Messengers (Original Soundtrack) by Jana Irmert

Jana Irmert is coming back with a new album which is a soundtrack for ‘’Messengers’’ – a film made

by Jeffrey Zablotny which explores subterranean observatories hidden in Canada, Japan and

Antarctica.

There are many ways to embrace and create the themes for the film scores but in case of

‘’Messengers’’ it was how Jana used Yamaha Electone organ made it even more interesting. A

distinct sound was the main compositional and sound approach towards creating this album.

On one hand we have a cold scientifical study expressed in the film, the analysis that purely explores

the research and the places behind it. On the other hand we have an instrument that Jana

beautifully used with the whole physical aspect of this organ – sounds between the sounds, extra

space that is not being moulded into something sterile. On the contrary – and it worked towards the

advantage of the whole spectrum of sounds and the holistic entity that the instrument represents.

Dark, ceremonial ambience in a lyrical poetry of sound…

Messengers (Original Soundtrack) presents Jana Irmert’s score for Jeffrey Zablotny’s film

Messengers, a poetic exploration of three subterranean observatories hidden deep beneath Canada,

Japan, and Antarctica. Descending into vast underground research facilities built to detect some of

the universe’s most elusive phenomena, the film unfolds as a tactile meditation on human curiosity,

deep time, and the shadowy regions of the unconscious mind.

At the heart of the soundtrack is a vintage Yamaha Electone organ whose dark, ethereal, and

distinctly analog voice became the score’s guiding presence. Rather than treating the instrument as

a pristine sound source, Irmert embraces its physicality: the subtle noises of keys, mechanisms, and

air remain woven into the recordings, preserving the traces of a human body interacting with a real

object in space and time. These sonic imperfections become a counterweight to the film’s abstract

investigations of subatomic phenomena, grounding its cosmic inquiries in something tangible and

immediate.

The music unfolds through constantly shifting textures and evolving harmonic fields, reflecting one

of the film’s central ideas: a world composed of particles in perpetual motion, where certainty

dissolves into probability and transformation. Alongside the electric organ, seismic recordings and

resonances drawn from natural materials are woven throughout the score, creating a sonic fabric in

which composition and sound design become inseparable. Sounds emerge, recede, and recombine,

creating a sense of suspended time in which movement is continuous yet often imperceptible.

Throughout the score, darkness is presented as a fertile and luminous space of possibility where

hidden forces shape reality beneath the threshold of perception.

Balancing ambiguity and clarity, the elusive and the palpable, the music inhabits the same liminal

territory as the film itself. The organ’s warm, corporeal presence anchors the listener amid vast and

mesmerizing imagery, while its drifting resonances and spectral overtones open pathways toward

contemplation. What emerges is a deeply atmospheric work that invites listeners to linger in

uncertainty, tracing the delicate boundary between matter and mystery, between what can be

measured and what can only be sensed.

credits

releases July 17, 2026

All tracks produced, mixed and performed by Jana Irmert

Mastered by Philipp Rumsch

Artwork/Design by Donia Jornod

Cover image by Jeff Zablotny

Thank you:

Jeff Zablotny, Michael Martinek, Philipp Rumsch, Donia Jornod, Ralph Heidel

https://janairmert.bandcamp.com/album/messengers-original-soundtrack