Jacaszek - Music for Film (2020) [Hi-Res]

Few do cinematic sorrow quite like Poland’s Jacaszek and ‘Music For Film’ spans 20 years of his bleakest, most seductively sad and spectral works for film in 10 pieces that patently make for a beautiful album.

Epitomising a certain, haunted nature and emotive clout we’d associate with soundtracks for bleak Polish and Eastern European cinema, Jacaszek’s various strands of work for documentary, fantasy and TV drama seep together in the creepily paced sequence of events and spectral apparitions that unfold within the ambient-classical-concrete interzones of his ‘Music For Film’.

Etched in chiaroscuro over broad canvasses from a palette of field recordings, acoustic sampling, poetry and baroque instrumentation, his music trustingly evokes the dark fairytales and hardbitten dramas he’s been sought out to score, but removed from those contexts and replaced into an album sequence, the suggestive essence of Jacaszek’s music becomes more versatile, lending itself to your own swoon-worthy scenes and perhaps most acutely, often as a crushing elegy for the times.

RIYL Deathprod, Deaf Center, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and this one’s among the most convincing examples of his chilling abilities.

Tracklist:
01. Jacaszek - 49 (2:10)
02. Jacaszek - The Iron Bridge (6:05)
03. Jacaszek - November Early (4:20)
04. Jacaszek - Twelve Years (4:43)
05. Jacaszek - Dance (5:39)
06. Jacaszek - Christ Blood Theme (3:26)
07. Jacaszek - Liina (4:22)
08. Jacaszek - Encounter Me In The Orchard (4:33)
09. Jacaszek - November Late (5:54)
10. Jacaszek - The Zone (3:17)