Music Davood A. Tabrizi Music Research Clare Shanks Music Recorded at EMI Studio 301 Music Recorded by Richard Lush Music Mixed by Davood A Tabrizi Richard Lush Lyrics Davood A Tabrizi Solo Voices Mara Kiek Martin Doherty The film s score was released on LP and CD by Jarra Hill in 1989.
JHR 2010; CD Jarra Hill JHR 2010 1989 The composer had this to say about the music on the back cover of the LP release: About the Record: Most existing medieval music reflects the life of the rich - usually the court and the nobles - so a search began to create a music that would suggest the earthiness of the daily life of a 14th-century miner in a bleak Cumbrian village. I was inspired by Celtic folk music, Gregorian chant or plainsong, mining songs from the 19th century, naive peasant music and Scottish military music, which were fused with the Eastern sounds brought back to the West by the Crusaders. The Music of The Navigator has travelled like the film itself. Solo Voices: Mara Kiek Martin Doherty
Instrumentalists: Paul Koerbin on Gaita (Spanish bagpipes), Gaida (Macedonian bagpipes), Shawm, Crumhorn, Psaltry and Oud Bill O Toole on Wooden Flute and Medieval Bagpipe Justo Diaz on Quena and Quenacho (flutes of the Andes) Olympia Karanges on Zampoñia (panflute of the Andes) Davood A Tabrizi on Bombo (Argentinian base drum) Tempo, Dohol (Persian drums, Saz (Turkish string instrument) and Abek Flute Orchestras: Northern Chamber Orchestra Sydney University Chamber Choir Produced by Davood A Tabrizi Engineered and mixed by Richard Lush Recorded at EMI Studio (Sydney) Research by Alison Carter. Cover by Sherman, Sherman & Bolt P/L Side One: Forging the Cross Vision The Ascent Plainsong Queenfish Macedonian Pipes Paean: The Dance Refugees Connor s Return Storm Work Song Escape The Fall Celtic Refrain Side Two: Requiem The Knell Panpipes and Drums: Loading the Horse Seeing the Celestial City The Pilgrimage Brotherhood Cantus The Chase Falcon Call Thunder Dream
Azan - The Caller from the East The Death The Quest Asunder Trumpet Call Celtic Refrain The CD seems to have had several covers:
The press booklet for the film contained these notes on the music:
Composer: Davood A. Tabrizi is presented on the Move label, currently on line here, with these details for the Russian-born, Iranian-trained composer provided: Davood A. Tabrizi is an accomplished composer and performer from Iran. Trained in Western Classical and Persian Classical music, he has written music extensively in Australia, Iran, Canada and USA for film, theatre, television, radio and special events. Davood has established a reputation as being an innovative, multi-talented and diverse composer, producer and performer. He has won several awards for films including an Australian and New Zealand Film and Television Award for his score for The Navigator (dir. Vincent Ward) in 1988, while his score for Clara Law's Floating Life (1996) won the Golden Horse Award at the 1997 Taiwan Film Festival, as well as the Asian and Pacific Film Festival Award 1997. His other film credits include Business Behind the Bars (2000), Cinema, Cinema (1996), Resistance (1991),For All The World To See (1991), Australia Daze (1988), The Surfer (1986), Rocking the Foundations (1984), Hostage (1983) and Sleeping Lion (1977). His work was also represented on a Facebook page (link no longer working) in relation to a Sydney Festival performance: Davood A. Tabrizi A multi-award winning composer, one of the most exciting and innovative performers on the world music scene today brings together a dynamic collaboration between culturally diverse artists to present this musical celebration of Persian & Spanish flamenco fusion. He also performs with his band The Far Seas, with some amazing special performers. Trained in Western and Persian Classical music, Davood has written, recorded and performed music throughout Australia, Iran, Canada and USA. He has been a pioneer of world fusion music on the Australian scene since 1980. Tabrizi came to Australia after the Iranian hostage crisis. A number of his works can be found on YouTube by googling his name, while there are many other references to work by him and his band The Far Sea, ranging from Music Viva to world music sites. In terms of film music, he is perhaps best known for composing the score to Vincent Ward's The Navigator. (Below Davood Tabrizi)
(Below: Tabrizi winning an award for his music for Vincent Ward's The Navigator - presumably the New Zealand Film and Television award for best film score, though the awards aren t identified on the YouTube video showreel) (Below: Tabrizi and his band)