Eleni Karaindrou

Eleni Karaindrou - The 10 (2008) [Greek TV Soundtrack]  Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 19, 2022
Eleni Karaindrou - The 10 (2008) [Greek TV Soundtrack]

Ελένη Καραϊνδρου ‎– Τò 10 (2008) [Greek TV Soundtrack]
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 256 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 152 Mb | Scans included
Label: ECM/Mikri Arktos | # CD MA15231-11 | Time: 01:03:20
Soundtrack, Contemporary Jazz, Contemporary Classical, Mediterranean/Balkan

Eleni Karaindrou – “Greece’s most eloquent living composer” in the words of Time magazine – was born in Teichio, a mountain village in central Greece. She still retains vivid memories of the sound world of her childhood: "the music of the wind, rain on the slate roof, running water. The nightingale's singing. And then the silence of the snow." Sometimes the mountains would echo to the sound of flutes and clarinets played at village festivals. “I still have a strong memory of the Byzantine melodies I heard in church and the continuous voices of the men accompanying the chanter," she has said. Resonances of this sound world, imbued with the history and suffering of her native land, have found their way into the many scores she has composed for film, TV and theatre in the past four decades.

Eleni Karaindrou - Trojan Women (2001)  Music

Posted by Designol at April 19, 2023
Eleni Karaindrou - Trojan Women (2001)

Eleni Karaindrou - Trojan Women (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 253 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 148 Mb | Scans included
Contemporary Classical, Score | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1810, 472 139-2 | 00:50:00

Euripides wrote The Trojan Women in 415 B.C., but his tragic play about the aftermath of the fall of Troy continues to resonate many centuries after it was first performed. Eleni Karaindrou, best know for her film scores for Ulysses' Gaze and Eternity and a Day, composed this score for a 2001 production of The Trojan Women after being struck by the parallels between the ancient Greek story and the recent situation in the Balkans. Although she chose to use various folk instruments from around the Mediterranean, such as the lyre, an ancestor of the modern violin; the lauto, a Greek form of the lute; and the ney, an end-blown flute, her stark compositions are not folkloric recreations. Instead, she blends the ancient timbres of the instruments with a vocal chorus to create a sound that is not quite modern but not archaic either. Perhaps the best word to use in describing Karaindrou's austere, beautiful music is timeless.
Eleni Karaindrou - Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Film by Theo Angelopoulos) (2004)

Eleni Karaindrou - Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (Film by Theo Angelopoulos) (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 194 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 102 Mb | Scans included
Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1885 | Time: 00:44:03
Soundtrack, Score, Contemporary Classical

Film and orchestral music composer Eleni Karaindrou has made a beautiful and moving statement with THE WEEPING MEADOW. A native of Greece, Karaindrou's influences are decidedly European, and within the music, one can hear the stamp of impressionistic composers like Erik Satie, avant garde innovators like Bartok, as well as Greek and Balkan folk forms. Karaindrou's music also traffics in 20th-century minimalism, creating tense, atmospheric spaces that feel empty and dense at once (one of the composer's frequently used motifs involves "patterns" that recall the tingling, polyphonic gestures of Phillip Glass). Although several themes are reprised throughout the album, the combination of ambient textures, folk phrasing (accordions, guitars, and violins figure prominently into several pieces), and lush orchestral work keep the music consistently interesting. The pieces are often set in a minor key, so a somber, melancholic mood prevails yet never feels forced or melodramatic, and the spacious, tasteful arrangements are in keeping with the ECM aesthetic.
Eleni Karaindrou - The Suspended Step Of The Stork (1992) {ECM 1456}

Eleni Karaindrou - The Suspended Step Of The Stork (1992) {ECM 1456}
EAC 1.0b1 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U+MD5 | Full Scans 300dpi | 204MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 82MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Classical, Soundtrack

Film composer Eleni Karaindou was born in the Greek mountain village of Teichio and raised in Athens, going on to study piano and music theory at the Hellenikon Odion. Relocating to Paris in 1969, she studied ethnomusicology for five years before returning to Greece to found the Laboratory for Traditional Instruments at the ORA Cultural Centre. Karaindrou's most successful collaboration was with filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, with whom she first teamed in 1982, going on to score features including 1991's The Suspended Step of the Stork, 1995's Ulysses' Gaze and 1998's Palme d'Or-winning Eternity and a Day. Although primarily aligned with the Greek film industry, Karaindrou also worked with noted European directors including Jules Dassin and the great Chris Marker.
Eleni Karaindrou - Mousiki gia tainies (Music for Films) (2001) {5CD Box Set Minos-EMI 724353775223}

Eleni Karaindrou - Mousiki gia tainies (Music for Films) (2001) {5CD Box Set Minos-EMI 724353775223}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 949 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 458 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 38 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2001 Minos / EMI | 724353775223
Stage & Screen / Classical / Film Music / Jazz / Soundtracks / World Music

Once we are aware that certain music has been written for film, it’s easy to wax poetic about said music’s visual associations. Yet I believe that one needn’t be aware of Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou’s filmic motivations in order to feel it in the same way, for hers imagines, recites, and sings the lament of a zeitgeist in decay. Karaindrou’s themes are potent yet familiar, even (if not especially) to those who’ve never heard them before. Brimming with tragedy and triumph alike, this is music not only for the fictional, but also for real strangers crossing paths in a world of mist and shadows.

Eleni Karaindrou - Concert In Athens (2013) {ECM 2220}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Nov. 17, 2019
Eleni Karaindrou - Concert In Athens (2013) {ECM 2220}

Eleni Karaindrou - Concert In Athens (2013) {ECM 2220}
EAC 1.0b3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 253MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 124MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Classical, Orchestral, Jazz

An exceptional live recording, “Concert In Athens”, the tenth ECM release by Greek composer Eleni Karaindrou, incorporates moving performances by guests Kim Kashkashian and Jan Garbarek. The US violist and the Norwegian saxophonist have each made important contributions to Karaindrou’s music in the past, Garbarek with his playing on the film-score for The Beekeeper (see “Music for Films”) and Kashkashian as the key musical protagonist of “Ulysses’ Gaze”. Themes of both those films are revisited here, amongst much that is new. A primary emphasis is music written for theatre: the wide-reaching emotional scope of pieces for plays by Arthur Miller, Tennesee Williams and Edward Albee provides a wonderful context for bringing the guest musicians into contact with Eleni’s soloists, above all the brilliant oboist Vangelis Christopoulos.
Eleni Karaindrou - Elegy Of The Uprooting (2008) {2CD + DVD9 NTSC ECM New Series 5506 & 1952/53}

Eleni Karaindrou - Elegy Of The Uprooting (2008) {2CD + DVD9 NTSC ECM New Series 5506 & 1952/53}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 395 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 219 Mb
DVD9 -> 6.09 Gb | All Regions | NTSC 16:9 | LPCM, 2 ch | ~ 103 min | ISO Image
Full Artwork @ 600 dpi (jpg) -> 60 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2006, 2008 ECM Records | ECM New Series 5506 & 1952/53
Classical / Orchestral / Contemporary Classics / Choral / Stage & Screen

In March 2005 Eleni Karaindrou presented what she called “a scenic cantata” at the Megaron in Athens, a tour through her music for film and theatre, with musical themes newly combined and contrasted. A live audio recording, “Elegy of the Uprooting”, was issued in 2006: “The two-CD set interweaves excerpts of her music from 13 different scores spanning more than two decades, although the irresistible congruence of the music is such that newcomers to Karaindrou’s oeuvre would be forgiven for thinking this is newly composed. The music seduces by its profound beauty, tenderness and candour.”. – International Record Review. Here is the video and audio document of the event.
Eleni Karaindrou - Music And Songs For The Theatre (2015) {2CD Mikri Arktos MA 15232-58Α}

Eleni Karaindrou - Music And Songs For The Theatre (2015) {2CD Mikri Arktos MA 15232-58Α}
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© 2015 Mikri Arktos | MA 15232-58Α
Classical / Orchestral / Contemporary Classics / Choral / Electronic / Stage & Screen / Ambient / Jazz

Film composer Eleni Karaindou was born in the Greek mountain village of Teichio and raised in Athens, going on to study piano and music theory at the Hellenikon Odion. Relocating to Paris in 1969, she studied ethnomusicology for five years before returning to Greece to found the Laboratory for Traditional Instruments at the ORA Cultural Centre. Karaindrou's most successful collaboration was with filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos, with whom she first teamed in 1982, going on to score features including 1991's The Suspended Step of the Stork, 1995's Ulysses' Gaze, and 1998's Palme d'Or-winning Eternity and a Day.
Eleni Karaindrou,  Kim Kashkashian - Ulysses' Gaze (1995) (Repost)

Eleni Karaindrou, Kim Kashkashian - Ulysses' Gaze (1995)
EAC | APE (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 59:41 | 242 MB
Genre: Modern Classical, Soundtrack | Label: ECM New Series | Catalog: 449 153-2

Eleni Karaindrou's long, fruitful partnership with Greek filmmaker Theo Angelopoulos has given birth to several scores for his award-winning films. However, perhaps no previous Karaindrou score contains the evocative power of her compositions for Ulysses' Gaze, the film about memory, artistic quests, and war that won the Grand Prix du Jury at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

Eleni Karaindrou - Tous des oiseaux (2019)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at Jan. 22, 2019
Eleni Karaindrou - Tous des oiseaux (2019)

Eleni Karaindrou - Tous des oiseaux (2019)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, m3u, log) & front cover - 220 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 133 MB
Label: ECM New Series / ECM 2634 | Tracks: 22 | Time: 58:14 min
Contemporary Classical, World

Greek composer Eleni Karaindrous new album draws upon music created for two special projects: Tous des oiseaux, a play by Lebanese-Canadian writer Wajdi Mouawad, and Bomb, A Love Story, a film by Iranian actor-director Payman Maadi.