Dust of Time (soundtrack)

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Dust of Time
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Soundtrack album by Eleni Karaindrou
Released 2009
Recorded January and March 2008
Genre Film music
Length44:40
Label ECM
Producer Manfred Eicher
Eleni Karaindrou chronology
Elegy of the Uprooting
(2005)		Dust of Time
(2009)

Dust of Time is a soundtrack album by Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou featuring music for the film The Dust of Time by Theodoros Angelopoulos recorded in 2008 and released on the ECM New Series label. [1]

Eleni Karaindrou is a Greek composer, born in the village of Teichio (Tichio) in Phocis, Central Greece, on November 25, 1941. She is best known for scoring the films of the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos.

<i>The Dust of Time</i> 2008 film by Theodoros Angelopoulos

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ECM Records German independent record label

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "While her many scores for his films have been celebrated for their subtlety and ingenious sense of time and nuance -- as well as instrumentation, texture, and color -- this one moves across musical cultures as well as across the span of years built into the script. As a piece of music, it walks the line between modern classical music with folk themes and more historical post-Romantic-era composition". [2]

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Track listing

All compositions by Eleni Karaindrou
  1. "Le Temps Perdu" - 2:07
  2. "Dance Theme Var II" - 2:40
  3. "Notes I" - 1:19
  4. "Seeking Var II" - 2:23
  5. "Waltz by the River" - 3:33
  6. "Unravelling Time I" - 1:21
  7. "Tsiganiko I" - 1:22
  8. "Dance Theme Var I" - 3:17
  9. "Seeking" - 2:37
  10. "Memories from Siberia" - 3:16
  11. "Unravelling Time II" - 1:21
  12. "Notes II" - 2:33
  13. "Tsiganiko II" - 1:22
  14. "Seeking Var I" - 3:26
  15. "Dance Theme" - 4:30
  16. "Le Mal Du Pays" - 1:16
  17. "Nostalgia Song" - 1:38
  18. "Solitude" - 2:21
  19. "Adieu" - 2:18
  • Recorded at Megaron in Athens, Greece in January (tracks 9 & 15) & March (tracks 1-8, 10-14 & 16-19), 2008

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References

  1. ↑ ECM discography accessed November 17, 2011
  2. 1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed November 17, 2011
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