And that was a surprise. Other surprises include the lack of sampling. Some of them were more advanced than me. It was really humbling and fun. Can we protest through instrumental music, for example? And how would you do that? We were like how would you even — or why would we — put that into music? How can it sound both noisy and minimal, mournful and alive?
Jaar, a Chilean American who grew up between Santiago and New York City, appears to be feeling a heightened sense of geopolitical dread.
Both countries are in states of violent unrest, albeit of different forms— riots and uprisings across Chile, a slow and ugly unraveling in the U. His father, the activist-artist Alfredo Jaar , looms in his work. His debut Space Is Only Noise introduced listeners to his disruptive spirit and global tastes. Sirens , his ambient-leaning follow-up, conceived partly in reaction to the rise of Donald Trump, illuminated the cyclical nature of power and the illusion of democracy.
Can we get out of this abstract bubble? Go there and tell others. The one you like, tell a nice story. Nico : Once upon a time there was a little bird that was flying. And there, there was a man with a very big gun and did like this gunshot. Against All Logic , displays yet another side of Jaar. The tracks are hedonistic, transcendent, and eerily for Jaar coherent. When building a playlist, the curator always tries to find the center of an artist or a genre.
There are strains of ideas and sounds that appear and reappear, but putting a finger on one feels impossibly reductive. The journey may be bumpy, but it also includes some of the most important and idiosyncratic music created this decade. The Dowsers is the first magazine about playlists, brought to you by top artists, writers and DJs.
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