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
Personnel
- Jeremy Barnes - accordion
- Heather Trost - violin
- John Dieterich - featuring on tracks 2,5 and 7
- John Dieterich, Griffin Rodriguez and Jeremy Barnes - recording
- Billy Joe Miller - album photography
Samples
- All traditional songs arranged by Barnes and Trost
- Samples from Sergei Parajanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors on tracks 1, 2, 4, 10 and 15:
- (1) Open It, Rose (Hungary) sample at <small>01:16</small> in the movie
- (2) You Have Already Gone to the Other World
- (4) Wedding Theme (Ukraine) sample at <small>52:33</small> in the movie
- (10) Horses of Fire Rachenitsa
- (15) Ivan and Marichka / The Sorcerer sample at <small>46:15</small> in the movie
- An unknown Hungarian on track 14 "Oh, Lord, Saint George, Bewitch Ivan, Make Him Mine"
Notes
External links
The album - You Have Already Gone to the Other World
The movie - Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors
References