Caldera Records proudly presents Loek Dikker’s scores for the films Iris from 1987 and Felice… Felice… from 1998.

Loek Dikker’s score for Iris proved central to the film’s impact. The composer had started writing for film only a few years before. The buoyant main title – modeled on a Latin American bolero – initially suggests lightness. For Dikker, it expressed the main character Iris’s vitality. As hostility towards her mounts, the music darkens. It reflects the unease of her rural surroundings. In the finale, acceptance brings the bolero back. It completes the arc.

Peter Delpeut’s film Felice… Felice…, loosely inspired by Felice Beato, explores the tension between illusion and truth. Composer Loek Dikker had the difficult task of developing music that captures Beato’s restlessness, his hope and desire, while at the same time providing the appropriate musical accompaniment for the photographs of a lost place. Loek Dikker sought a balance between the East and the West. He wanted his music to flow almost imperceptibly.

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