Dust Of Time

Music for the film by Theo Angelopoulos, with Willem Dafoe, Bruno Ganz, Irène Jacob, Christiane Paul, Michel Piccoli

ECM's recordings of Eleni Karaindrou's music for films have always been more than "soundtracks": they stand as independent artworks. So it is with the music written originally for Angelopoulos's "Dust of Time". In these intensely melodic compositions created from a delicate balance of instrumental colours, violin, cello and harp are especially important, as Karaindrou notes, "not only because of their own distinctiveness but also because of the inner quality of three participating musicians who live in Greece but were born in Rumania and Albania (Sergiu Nastasa, Renato Ripo, Maria Bildea). The flavour of their own musical tradition (tsiganiko) and of a very special inner feeling, permeates their playing. I had the feeling that the accordion had to pervade certain special moments with its colour; and the oboe should add some emotional touches on the canvas of my music."