SQÜRL

SQÜRL began in 2009 to record some original music for the film THE LIMITS OF CONTROL. Echoing the varied Spanish landscapes captured in the film, the three emerged with a set of slow-motion psychedelic rock’n’roll songs (releasing them as Bad Rabbit). Following these scoring sessions Jim, Shane, and Carter continued to record new originals while also exploring the back-alleys of American country, noise, and psychedelia. Having changed their name to SQÜRL the group released 3 EPs of these songs on ATP Recordings. In 2013, SQÜRL collaborated with Jozef Van Wissem to score the film ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE. The film and soundtrack album were released worldwide in 2014. As duo, Jim and Carter debuted a new sonic exploration starting in early 2015: scoring four silent films by American Dada and Surrealist artist Man Ray. Performed live along to the films, relying heavily on loops, synthesizers and effected guitars, the semi-improvised scores drift toward the band's more experimental, ambient and drone-like tendencies. In early 2017 SQÜRL released EP #260, a heavier instrumental suite, with innovated b-side remixes by Anton Newcombe and Föllakzoid on Sacred Bones Records. With their other most recent project, composing and recording the score for the film PATERSON, SQÜRL dove deeper into the ocean of ambient electronic music. Drums and guitars have been (though only temporarily) left behind in favor of analog synths on a quest for new ecstatic sounds to enrich the poetry of the film. The soundtrack album will be released in 2017. SQÜRL is: Carter Logan & Jim Jarmusch, and often includes Shane Stoneback on record and Jozef Van Wissem live.