From a deluxe version of Nicolas Jaar’s 2016 album Sirens comes an excellent, previously unreleased track called “Coin in Nine Hands.” Beginning with a dark and sexy pulsating beat and spoken word lyrics, the song builds and shifts hauntingly across eight minutes—becoming an almost industrial ambient track. Unsurprisingly, considering it’s Jaar, this is a bold, deep cut.
Since graduating from college last year, musician Will Epstein has kept a low profile despite assembling an impressive resume. Born and raised in NYC’s TriBeCa neighborhood, Epstein went on to study electronic music at Brown University, the same alma mater as his frequent collaborator, the Chilean-American producer Nicolas Jaar, who he’s been friends with since the age of nine. Epstein, a multi-instrumental artist, has toured …
For “The Ghost,” the sixth track on their album Piramida, Denmark’s Efterklang tapped Spanish filmmaker Victor Carrey to create a puzzling video filled with individual accounts of death but together makes a unified story about a magical ancient necklace. They met the director at a film festival in Spain a month before they camped out in the desolate Norwegian town of Spitsbergen, where they explored …
