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StreamingSoundtracks.com - Cairo Time - Niall Byrne
Album Information |
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Album
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Cairo Time |
Artist
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Niall Byrne |
Year
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2009 |
Genre
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Soundtrack |
Rating
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Contributor
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Ruelf |
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Reviewers Rating |
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1 review done for this album. |
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The lyrical piano theme stays with you after the score has finished. |
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MainTitles |
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21 Aug 2011 |
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Written by Alan Rogers - Review of the download only release
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The music is firmly set (for the most part) in the Western idiom, featuring a strong presence of solo piano (perhaps played by the composer himself) with the support of a small string ensemble (possibly a quartet). Heard immediately in the first cue “Arrival”, the lyrical theme gets a full statement on piano and reminds me much of the work of Ludovico Einaudi. Throughout the subsequent cues we hear this theme being played with slight variations both in the piano lines as well as in the supporting strings. For example, fragments of the theme can be heard as part of a waltz in “Tareq Takes A Quiz”. We first hear any hint of place geographically in track 8, “Bus To Gaza” where what sounds like a zither-type instrument plays a hesitant secondary theme. This secondary theme and the ethnic influences are featured in several subsequent cues (“Stopped By Israelis”, “Mosque”, “Tareq and Juliette Drive”), sometimes being heard in conjunction with some threatening sustained synth underscore (e.g., “Stopped By Israelis”).
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