gave it four out of five stars. Various trendy websites and magazines voted the album “Album of the Year”, for example Resident Advisor, Mixmag, Crack Mag, and No. # 2 at DJ Mag. For the tour for the album, Jaar founded a band whose sounds he uses the sounds from his laptop and combined with his own singing. The band consists of his former classmates Will Epstein on saxophone and piano, Dave Harrington (with whom Jaar also forms the Duo Darkside) on guitar and Ian Sim on drums.

In 2015, Jaar produced the soundtrack for the French drama Dheepan , which is due to be released that same year. In addition, Nicolas Jaar uploaded the experimental film The Colors of Pomegranates from 1969 to the video platform YouTube and backed it up with his specially produced soundtrack consisting of 20 instrumental pieces. Jaar offers the soundtrack for free download under the title Pomegranates .

Jaar studied comparative literature at Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island .

Discography

Chart positions
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Albums
Sirens
  DE 66 10/21/2016 (1 week)
  CH 92 10/09/2016 (1 week)

Under his own name

Albums

  • 2011: Space Is Only Noise
  • 2016: Sirens
  • 2016: Nymphs
  • 2020: Telas

Singles and EPs

  • 2008: The Student
  • 2010: Russian Dolls
  • 2010: Marks & Angles
  • 2010: Time for Us / Mi mujer
  • 2010: Love You Gotta Lose Again
  • 2011: Nico's Bluewave Edits
  • 2011: Don't Break My Love
  • 2015: Nymphs II
  • 2015: Nymphs III

Soundtrack

As part of Darkside

album

  • 2013: Psychic

EP

  • 2011: Darkside EP

As AAL (Against All Logic)

  • 2012-2017
  • 2017-2019

Web links

Commons : Nicolas Jaar  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1103 on July 22, 2012.
  2. ↑ Cf. - ( Memento of the original dated September 6, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on July 22, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.electronicbeats.net
  3. ↑ Cf. Violaine Schütz: Nicolas Jaar , in: Redux, No. 38, August 2011.
  4. ↑ See http://www.ibiza-voice.com/story/news/3294 on July 22, 2012.
  5. ↑ Nicolas Jaar publishes soundtrack for "The Color Of Pomegranates". In: Test game website . February 23, 2015, accessed June 25, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Twitter message from Nicolas Jaar. In: Nicolas Jaar's official Twitter account . June 24, 2015, accessed June 25, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Chart sources: DE CH
  8. ↑ Nicolas Jaar - Nymphs II. In: Groove Online . May 11, 2015, accessed June 26, 2015 .
  9. ↑ AAL (Against All Logic): 2012 - 2017 Album Review | Pitchfork. Accessed April 6, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Review: Against All Logic - 2017 - 2019. Accessed February 7, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Jaar, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean-American musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH New York , United States