The soundtrack
In addition to the interviews, the music should also play a central role in the film, it should create and intensify the atmosphere, support and carry scenes.
That’s why I looked for original, powerful and suitable music for the film, I asked musicians, listened to recommendations and went to the many smaller concerts that can be heard here in Leipzig.
Because it is not »On the beautiful blue Danube« that should accompany this film, but current, young and good music, which on the one hand takes up elements of the most diverse musical cultures of Central and South Eastern Europe, and on the other hand takes up, processes and further develops worldwide musical trends and developments, each with its own musical and artistic development.
Wonderful arrangements, excellent German lyrics and always in front Schüller, who as a philosopher, comedian and romantic provides an atypical look into very sympathetic abysses.
A young and highly talented musician from Leipzig who has been refining her songs with live looped soul choirs for four years and just released her new studio album a few weeks ago.
They play powerful Balkan ska, urban polka, klezmer jazz and reggae in an uncouth manner. The brass section is boldly jazzy, moving between improvisation and classical themes. The punky energy is relentless, brash to cheeky and sets every audience in wild motion.
The music of the Czech cellist duo of Dorota Barová and Andrea Konstankiewicz, multiple winners of the Anděl Prize of the Czech Academy of Popular Music, is an improvisation on the borderline of various genres, powerful and sensitive, and always surprising and innovative.
The first Viennese market stall band at the Ottakringer Yppenmarkt, which for five years now has become an interactive interface at a multicultural location, a sponge that absorbs, musically transforms and resounds on site.
»Dirty rock’n’roll, kraut and turnip rock with hearty punk and finely chiseled folk and stoner rock lines. A total of three guitars provide a roaring, fat sound that occasionally culminates in small metal tirades and grooves at all times.«
Tobias Prüwer at KREUZER Leipzig
must be experienced, preferably live. The Berlin band radiates an incredible musical energy, full-throated and wholehearted. It’s no wonder that their surf-punk-swing-polk’n’roll infects audiences across all generations.
»Her sound is invigorating, urgent, and also soothing; it is a fusion of Old World and new-music sensibilities—plaintive violin coupled with minimalist vocal lines, infused with the spirit and language of Czech, Slovak, and Moravian folk music.«
Alicia Zuckermann at New York Magazine
Nikolaus Herdieckerhoff elicits more than just soft, loud, high or low tones from his cello. The soundtracks are cleverly arranged and tell of love, chaos, life, the world or the psychedelic waltz, of the amusing persiflage of all nuances in the dialog between man and woman.
Original recordings
Kulturno-umetničko društvo »Ratko Pavlović Ćićko«
Conductor: Dalibor Ivović
Live on 25. 7. 2013
in Bogojevo, Serbia
Folklore ensemble Vidin
Live on 12. 8. 2013
in Vidin, Bulgaria
Folklore ensemble Silistra
Live on 23. 8. 2013
in Vetren, Bulgaria