Rough Guide Vol.2 Eleni Karaindrou

The ‘Rough Guide’ series returns to Fluid Radio with it’s second musical expedition. This new selection comes from the one and only Nils Frahm as he paints a detailed portrait of Eleni Karaindrou…

‘Eleni´s music has always moved me in a very special way. I realised that her work is not known to many people, so I hope this mix might help to spread her beautiful compositions. The pieces you hear, are all taken from the film scores she did for Theo Angelopoulos. Her subtle, classical but never boring compositions found their way into my life and I think it is an important addition. I hope you’ll enjoy them like I do.’ – Nils Frahm

Track List:

Bus Part
Depart
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Waiting 1
Train Car Neigbourhood Variation
Prayer
The Suspended Step
Hearing The Time
Parodos (The Land I Call Home)
An Ode Of Tears
Hercubas Theme 1
Hercubas Theme 2
Young Man’s Theme
The Tree
The Weaping Meadow
Lament 2
The River – Refugee’s Theme
Cassandra’s Theme
Theme Of The Uprooting 2
The Weaping Meadow 2
The Poet

About Eleni Karaindrou:

Eleni Karaindrou was born in 1941 in the Greek mountain village of Teichio. She studied piano and musical theory at the Athens Hellenic Conservatory, history and archaeology at the University of Athens, and ethnomusicology and orchestration at the Sorbonne and the Scuola Cantorum in Paris.

Since 1975 she has composed music for more than twenty feature films, and for more than 40 theatre plays and numerous television productions. Collaborating most often with Greek directors – above all Theo Angelopoulos, with whom she has had an ongoing creative association since 1983 – she has also worked with Harold Pinter, Chris Marker, Jules Dassin, Margarethe von Trotta and others.

Karaindrou has received numerous awards including the State Music Award (Greece) for her music for “Eternity and a Day”, the Dmitris Mitropoulos Award for her music for theatre (1994-96), and the Fellini Award from Europa Cinema, Italy. In 2002 she received the Golden Cross of the Order of Honor from the Greek president, for her life’s work. In 2004 she was nominated for the European Film Award for her music for “The Weeping Meadow”, which was also Oscar-nominated.

Eleni Karaindrou has been an ECM recording artist since 1991, working closely with producer Manfred Eicher in rearranging and adapting compositions originally written for stage and screen for album release. Her ECM discs are “Music for Films”, “The Suspended Step of the Stork”, “Ulysses’ Gaze”, “Eternity and a Day”, “Trojan Women”, “The Weeping Meadow” and “Elegy of the Uprooting”.

She is married to Antonis Antypas, film and theatrical director with whom she has a son, Giorgos Faraklas, professor of philosophy.

www.myspace.com/elenikaraindrou
www.theoangelopoulos.com
www.myspace.com/nilsfrahm