Kinan Azmeh

Rigodon (O.S.T.)

Miscellaneous | Syria | 2007

In the words of directors Sari Lluch Dalena and Keith Sicat, ‘Rigodon’ is "a film about outsiders, people on the periphery – exiles. This feeling of alienation is a universal one that expresses itself without words. Words may even be inadequate. This is where Kinan Azmeh’s score comes into play; the Syrian composer’s lush and haunting music possesses an intimate understanding of humanity: its emotions, yearnings, dreams and nightmares. Azmeh’s score, mingled with the images from 'Rigodon', makes these human complexities transcend the muted silence of the exiles’ world". Perhaps it is fitting to describe Azmeh’s expressive music with a word: powerful. It comes across as a combination of contemporary classical and ambient music, without however falling into the conventional clichés associated with these genres. ‘Rigodon’ is reminiscent at times of Philip Glass’s film scores and compositions for the cinema.