Nicolas Jaar life and biography

Nicolas Jaar is a young American-Chilean musician. Currently studying comparative literature at Brown University, Rhode Island, Jaar is also the owner and founder of his own record label and art house Clown & Sunset, and has designed the Prism, a sleek, enigmatic audio device (inset) that plays his latest compilation, Don’t Break My Love.


Nicolas Jaar, a comparative-lit student at Brown who makes lush, meditative electronic music, played 30 gigs - from Paris to Playa del Carmen - culminating in a five-hour improvised set at MoMA PS1 in New York. Hearing the songs with the Prism is as easy - or complicated - as plugging in headphones and figuring out which unmarked button does what. And while Billboard suggested Prism - essentially a new way of packaging, distributing, and protecting work - "could potentially change the way people consume music," Jaar explained to W magazine that his intention wasn't to revolutionize the industry. "I simply wanted to create a beautiful space for my music to live in."

On May 18, 2012 Nicolas Jaar made his BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix debut.

Singles:

Colomb
John the Revelator
Your Waltz
Too many kids finding rain in the dust
Space is the Only Noise if you can see

EPs:

2008: The Student
2010: Russian Dolls
2010: Mark & Angels
2010: A Time For Us/ Mi Mujer
2010: Love You Gotta Lose Again
2011: Nico's Blueware Edits
2011: Don't Break my Love
2011: DARKSIDE EP

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