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You Have Already Gone To The Other World

You Have Already Gone To The Other World
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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)Cervantine2011
You Have Already Gone To The Other World
(2013)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 74/100
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4/5 stars
Pitchfork Media 7.2/10 stars
PopMatters 6/10 stars
Drowned in Sound 9/10 stars

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.

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.

The album - You Have Already Gone To The Other World

The movie - Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors


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