Nicolás Jaar has announced the release ‘Cenizas’, his first LP since ‘Siren’ in 2016. ‘Cenizas’ will be out on March 27 his own imprint Other People.
He has released new single ‘Sunder’, a murky, crunching track in which a spoken chant echoes in and out, asking questions that are too big to be answered.
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Jaar has forged a singular path for himself through dance music. In 2019, he created a 9-hour improvisation in Amsterdam’s Oude Kerk Church, which he performed with two organists. He’s currently curating a residency for sound artists in the West Bank.
This year already, Jaar has released an EP featuring Lydia Lunch, FKA Twigs and Estado Unido under his Against All Logic alias. As Against All Logic, he’s also released a full-length LP ‘2017-2019’. He also contributed production for FKA Twigs’ recent album ‘Magdalene’.
Listen to ‘Sunder’ below, and preorder ‘Cenizas’ here.
Jemima Skala is Mixmag’s Weekend Editor. Follow her on Twitter
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