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.
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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 | |||
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Metacritic | 74/100[1] |
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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.
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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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 |
The album - You Have Already Gone to the Other World
The movie - Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors
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