Music Recording

After more than a year of working on the music, Anna Drubich finally recorded it in Hyperion Studio in LA in the US. Then she sent us the files via dropbox and now it's Samir Nabil's job to mix them with the film's audio. Like many of our dear crew, Anna has been there since the beginning when the film was divided into 6 segments. Back then we worked on the music of each segment as a separate short film but with a common theme between the 6 of them. Then when the segments were combined together later resulting in one film, we had to work on the music all over again.

The final music was played by Anna herself on piano, Evgeny Tonkha on cello, Nathan Matthew David on guitar and Leo Chelyapov on both accordion and duduk. Anna also had to record their names for us as well so that we write them correctly in Arabic in the film's final credits. Luckily all the Russian sounds that sound unfamiliar in English existed in Arabic :)

Anna with Nathan in the recording session

Leo Chelyapov is playing on duduk

Evgeny Tonkha and his cello

Anna Drubich: Our Music Composer

Since we are in post production now we had to think about music. We believe it is the most important thing to put everything right together and create a certain mood for the whole film. We started looking for music composers in Alexandria first but we couldn't find someone that we all like or someone who is interested in working on more than one segment or two. Then we decided to look for a music composer through the internet. Everybody thought that we have no chance but I believed that we should give it a try. We checked the USC scoring for motion pictures and television program, listened to some great work and totally fell in love with Anna Drubich's work. Anna is a Russian music composer who studied in the US and won several awards in major festivals in Russia. She was our first choice and we were really really lucky when she accepted working with us. We were even more lucky to know that she is volunteering like the rest of us and the whole crew and cast. We sent her the rough cut and now we are working together on the music. It's another dream coming true. Of course we can't find a better way to communicate than Skype and today we had our first video call. God bless the internet, Google and Skype :)

Talking about the film's music in a video call with Anna Drubich