Andrey Dergatchev, soundtrack creator, was born in 1969 in Astrakhan, Russia, and has worked variously as a dancer, light and sound designer, musician and actor as well as composer of music for film, video and ballet.
Dergatchev's use of modern technology is so organic that when a soft, minimalist electric piano pattern blends with the sound of engines on "Port" it makes perfect sense. In many ways an extension of Eno's work, in particular Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (EG, 1983), Dergatchev's music for The Return should be considered less as a manifestation of traditional musical concerns, more as an enveloping audioscape. Film soundtracks are often presented as short and discrete sound bytes, but the beauty of The Return is that it's a more or less continuous fifty minutes of music, with its own emotional and narrative arc.
Andrey Dergatchev, soundtrack creator, was born in 1969 in Astrakhan, Russia, and has worked variously as a dancer, light and sound designer, musician and actor as well as composer of music for film, video and ballet.
Dergatchev's use of modern technology is so organic that when a soft, minimalist electric piano pattern blends with the sound of engines on "Port" it makes perfect sense. In many ways an extension of Eno's work, in particular Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (EG, 1983), Dergatchev's music for The Return should be considered less as a manifestation of traditional musical concerns, more as an enveloping audioscape. Film soundtracks are often presented as short and discrete sound bytes, but the beauty of The Return is that it's a more or less continuous fifty minutes of music, with its own emotional and narrative arc.