Does Nicolas Jaar's music defy description?

The New Yorker blends electronic music with Ethiopian jazz and South American rhythms, but refuses the ethno-techno tag. So how to describe his debut album, The Student?What do you call Nicolas Jaar's music? The 20 year-old American may be closely associated with New York's Wolf + Lamb label, but the music he makes has only a tangential relationship with house or techno. For his debut release, The Student, Wolf + Lamb had to request Jaar underscore this crumbling meditative piano piece with a be...

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