Woodkid feat. Lykke Li - Never Let You Down
Woodkid has teamed up with Lykke Li for "Never Let You Down", a song that will appear on the Insurgent soundtrack, which will be released March 17, 2015
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Nicolas Jaar Creates Soundtrack to Sergei Parajanov's "The Color of Pomegranates" 1969
Mysterious are the ways of God especially when it comes to reveal a modern artist doing a cover work on another talent that passed away many years ago. The acclaimed New York-based musician Nicolas Jaar has uploaded a Soviet avant-garde film from 1969, called “The Color Of Pomegranates”, created by surrealistic director Sergei Parajanov (1924-1990) to Youtube along with his own original score. “The Color Of Pomegranates” is a biography of the Armenian ashug Sayat-Nova (King of Song) that attempts to reveal the poet's life visually and poetically rather than literally. Nicolas Jaar leveled up the whole story to the new surreal level by reworking the orginal sound with his soundtrack 'Pomegranates' (2015).BUT Nicolas is not the first to take over the original score, famous (by Matrix OST) musicians Juno Reactor did this a year ago. So get your extra hour of awesome visual and sound overdose here and below
“A 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!”
Video was removed from the web, the only episode found:
““I was still living at my childhood home when I finished Pomegranates. On March 1st, I arrived in my new home and it was completely empty except for a baby tree. The owner was there to greet me and he asked me if I wanted to keep the baby tree because he had nowhere to put it and no one to give it to. I agreed to keep it and take care of it.
Before he left I asked him what kind of tree it was. He told me it’s a pomegranate tree. He had no idea I had just put this out!”
“Pomegranates”, EP, 2015
Find album “Pomegranates” LP details here or stream it from Spotify
Siska - Unconditional Rebel or the video shot with a 1000FPS in 5 sec
The 3.5-minute music video below was captured in a span of 5 seconds. French filmmaker Guillaume Panariello tells us he did this “shortest shoot ever” using a Phantom 4K camera snapping 1000 frames per second. When slowed down, those 5 seconds of real time turn into three-and-a-half minutes of slow-mo craziness. The song is “Unconditional Rebel” by Siska
Citizens!'s - Lighten Up
Citizens!’s latest entertaining single, “Lighten Up,” has been out for nearly a month now, but here receives some extra promo courtesy of a fresh video that coincides with Cesare’s impressive remix of the track. Cesare is a Kitsune Maison label mate of the London quartet, as the re-up no doubt came out to the liking of the group. The Ernest Desumbila visual is just as fun-filled as the audio, with it featuring a pair of female dancers in a semi-animated setting. The delivery comes as Citizens! is expected to release their sophomore studio album this spring
Equateur - Cheval Noir
French based electronic music producer Equateur released their new music video performing "Cheval Noir" from The Lava EP available on iTunes. Video is produced by RODS and directed by Kadavr Exquis on Nouvelle Wave label
Danton Eeprom - Kissing In Traffic
Does the world need another EP made for people to dance to at 3am? Probably not. Especially if you look at it the way Danton Eeprom does. “I like my club tunes, I make no bones about it, but my idea of a good dancefloor tune has evolved dramatically over the years to the point I can't be sure it makes any sense to anyone else but me anymore.” His new track Kissing in Traffic brings bouncing, EQ'd bass lines in and out of earshot while a gentle 120 bpm rhythm wiles away, accentuated by melodic top line hooks daydreaming through the tapestry. "Kissing In Traffic" is a postcard written and sent to himself the last time he visited that place so he could look at it when it all becomes a bit much; a true memento, and a genuine Souvenir.
Or check the different version on Souvenir's Music label Soundcloud:
Sia - Elastic Heart feat. Shia LaBeouf & Maddie Ziegler
Let us start the year with this beautiful piece of choreography conducted by talented young Maddie Ziegler (see Sia's previous music video with Maddie) and "not famous anymore" actor Shia LaBeouf. No doubts this will be our selection for Top 2015 this December.
P.s. Some pathetic people find this video inappropriate. I am not sure if they know ballet/dancing world very well.
"The Australian pop singer Sia felt forced to apologise promptly, tweeting: “I apologize to those who feel triggered by #ElasticHeart My intention was to create some emotional content, not to upset anybody." But other voices have demanded caution when making such grave accusations, with Barbara Ellen from the Guardian wondering: “Can't a grown man and a young girl produce art with edge and beauty of any kind without a squalid sexual subtext instantly being read into it?"
Truth is in the eye of the beholder.