Andrey Dergatchev

Andrey Dergatchev, soundtrack creator, was born in 1969 in Astrakhan, Russia, and has worked variously as a dancer, light and sound designer, musician and actor as well as composer of music for film, video and ballet. Dergatchev's use of modern technology is so organic that when a soft, minimalist electric piano pattern blends with the sound of engines on "Port" it makes perfect sense. In many ways an extension of Eno's work, in particular Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks (EG, 1983), Dergatchev's music for The Return should be considered less as a manifestation of traditional musical concerns, more as an enveloping audioscape. Film soundtracks are often presented as short and discrete sound bytes, but the beauty of The Return is that it's a more or less continuous fifty minutes of music, with its own emotional and narrative arc.