Nicolas Jaar - Angles

Nicolas Jaar
Marks & Angles
Circus Company

Nicolas Jaar's very first EP, released in 2008, suggested the arrival of a rare talent: it was recorded when he was just 17, for one thing, and its acoustic sounds and unconventional structures were refreshingly unsullied by club music's business-as-usual habits. Profiling him last fall, Resident Advisor praised the young producer's "sophisticated," jazz-influenced vision of dance music, one that he's gone on to explore across further releases for W+L, his own Clown & Sunset label, and a remix for Ellen Allien. After his contributions to last year's Snuggle & Slap compilation, Nicolas Jaar's Marks & Angles EP marks his debut release on Circus Company, as well as another bold step forward for the musician himself. All three tracks are rooted in house music, but Jaar's rich acoustic textures and elastic timekeeping lead to a far more personal place. They explore strange emotional registers, a commingling of melancholy and joy in a shadowy slow dance. "Marks" is a shuffling, late-night number that's too idiosyncratic to be reduced to its influences; a dub blues for organ and synthesizer blossoms into a piano's modal jazz solo, all overlaid with Jaar's haunted vocals. "Angles" stretches guitar strings like taffy through a forest of finger snaps and slow-motion electro shudder, with a cycling chorus teasing out medieval melodies. "Materials" is quicker of spirit, with a rippling pulse played out on muted jazz drums, shuttling between blocked piano chords and silvery oscillators and weaving an irresistible groove. It's beautiful, unexpected and absorbing musicand there's nothing else out there that sounds like it

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• Marks & Angles
• Circus Company
• Wolf & Lamb
• Clown & Sunset

[kraenk12]

the elvis presley of electronical music

[Teleport3]

awesume! jaar did it again! :)

[ssstammering]

So perfect it almost ruins itself.

Almost.

i love this track

[nodo281295]

awesoome

[ArcadePerfect]

"The angels only fly because because they treat themselves lightly"

Alan Watts.

:D*

[SeannyBlack]

bought his album yesterday and now im mad cuz this song isnt on it :(

great song!!

(the album is awesome anyway ;)

[requiemfadream]

i get it in a way that u cant imagine! :)))

for me .. is angels!

[Nicolai0Nerland]

@ElectronicAvalange MYou obviously have no idea who to be angry at, and your statement is bigoted and close-minded. I suggest you to take an econmy class, and look at the flaws of capitalism before you look down on a country and it's membership in an already flawed and corrupt union.

[Nicolai0Nerland]

COMMUNISM AND MINIMALISM?? MARRY ME

[ZickZackKlickKlack]

@requiemfadream

you dont get it mate

[Heroication]

♥ !

[pelik5959]

@lukso123 He was 17 ...