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E. REIJSEGER/W. HERZOG
REQUIEM FOR A DYING PLANET

extraordinary expectations to create a soundtrack for very special stories about the airship engeneer Dr. Graham Dorrington in Guyana (The White Diamond) and the fiction about an axceptional planet (The Wild Blue Yonder).
Werner Herzog found what he was looking for: "I want to use imagery and sound in a way you have never before experienced."
This Musical vision led to extraordinary recording session in Paris, Ludwigsburg and Munich. Herzog was joined by Dutch cellist ERNST REIJSEGER, Senegalese singer MOLA SYLLA, and the Voches de Sardinia called CUNCORDU E TENORE DE OROSEI.
An initially unlikely assemblage became a powerful and extraordinary work, a very original score was produced.
Now this project became also a live cinema-concert that makes living the two films’ magic atmosphere. The encounter between author-musicians and images on the screen becomes a multi-media show of image and sound. The final effect is a trance out of space and time. It is a virtuous link and a brave cohesion of the north worlds and the south ones, a tie between the vanguard jazz and the farest roots of sound, in an unthinkable wedding.

Ernst Reijseger (Bussum NL, 1954) starts playing the cello at the age of eight. From the early 70s he becomes involved in improvised music, playing with Sean Bergin, Martin van Duynhoven, Derek Bailey, Michael Moore, Alan Purves, and Franky Douglas.
He is a long-time member of the Theo Loevendie Consort, the Guus Janssen Septet and the Amsterdam String Trio. In 1985 he receives the major Dutch jazz-award, the Boy Edgar Prijs "because he is an important innovator in the field of improvised music...