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Schwarzfahrer
Of course, film music and film music may be different things, no matter what the mass of sound tracks on the shelves of CD shops may suggest. For whereas those, as a rule, are compilations of songs played (or just outlined) in the respective movies, the music of "Schwarzfahrer" distinctly has more to offer: on the sound track a consistent work of art develops which can be approached via the film, but also from the outside.
The instrumental pieces, written for "Schwarzfahrer" by former Ostbahn-Kurti guitarist Karl Ritter, and recorded with a handful of friends (on accordion: Otto Lechner), are based on the reliable foundations of the blues, that's for sure. This starting position is a favourable one, since it offers Ritter, the man on several guitars, an optimal musical vocabulary for his mysterious excursions into the atmosphere: over the quiet, familiar cadenzas of the blues, the strings begin chirping and lamenting, sounds arrange into little stories, into whims, into a musical fata morgana. Balloons of sound ascend so that those who follow their flight paths be supplied with material for their own stories. Which is the very highest you can say about film music (that wants more than merely to fill the silence of the sound track).
Christian Seiler (transl.)
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