SQÜRL, the duo of filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and composer Carter Logan, have introduced a brand new album, Music for Man Ray — “a sonic exploration of the cinematic works of Dadaist pioneer Man Ray.” It’s set to be launched on Could seventeenth by way of Sacred Bones.
For the previous eight years, Jarmusch and Logan have been offering the stay rating to the brief movies of Man Ray in venues internationally. This culminated with the one hundredth anniversary of Man Ray’s inaugural foray into filmmaking within the spring of 2023, when the newly restored Man Ray: Return to Purpose — a Man Ray anthology — premiered on the Cannes Movie Competition.
The recordings on this specific album had been born from a February 2023 efficiency on the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Like with their previous work beneath the SQÜRL moniker, the ensuing music was created with “distorted guitars, hypnotic suggestions, loops and affected synthesizers.”
“It’s a journey we wish to take the viewers on, illuminating themes all through these movies,” Logan stated by way of a press launch. “They’re discrete, however there are additionally recurring echoes all through the entire program.”
Added Jarmusch: “We really feel very proud to be Man Ray’s backup band.”
As for Man Ray: Return to Purpose, the anthology options 4 silent brief movies by Man Ray: Étoile de mer (1928), Emak bakia (1926), Le Retour á la Raison (1923), and Les Mysteres du Château de Dé (1929) — every paired with an unique rating by SQÜRL. The anthology is about to open in New York at IFC Middle on Could fifteenth.
Pre-order Music of Man Ray by way of Bandcamp and see the paintings and tracklist under. For extra on SQÜRL, revisit our 2023 interview wherein the duo discusses their album Silver Haze, their favourite movie scores, and extra.
Music of Man Ray Art work:
Music of Man Ray Tracklist:
01. Starfish
02. Depart Me Alone
03. The Return
04. Citadel of Cube
