Wonderful orchestral pieces full of longing and melancholy. It is
that certain kind of melancholy that seizes you when you are moved while
following the final credits of an emotionally touching movie,
remembering special moments that have faded in the course of many years
and linger hazily in your memory, when you are somewhat wistfully
contemplating old, worn photographs from days passed by not a feeling of
failure or
hopelessness, but a bittersweet reflection.
Time and evanescence. This is the matching soundtrack.
Orchestral cinemascope sounds provide the emotionally moving fundament,
wrap the tracks up in a warm coating. Graceful strings pile up, creating
big moments and repeatedly ending inmelodies that are simply
heart-rending, cinematic and tragic. But the Bersarin Quartett does not
merely rely on these ingredients. The
songs are also repeatedly interspersed with suspenseful and surprising
elements, be it frail electronica, hypnotic soundscapes, drums or
reverbed guitars. Rarely has amelange sounded as convincing and natural
as this, and rarely has it sounded so well produced.
Thomas himself calls his music imaginary fictional filmscores. And it is
hardly possible to come up with a more apt term. 10 tracks for 10
movies that have yet to be shot. Music that radiates such an enormous
and authentic passion in every single minute, that one cant help but
completely abandon oneself to it. And honestly: Can there be anything
more wonderful that can be achieved through music ?