You Have Already Gone to the Other World | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | A Hawk and a Hacksaw |
Cover: | YHAGTTOW.jpg |
Released: | April 2, 2013 |
Recorded: | Albuquerque, New Mexico at Sonido del Norte |
Genre: | Balkan Folk |
Length: | 57:40 |
Label: | L.M. Dupli-cation |
Prev Title: | Cervantine |
Prev Year: | 2011 |
Next Title: | Forest Bathing |
Next Year: | 2018 |
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.
The 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.
The album - You Have Already Gone to the Other World
The movie - Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors