Trying to sit down to tap out a page or two on the "book project" and listening to Baraka: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
Baraka was composed by Michael Stearns and was released on August 24th, 1993, one year after the film had opened for public viewing. (Baraka is a documentary film with no narrative or voice-over. It explores themes via a compilation of natural events, life, human activities and technological phenomena shot in 24 countries on six continents over a 14-month period. )
A beautifully contemplative album that takes a step away from the strictures of soundtrack needs, mixing a selection of material from sources around the world; it blends together work by artists as divergent as Somei Satoh, Michael Stearns, and Dead Can Dance, as well as indigenous selections, according to the inspirations of director Ron Fricke. The art with the production of the album is in the balancing of tracks to form the whole. The album thus presents quite a different experience from the film, though one no less engaging and transfixing.
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