You Have Already Gone to the Other World

You Have Already Gone To The Other World
Studio album by A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Released April 2, 2013
Recorded Albuquerque, New Mexico at Sonido del Norte
Genre Balkan
Folk
Length 57:40
Label L.M. Dupli-cation
A Hawk and a Hacksaw chronology
Cervantine
(2011)		 You Have Already Gone To The Other World
(2013)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic74/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Pitchfork Media[3]
PopMatters[4]
Drowned in Sound[5]

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.

Background

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.

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(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

Samples

Notes

  1. ↑ Cited in the booklet as "An unknown Hungarian (78)"

External links

The album - You Have Already Gone To The Other World

The movie - Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors

References

  1. ↑ "Metascore - Generally favorable reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved Oct 24, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Review by James Christopher Monger". Allmusic. Retrieved Oct 24, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Review by Paul Thompson". PitchFork Media. April 11, 2013. Retrieved Oct 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Review by Justin Pottle". PopMatters. Retrieved Oct 24, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Review by Robert Cooke". DrownedInSound. Retrieved Oct 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ Sample from "Open It, Rose (Hungary)" at 01:16 in "Shadows of forgotten ancestors". Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Sample from "Wedding Theme (Ukraine)" at 52:33 in "Shadows of forgotten ancestors". Retrieved 17 March 2016.
  8. ↑ Sample from "Ivan and Marichka / The Sorcerer" at 46:15 in "Shadows of forgotten ancestors". Retrieved 17 March 2016.
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