Nicolas Jaar - Telas (3SR)

July 17, 2020 - Other People

Assembling a crew of skilled technicians in their field, Nicolas Jaar has given us yet another deep cut. Usually deep cuts are uncovered in retrospect, but as Jaar moves further into the avant-garde with Telas, we find him making more and more demands of his listeners, while practicing circuitous modes of generosity in return (i.e. making an interactive website for this project which plays portions of the album depending on the user’s interaction). Jaar has described Telas as the counterweight to Cenizas, the latter being a deconstructed creation which occasionally swept its parts into hymnals; though Telas is built on less silence than Cenizas, the artist (in his description) has mistaken silence for absence and sound for structure—in short Telas gives us much the same of what Cenizas offered, with fewer orchestral moments but equal deconstruction. ⛰️