ARMUGAN (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
ARMUGAN (Original Motion Picture
Soundtrack)
Director Jo Sol
Music by Juanjo Javierre
Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd
CD Digital & CD Physical Limited Edition
In a remote valley of the Aragonese Pyrenees the legend of Armugan
is told.
It is said that he is dedicated to a mysterious and terrible
profession, the likes of such that no one dares to speak. They say that Armugan
moves through the valleys clinging to the body of Anchel, his faithful servant
and together they share the secret of a work as old as life, as terrible as
death itself.
Armugan’s score started with a simple and beautiful musical
instrument – a new flute that inspired the direction I look when composing the
music for the film.
As the film shows its protagonist playing a “primitive instrument”,
we decided to connect with an extraordinary luthier, Jose Eduardo Marquez
“Cazador de Sonidos”, in order to invent a truly special object. He created the
Flauta de Pluma de Buitre, an incredible flute made with the wing feather of a
vulture.
For centuries the shepherds in the Pyrenees have played ancient
flutes made with animal bones. The Flauta de Pluma de Buitre is coherent with
the traditions of Armugan’s land but is also a beautiful piece of art in its
own right.
I found the right direction of this score playing, sampling and
processing the flutes. Armugan reflects on euthanasia, bioethics and the roll
of the death process in our time. I use the flute like a metaphor of the vital
breath. The musical canvas was completed with blown instruments: like woodwinds
and an Indian bansuri and the wonderful voice of Ruth Corey.
Armugan pictured the mountains and the traditions of my
grandparent’s land, the score of the film is an artisanal musical work that
began in the atelier of an amazing artisan.
Juanjo
Javierre
1 No me arrepiento
de nada
2 La flauta de pluma
3 Lacrimosa
4 La Ciudad
5 El Rebaño
6 En el agua pura
7 Tenían miedo a perderlos
8 Lux aeterna
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