You Have Already Gone to the Other World

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You Have Already Gone to the Other World
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Studio album by
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
ReleasedApril 2, 2013
Recorded Albuquerque, New Mexico at Sonido del Norte
Genre Balkan
Folk
Length57:40
Label L.M. Dupli-cation
A Hawk and a Hacksaw chronology
Cervantine
(2011)		You Have Already Gone to the Other World
(2013)		 Forest Bathing
(2018)
Professional ratings
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Metacritic 74/100 [1]
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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.

Contents

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 traditional3:11
2."You Have Already Gone to the Other World"Jeremy Barnes3:18
3."Witch's Theme"Jeremy Barnes4:50
4."Wedding Theme (Ukraine)"Ukrainian traditional3:29
5."Dance Melodies from Bihor County (Romania)"Romanian traditional3:11
6."Hora Pa Bataie (Romania)"Romanian traditional1:58
7."Nyisd Ki Rózsám (Hungary)"Hungarian traditional3:49
8."Where No Horse Neighs and No Crow Flies"Jeremy Barnes3:39
9."Învârtîta Din Blaj (Romania)"Romanian traditional2:27
10."Horses of Fire Rachenitsa"Jeremy Barnes4:55
11."Bury Me in the Clothes I Was Married In"Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost2:32
12."Marikam, Marikam (Hungary)"Hungarian traditional2:07
13."The Snow in Kryvorivnya"Heather Trost2:58
14."Oh, Lord, Saint George, Bewitch Ivan, Make Him Mine"Heather Trost5:13
15."Ivan and Marichka / The Sorcerer"Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost5:42
16."On the River Cheremosh (Ukraine)"Ukrainian traditional4:31
Total length:57:40

Personnel

Samples

Notes

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

The album - You Have Already Gone to the Other World

The movie - Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors

References

  1. ↑ "Metascore - Generally favorable reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Review by James Christopher Monger". Allmusic. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Review by Paul Thompson". PitchFork Media. April 11, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Review by Justin Pottle". PopMatters. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Review by Robert Cooke". DrownedInSound. Archived from the original on October 29, 2013. Retrieved October 24, 2013.
  6. ↑ Sample from "Open It, Rose (Hungary)" at 01:16 in "Shadows of forgotten ancestors" . Retrieved March 17, 2016.
  7. ↑ Sample from "Wedding Theme (Ukraine)" at 52:33 in "Shadows of forgotten ancestors" . Retrieved March 17, 2016.
  8. ↑ Sample from "Ivan and Marichka / The Sorcerer" at 46:15 in "Shadows of forgotten ancestors" . Retrieved March 17, 2016.
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