Third Man Releases SQURL's Score for Jim Jarmusch's 'Paterson'

With their most recent project, the score for Paterson (2016), SQÜRL (Carter Logan and Jim Jarmusch) took inspiration from their performances live-scoring Man Ray's surrealist silent films and made a dive into the ocean of ambient electronic music.

The poetry of Jarmusch's latest fiction film offering requested a slightly different approach in texture, timbre and tone than the band's usual sound, leading them to employ primarily analog synthesizers and leave drums and guitars behind. Feedback gives way to glass harmonica drones, kick drums to sub-bass punctuation marks. "It's ambient, dreamy stuff," Jarmusch told IndieWire while promoting the film's release.

While a brighter counterpoint to some of SQÜRL's previous work, including their Live at Third Man Records LP, using some new tools, the band's purpose has remained to create their own variation on ecstatic music.

Third Man Records releases the complete score to Paterson today on 12" vinyl LP and at digital retail. Purchase wherever fine records are sold and at thirdmanstore.com.

TRACK LISTING

1. Bright Air

2. Dark to Light

3. Blue and Gray

4. Persian Dream

5. Warm Sun...Cold Snow

6. Water Falls

7. Trillions of Molecules

About SQÜRL: An enthusiastically marginal rock band from New York City who like big drums & distorted guitars, cassette recorders, loops, feedback, sad country songs, molten stoner core, chopped & screwed hip-hop, and imaginary movie scores. SQÜRL began in 2009 when Jim and Carter teamed with producer/engineer Shane Stoneback to record some original music for the film THE LIMITS OF CONTROL. Echoing the varied Spanish landscapes captured in the lm, the three emerged with a set of slow-motion psychedelic rock instrumentals (releasing them originally as Bad Rabbit). As the artists settled into their new moniker SQÜRL, the group released a series of 3 EPs, recorded over a 3 year period by Shane at Treefort Recording in Brooklyn, NY. In 2013, SQÜRL collaborated with Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem to compose and perform the score for the film ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE. Bridging ancient and modern sounds, the score serves as a reflection of the distinct textures of Detroit and Tangier. The lm and soundtrack album were released worldwide in 2014, and earned the group the Cannes Soundtrack Award from a consortium of lm and music critics. Earlier in 2017 SQÜRL released EP #260, a heavier instrumental suite, with innovated b-side remixes by Anton Newcombe and Föllakzoid.

Produced by SQÜRL and Jonathan Kreinik.

Mixed by Jonathan Kreinik at Boombox Magnetica.

Mastered by Heba Kadry at Timeless Mastering.

To post a comment, you must register and login.