Son De Mar - Music From The Film By Bigas Luna

Spain's best (and, after Almodovar, second best-known) film director, Bigas Luna, asked Piano Magic to score his new film, 'Son De Mar' after he'd walked into a Barcelona record store last year and heard a track from their 1998 album 'Low Birth Weight.' 'Son De Mar' translates as 'the sound of the sea' but also carries the sense 'born of the sea'. 'Son De Mar' stars Jordi Molla, Leonor Watling and Eduard Fernandez and was very well received back in May when it was previewed at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is a visually ambient tale of love found, lost, regained and then lost again, all spiced with Luna's shyless eroticism against the backdrop of a beautiful Valencian Summer.

The soundtrack was recorded over 5 days at Woodbine Street Studios, Leamington Spa with John Rivers - once the favoured recording location of Dead Can Dance. It is divided into 6 untitled sections and features the band's core members - Glen Johnson, Miguel Marin and Jerome Tcherneyan. Apart from their music, Piano Magic are also noted for their 'revolving door' membership policy - some 30 members have passed through the band over the past 3 years including Darren Hayman (Hefner) Pete Astor (The Wisdom Of Harry) and David Sheppard (State River Widening) but 'Son De Mar' features only the one addition, James Topham, on Viola.