You Have Already Gone to the Other World is A Hawk and a Hacksaw's sixth studio album with the subtitle "Music inspired by Paradjanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors". It is a concept album which is written as a retrospective soundtrack for the 1964 movie Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Sergei Parajanov.
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| Released | April 2, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | Albuquerque, New Mexico at Sonido del Norte | |||
| Genre | Balkan Folk | |||
| Length | 57:40 | |||
| Label | L.M. Dupli-cation | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 74/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Pitchfork Media |   [3] |
| PopMatters | [4] |
| Drowned in Sound | [5] |
Background
editThe album is a concept album, it is arranged as a soundtrack for an already existing movie. Eight tracks are Eastern Europe folk songs from Hungary, Ukraine and Romania which are partly sampled from the movie and newly interpreted and arranged by Barnes and Trost. They also composed new music for the movie and played live along the movie in cinemas and theatres in 2012.
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Open It, Rose (Hungary)" | Hungarian traditional | 3:11 |
| 2. | "You Have Already Gone to the Other World" | Jeremy Barnes | 3:18 |
| 3. | "Witch's Theme" | Jeremy Barnes | 4:50 |
| 4. | "Wedding Theme (Ukraine)" | Ukrainian traditional | 3:29 |
| 5. | "Dance Melodies from Bihor County (Romania)" | Romanian traditional | 3:11 |
| 6. | "Hora Pa Bataie (Romania)" | Romanian traditional | 1:58 |
| 7. | "Nyisd Ki Rózsám (Hungary)" | Hungarian traditional | 3:49 |
| 8. | "Where No Horse Neighs and No Crow Flies" | Jeremy Barnes | 3:39 |
| 9. | "Învârtîta Din Blaj (Romania)" | Romanian traditional | 2:27 |
| 10. | "Horses of Fire Rachenitsa" | Jeremy Barnes | 4:55 |
| 11. | "Bury Me in the Clothes I Was Married In" | Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost | 2:32 |
| 12. | "Marikam, Marikam (Hungary)" | Hungarian traditional | 2:07 |
| 13. | "The Snow in Kryvorivnya" | Heather Trost | 2:58 |
| 14. | "Oh, Lord, Saint George, Bewitch Ivan, Make Him Mine" | Heather Trost | 5:13 |
| 15. | "Ivan and Marichka / The Sorcerer" | Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost | 5:42 |
| 16. | "On the River Cheremosh (Ukraine)" | Ukrainian traditional | 4:31 |
| Total length: | 57:40 | ||
Personnel
edit- Jeremy Barnes - accordion
- Heather Trost - violin
- John Dieterich - featuring on tracks 2,5 and 7
- John Dieterich, Griffin Rodriguez and Jeremy Barnes - recording
- Billy Joe Miller - album photography
Samples
edit- All traditional songs arranged by Barnes and Trost
- Samples from Sergei Parajanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors on tracks 1, 2, 4, 10 and 15:
- An unknown Hungarian[a] on track 14 "Oh, Lord, Saint George, Bewitch Ivan, Make Him Mine"
Notes
edit- ^ Cited in the booklet as "An unknown Hungarian (78)"
External links
editThe album - You Have Already Gone to the Other World
The movie - Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors
References
edit- ^ "Metascore - Generally favorable reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved Oct 24, 2013.
- ^ "Review by James Christopher Monger". Allmusic. Retrieved Oct 24, 2013.
- ^ "Review by Paul Thompson". PitchFork Media. April 11, 2013. Retrieved Oct 24, 2013.
- ^ "Review by Justin Pottle". PopMatters. Retrieved Oct 24, 2013.
- ^ "Review by Robert Cooke". DrownedInSound. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved Oct 24, 2013.
- ^ Sample from "Open It, Rose (Hungary)" at 01:16 in "Shadows of forgotten ancestors". Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ Sample from "Wedding Theme (Ukraine)" at 52:33 in "Shadows of forgotten ancestors". Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ Sample from "Ivan and Marichka / The Sorcerer" at 46:15 in "Shadows of forgotten ancestors". Retrieved 17 March 2016.