Nico Jaar ’12 to play Wesleyan Spring Fling
In a total reversal of roles, Wesleyan booked our very own super-producer Nico Jaar ’12 to perform at its Spring Fling in May. Wesleyan alums Das Racist, MGMT, and Santigold have all graced our Spring Weekend stage in recent years (2011, 2010, and 2009, respectively), and we are thrilled to return the favor and up our indie cred in the process.
April 25, 2012 2 Comments Tags: Nico Jaar, wesleyan
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[...] Jaar, who hails from New York by way of his family’s native Chile, describes his music as “blue-wave.” What that means, I think, is that this is a heady, cerebral fusion of styles—minimalist techno, sparse trip hop beats, lingering ambient passages, empty spaces galore—pieced together with what TinyMixtapes identifies as “a bricolage of submerged beats, French Impressionist-sounding piano squiggles, musique concrète doodads, and the occasional glum vocal.” It’s a wonderful record, too (my favorites cuts include the pulsing “Too Many Kids Finding Rain in the Dust” and the glitchy, piano-driven “Specters of the Future”), and if it may seem more suited to headphones at night than a very drunk Foss, consider that Jaar is bringing a live band with him to perform it. I, for one, am intrigued. (And yes, Jaar goes to Brown, which makes some sort of cosmic sense when you consider that our own Das Racist co-headlined Brown’s Spring Weekend a year ago this week. Thanks for the shout-out, BlogDailyHerald.) [...]
except he’s opening, not headlining…
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