Nicolas Jaar shares alternative version of ‘Pomegranates’ OST

Nicolas Jaar has shared an alternative version of his soundtrack to ‘The Colour of Pomegranates’.

Jaar took to his Twitter account yesterday to post another score for the 1969 avant-garde Soviet film by Sergei Parajanov. In February this year, Jaar shared his first version of the soundtrack, which has since been taken down from the Other People (Jaar’s label) site.

A note with the file explains that the music was created before he saw the film, with many of the compositions created for various other projects:

“At 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!”

Click here to download the new version of Jaar’s ‘Pomegranates’ OST.