Music


Hi! Did you notice the eastern themes and especially the Iranian music in this great movie???

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I hope to see the film tomorrow. Master Golpa started his European tour from Paris and will be on tour in Europe the coming weeks. This evening at 8 o'clock I received an invitation to join the tour. Welcome to Golpa, the Golden Voice of Iran at: http://www.golpa.org

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The film is simply beautiful. I think maybe one of pasolini's best. the film is not supported by the story itself, as the legend of Medea is nothing of a novelty or surprise. The strenght of the interpretation of callas - even if in limited gestures and dialogue - is simply beyond any superbe acting. i think she is by far the most symbolic Medea i have ever seen. the images are also photographic and the music is perfectly chosen to enhance the feeling of dreaming to return to magic lands and times.

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Personally, the music is the only thing that kept me watching.

Last film seen: Robert Bresson's Pickpocket - Brilliant!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053168/

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The free-jazz-like music with many wind instruments, high and low pitched, playing all together, is Tibetan.
I also heard Indian and Japanese music. And, of course, santur music, although I wouldn't know if it's Iranian or Turkish or something else from the Middle East.

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Actually, in its day, the film was considered somewhat revolutionary because of the music--if only for that, since it's otherwise rather abysmal.

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Altho no opinion is illegitimate, so then neither is mine: You have not Clue 1 in what Pasolini accomplished with Medea. Since your experience needs to mount till you educate yourself, i won't.

~ Native Angeleno

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I also heard some Bulgarian traditional folk songs - especially the women singing in Kolhis (Medea's land). I loved the way different cultures were combined in this film and stuck together - Mayan (Glauce's father), Italian, Greek, Middle Eastern, Balkan etc.

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The hodgepodge choice of music was a bit off-putting. Having chants of Tibetan Buddhist monks accompany a human sacrifice scene somewhere around the Black Sea is totally out of place.

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why does everyone expect everything to be so literal?

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The Tibetan horns and chants were perfectly placed...the sound is savage and primal and full of witchcratf, the images conjured up are gory and bloody, animal sacrifices, human sacrifices, and Medea comes from an antiquated, tribalistic, rough-hewn region and culture, that Tibetan music is also ancient and rough-hewn and withcrafted.

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Obviously, tho not with you, clearly, tho not with you, Pasolini is inundating you with ancient music still played from around the world to give you a sense of the ancient forces at play in ancient days, none of which you got.

~ Native Angeleno

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well, supposedly Jason had to travel to "the other side of the sea" (Asia) in order to find the golden fleece. So I think it was appropriate to use music from the middle-east and eastern europe. Besides it fits the hypnotic mood of the movie perfectly.

Great Soundtrack.

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That's not why that music was used tho. Note we hear it before and after Jason travels somewhere---not necessarily Asia, tho why not---to get the fleece. And the music covers several continents, not just the middle-east and eastern europe. You're thinking too logically, which is exactly what 'Medea' disolves. Even 'hypnotic' is too Western and so reflects you, not him and the ancient world he recreates.

~ Native Angeleno

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Hypnotic is too "Western" (whatever that means)?!?! Wow you can find fault in anything, congratulations, I thought I was a pedant!

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Spectacular use of traditional world music, classical Persian, Tibetan Monk Ritual, Bulgarian polyphony which crosses over into Grecian, Japanese koto & shakuhachi, Indian, and I even detected about 20 seconds of Chinese Dong polyphony/vocal.

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Soundtrack, includes dialogue:Medea (1969)http://www.mediafire.com/?nrcosxgv1mm5cicIf you liked the Japanese Classical and Tibetan Buddhist Liturgy and Persian Santour and Hindustani Vocal and Female Polyphony:Musiko Polytropo - The Cycle Of Life [Greece-Macedonia] [Stunning Greek Polyphony, nearly the same as the Colchean polyphony used on film)]http://www.mediafire.com/?bci9xdb6g2p9tkzEnsemble Yonin No Kai - Japon. Jiuta [Ocora]http://www.mediafire.com/?2v6sl2znq5bgt28Shamisen I. Japanese Traditional Music [King Records]http://www.mediafire.com/?6316ilnaelpr3o5Shamisen II. Japanese Traditional Music [King Records]http://www.mediafire.com/?szlg7qabcmi375f(sneaking in some Japanese Koto.....)Kariya Sozan Chiaki & Hihara Fumie - Japon / Japan - Shakuhachi & Koto [AirMail]http://www.mediafire.com/?qu5h401lq8rta8tMajid Kiani - Iran. Great Masters Of The Santurhttp://www.mediafire.com/?i3cqi7bcybp39dbDinkar Kaikini - Inde Du Nord [Ocora]http://www.mediafire.com/?mzd0dmx8ji5bvacTibet. Musique Rituelle [Ocora]http://www.mediafire.com/?86edhdwlxycwrh5The Tibetan Buddhist Chant [King Records]http://www.mediafire.com/?t5yytx5sgq5udwq"I even detected about 20 seconds of Chinese Dong polyphony/vocal" - that would be female Japanese vocal which sounds exactly like Chinese Dong. In fact there are moments when I think it's really Colchian polyphony (performed by either Russian or Bulgarian singers) singing in the style of Japanese classical vocal, and to taunt listeners with this possibility, several plucks of the shamisen are heard floating in space after the vocalise ends....

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