Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan started SQÜRL in 2009 so that they could score Jarmusch’s film The Limits Of Control, and they’ve released a number of EPs and film scores since then. But last month, the duo announced their debut full-length album, Silver Haze, and shared its lead single “Berlin ’87.” They got an assist from Charlotte Gainsbourg for the new single “John Ashbery Takes A Walk”; Gainsbourg reads two of Ashbery’s poems on top of a SQÜRL composition. Check out a video for the track created by Jem Cohen below.
The President of Iceland, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson will be presenting film director Jim Jarmusch with the 2010 RIFF Honorary Creative Award during this year’s Reykjavik International Film Festival.