Musica de Cine Blog Reviews Rough Magic

Read it in Spanish: I know atonal music is not melodic and not especially liked by film music fans, but it should not always be vilified.  There are many works written in this style that are perfectly listenable and have great orchestral quality.  Take the works of Toru Takemitsu or Gyorgy Ligeti whose compositions have been performed in the most …

Fanfare Magazine reviews Rough Magic

Composer Craig Safan, who has a background in film music, here embarks on an ambitious project: to take listeners “back into the distant past, into the minds and visions of early man and his most instinctual evocations of experience and sprirituality”. Taking sounds from caves visited by the composer in France and Spain, plus samples from obscure instruments and selecting …

Perseverance Records releases Craig Safan’s new album “Rough Magic: Music Inspired by the Paleolithic Cave Paintings of Europe”

Craig Safan’s first “non-filmscore” release.   Music based on his impressions of the cave paintings of Paleolithic Europe.  Here are Safan’s liner notes: I’ve been fascinated by mythology since I was six years old.  I can remember sitting for hours in the school library looking through books of Greek Myths, entranced.  Summers spent in Laredo, Texas turned into extensive fossil …