Nicolas Jaar

Nicolas Jaar is a Palestinian-Chilean American composer and musician. Among his notable works are the albums Space Is Only Noise (2011), Sirens (2016), and Cenizas (2020) He has also released two albums as one half of his band Darkside (Psychic, 2013, Spiral, 2021) and two further albums under the alias Against All Logic. He scored Jacques Audiard's Dheepan (2015 Palme d'Or winner) and Pablo Larrain's 2019 film Ema. Jaar made his BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix debut on May 18, 2012, which was voted Radio 1's Essential Mix Of The Year of 2012. He has released many experimental recordings through the imprint Other People, including works by Lydia Lunch, Pierre Bastien, John Wall and Lucrecia Dalt. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children. He is the son of a French and Palestinian father and a Chilean mother. His mother is ethnically French, while his father has Dutch and Palestinian ancestry; the surname Jaar, a well known Palestinian family from Bethlehem.