You Have Already Gone to the Other World

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.

You Have Already Gone to the Other World
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 2, 2013
RecordedAlbuquerque, New Mexico at Sonido del Norte
GenreBalkan
Folk
Length57:40
LabelL.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
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic74/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Pitchfork Media[3]
PopMatters[4]
Drowned in Sound[5]

Background

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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.

Track listing

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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

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  • Jeremy Barnes - accordion
  • Heather Trost - violin
  • John Dieterich - featuring on tracks 2,5 and 7
  • John Dieterich, Griffin Rodriguez and Jeremy Barnes - recording
  • Billy Joe Miller - album photography

Samples

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  • All traditional songs arranged by Barnes and Trost
  • Samples from Sergei Parajanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors on tracks 1, 2, 4, 10 and 15:
    • (1) Open It, Rose (Hungary) sample at 01:16 in the movie[6]
    • (2) You Have Already Gone to the Other World
    • (4) Wedding Theme (Ukraine) sample at 52:33 in the movie[7]
    • (10) Horses of Fire Rachenitsa
    • (15) Ivan and Marichka / The Sorcerer sample at 46:15 in the movie[8]
  • An unknown Hungarian[a] on track 14 "Oh, Lord, Saint George, Bewitch Ivan, Make Him Mine"

Notes

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  1. ^ Cited in the booklet as "An unknown Hungarian (78)"
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The album - You Have Already Gone to the Other World

The movie - Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors

References

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