jazz & world music new releases - Harmonia Mundi UK Distribution

Label: Winter&Winter
File Under: Jazz
Catalogue No: 910181-2
Barcode: 025091018123
Format: 1 CD
Packaging: digipack
Ernst Reijseger [artistic director, cello]
Harmen Fraanje [piano, church organ, Wurlitzer
piano]
Sean Bergin [penny whistle]
Nederlands Kamerkoor
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Ernst Reijseger
RELEASE DATE
5TH SEPTEMBER 2011
Composer and cellist Ernst Reijseger has written and recorded the soundtrack for Werner Herzog's »Cave Of Forgotten
Dreams«. Herzog made a documentary which is a wonderful portrait of the cave art discovered at Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc in
France. These paintings are achingly beautiful, and when Herzog's camera glides along the cave walls, accompanied by
the music of cellist Ernst Reijseger, it's impossible not to be moved and awed.
Reijseger creates enchanting music for choir, organ, piano, flute and cello. The human voices of the Nederlands
Kamerkoor, Harmen Fraanje's organ sounds, Sean Bergin's flute and Ernst Reijseger's cello arise to a complex sound
painting. His music is a refreshment for the soul, far away from the noise and chaos of a big city. Reijseger has
composed music of unearthly beauty for the thirty thousand years old cave paintings and created a new cathedral of
sounds.
Werner Herzog: "The music in this film is extremely important and adds a very strange beautiful different dimension to it.
Ernst Reijseger, a great and genius avant-garde cello player and composer."
The film was released in the UK in March 2011 to universal acclaim from the critics.
“PROFOUND, MYSTERIOUS AND UTTERLY ABSORBING” ***** EMPIRE
“IT'S ALMOST LIKE WATCHING THE REINVENTION OF THE CINEMATIC MEDIUM" ***** THE GUARDIAN