Darkside’s Nicolas Jaar composes alternate soundtrack to experimental 1969 Armenian film

Electronic musician and one half of experimental music duo Darkside, Nicolas Jaar, has composed an alternate soundtrack to The Colour of Pomegranates, an experimental 1969 Soviet film directed by Sergei Parajanov. The film is a coming-of-age story that follows the life of an Armenian ashik, or bard, Sayat-Nova, whose discovery of love, sex, religion and death is captured in a series of avant-garde, static tableaux.

The original score for the film was written by Armenian classical and film composer Tigran Mansuryan. In Jaar’s version, the soundtrack is split up into 20 tracks, and is referred to as Pomegranates.