Pomegranates
Nicolás Jaar's alternative soundtrack to Sergei Parajanov's 1969 film The Color of Pomegranates.

Pomegranates

Nicolas Jaar

€ 34,95
  • LP
Label
Other People
Expected release
5 December 2025
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Description

It's been 10 years since Pomegranates - Nicolás Jaar's unofficial/alternative soundtrack to Sergei Parajanov's 1969 film The Color of Pomegranates - was first released, and to highlight this occasion we are reissuing the album on vinyl, with the first edition (a collaboration with the label Mana) having long been out of print.

Longer and slower-releasing than his other albums, Pomegranates often parallels the cinematic epic on which it’s based, with ideas pursued over long timelines and across dark landscapes, assembling elements and moods from the aesthetic and folkloric landscapes of Armenia. Jaar’s identity is perceived within this, folding in his heritage as Palestinian and Chilean as he attempts to build a musical architecture outwards that frames as much of the mess and sprawl of life as possible; using a language that investigates the movement and fluctuation of his own artistic career and character similarly to the film’s tracing of the coming of age of the young poet, Sayat-Nova.

At times, Pomegranates feels profoundly intimate, as though looking through the archive of a friend’s music and discovering the accent and common currency that lives within each of these tracks. Much of Jaar’s most elegant and touching melodic work is nestled here, its power residing in its simplicity and willingness to speak to the heart and not the mind of the listener.

In the text document included in the first freely distributed version of the album in 2015, Jaar writes that the album was conceived during a moment of change, and that the pomegranate became an icon that heralded that passage of time. The physical publication of Pomegranates closes one door whilst opening another, keeping promises and marking a significant point in the career of an artist who restlessly reinvents himself, with a document that illustrates a common language of lyricism, freedom, and emotional resonance linking his many paths and projects.

Tracklist

A

  • 1.Garden Of Eden
  • 2.Construction
  • 3.Pass The Time
  • 4.Survival

B

  • 1.The Fool And His Harem
  • 2.Being And Nothingness
  • 3.Near Death
  • 4.Beasts Of This Earth

C

  • 1.Fall Into Time
  • 2.Folie À Deux
  • 3.Screams At The Edge Of Down
  • 4.Divorce
  • 5.Three Windows
  • 6.Touristas

D

  • 1.Shame
  • 2.Tower Of Sin
  • 3.Kapital
  • 4.Volver
  • 5.Spirit
  • 6.Muse

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