Caravan (original soundtrack)

by Tim Story

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In 2005, Caravan/Caravana was issued on CD simultaneously in the US and Spain - this is the original US release on Nepenthe. Limited quantities.

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1.	Caravan (Opening) 02:07	buy track
2.	The High Dolpo 02:50	buy track
3.	Swimming in the Desert 01:42	buy track
4.	The Letter 02:19	buy track
5.	Tendé 01:23	buy track
6.	Nomads 01:54	buy track
7.	Uncertain Interlude 01:21	buy track
8.	A Story in the Rocks 01:44	buy track
9.	Always the Same Dream 02:03	buy track
10.	Hidden Country 05:08	buy track
11.	So Near the Clouds 02:20	buy track
12.	Tomorrow Another World/Doors of the Teneré 02:29	buy track
13.	Again Appear the Storms 01:27	buy track
14.	Cloud of Sand 01:17	buy track
15.	Amulet 02:11	buy track
16.	Emerald Lake 02:05	buy track
17.	Monster in These Mountains 02:32	buy track
18.	Lost Caravans/Dusk 05:59	buy track
19.	The Orchard and the Well 02:25	buy track
20.	Caravan 02:59	buy track
21.	Bonus (Caravana) 00:37	buy track

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Story's original score for the feature-length 2005 documentary Caravan (Caravana.) Digital downloads remastered by Tim Story in 2023. From the press release:

"It is 4,000 miles from Tim Story's recording studio in Maumee, Ohio to the teeming Spanish capital of Madrid. From there, another four hours by jet to the deserts of Niger. Beyond that, the Himalayas of Nepal are an unimaginable nine-month journey by caravan.

So why choose Story to score Caravan, a feature-length Spanish documentary set in Nepal and north Africa? On the surface, it might seem a curious choice. But a familiarity with Story's uniquely evocative music leads to a more logical explanation.

"I saw a thousand adventures, dunes, sky, stars, and empty spaces", says Caravan's music supervisor Alán Cantos, "and I was only two-thirds into [Tim's] first CD!" Discovered one day on a Madrid radio station, Story's music had stayed with Cantos, prompting him to share it with Caravan's director Gerardo Olivares during one of the film crew's shoots in Niger. It became a kind of soundtrack for their long days and nights in the desert.

From the production company of award-winning director Pedro Almodovar, Caravan weaves together a pair of compelling stories, seen through the eyes of two adolescent boys: Pemba in Nepal, and Rabdoulah in Niger. Each will embark on an adventure that few of us Westerners will ever experience; the centuries-old salt caravans. An economic necessity, and a fast-disappearing rite of passage in their respective cultures, the journeys that Caravan documents will be the first of these boys' young lives. Filled with stunning images of incredible beauty and danger, the documentary also impresses with its subtle portrayal of Pemba and Rabdoulah. Running through this narrative, and connecting these diverse threads with understated power and sensitivity, is the music of Tim Story.

There are the occasional geographic cues in Story's music for Caravan: the tongue drums deftly played by Louie Simon, the oriental flute in one piece or the chants of Tibetan Buddhist monks in another, all of which conjure for the listener a vivid sense of time and place. But this soundtrack is no world music travelogue - the orchestration is primarily Story's unique palette of Western classical instruments and subtle electronics, and the landscapes he renders are the internal landscapes of human experience. Caravan is a film about people, and Story's music searches for the nuances and truths of human nature, not for easy faux-ethnic cliches. Beautifully articulated by Kim Bryden's oboe and Martha Reikow's cello, Story's spare yet rich themes map for us the emotional terrain of Pemba and Rabdoulah's journeys; and in doing so, give us a recording that is strikingly haunting and entirely rewarding, even when removed from the film itself.

Remixed, re-sequenced and in some instances even re-composed for this cd release by Story himself, Caravan shows clearly why the Grammy-nominated composer has been called "a master of electronic chamber music" (CD Review, USA), and "a true artist in the electronic medium" (Victory Review, USA)."

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released January 1, 2005

Composed and produced by Tim Story

Tim Story: Grand piano, electronics, other sounds and treatments

Louis Simon: percussion
Kimberly Bryden: woodwinds
Martha Reikow: cello
Monks of the Namgyal Monastery, Dharamsala, India,: chanting

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Tim Story at Seventh Chance Recording, Maumee, Ohio and Zeta Recording, Holland, Ohio, USA

Graphic Design by Tim Story and Next Year's News, Toledo, Ohio, USA
Photography by Angel López Soto, www.lopez-soto.com
Inset photo by Alán Cantos

All compositions ©2004 Tim Story, published by Seventh Chance Music (BMI)

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