Dust Of Time

in dust of time the role of music is central. the character spyross father, is a pianist. the piano, then, had to be present in my music, karaindrou says. however the colour of the violin, of the cello and of the harp turned out to be dominant, 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, marked by their having been uprooted from their countries, 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. making music for cinema is one thing, the art of crafting albums from the material another. around 100 minutes of music were recorded for the film, karaindrou says, it took the ingenious, drastic intervention of manfred eichers dramaturgy to create a concentrated sound result of 45 minutes, with colours mixing into an invisible palette of delicate balances.