| Ulysses' Gaze | ||||
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| Released | January 9, 1995 | |||
| Recorded | December 1994 | |||
| Genre | Film music | |||
| Length | 59:33 | |||
| Label | ECM New Series ECM 1570 | |||
| Producer | Manfred Eicher | |||
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Ulysses' Gaze is a soundtrack album by Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou recorded in December 1994 and released on the ECM New Series the following year, featuring music for the Theodoros Angelopoulos film of the same name. [1]
Ulysses’ Gaze, the album, is the third ECM recording to feature music written by Eleni Karaindrou for her countryman Angelopoulos. The first edition—issued under the title Music for Films—focused primarily upon the director’s Trilogy of Silence (Voyage to Cythera, The Beekeeper, and Landscape in the Mist); the second presented music written for The Suspended Step of the Stork, Angelopoulos’ critically-heralded 1991 film.[ citation needed ]
The AllMusic review by Stacia Proefrock states, "Perhaps no previous Karaindrou score contains the evocative power of her compositions for Ulysses' Gaze, the film about memory, artistic quests, and war.... The theme associated with 'A', the central character who serves as the Ulysses of the film's title, is a constant repetitive framework upon which small vignettes of European folk music and elegiac song are built. The effect mirrors the film's journey across a portion of Europe torn apart by political divides and war, but more importantly provides small fragments of the pure images of peace and beauty that are so essential for Ulysses to find.." [2]
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The following tracks appear on the album. [3]
Theme or themes may refer to:
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely respected filmmakers in the world. He started making films in 1967. In the 1970s he made a series of political films about modern Greece.
ECM is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969. While ECM is best known for jazz music, the label has released a variety of recordings, and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres. ECM's motto is "the most beautiful sound next to silence", taken from a 1971 review of ECM releases in Coda, a Canadian jazz magazine.
Eleni Karaindrou is a Greek composer. She is best known for scoring the films of the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos.
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