“Edge of Darkness” became darker with Agha Jalal’s departure/ this mysterious and attractive sound! – Mehr news agency Iran and world’s news
Mehr News Agency – Art Group – Alireza Saeedi: The function of the title is something similar to a book cover, whose designer tries to inform the audience of a work by selecting elements, forms and arrangements with the help of graphics and music. The conditions that he presents to the audience are sometimes very careful, thoughtful and calculated, and sometimes they are made so coldly and based on the fulfillment of a mandatory task that they take the viewer away from the basis of a visual effect.
What became an excuse to return to the keyword “credits” once again is a review of the most lasting and memorable music related to some programs and movies and television works, which for many audiences include bitter and sweet memories, and refer to them again for us every Circumstances can bring a world of memories. The memory game, which after its launch and publication in Nowruz, was welcomed by 1400 audiences, prompted us to entrust our souls and minds to it in the form of a weekly memory game on Fridays every week, and from its passage to the years when we are better than these troubled days. It was, let’s go.
“Memories with lasting titles” is the title of a series of archival reports with the same approach, which you can follow on a weekly basis in the art group of Mehr News Agency.
In the sixty-eighth issue of this media narrative, on the pretext of the death of Jalal Maki, the late and lasting artist of dubbing, we went to the title music of the television series “Edge of Darkness” directed by Martin Campbell and composed by Eric Clapton and Michael Carmen, which was released in 1985. It was produced in 1364. A very attractive series with its long-lasting music, the audible and lasting dubbing of the late Jalal Maggi and a number of other valuable dubbing artists sent a series to the air of One Sima network of those years, which can undoubtedly be considered as one of the most memorable and popular series. He mentioned foreign collections of the sixties and seventies.
This memory-making and permanence has taken on a different color when these days the voice-over and broadcasting community of our country is mourning the death of a painful artist named Jalal Magi, whose loss is undoubtedly one of the saddest and most mournful events related to the cultural and artistic activities of the country. will be It is a very worrying situation that during these years, in the short term, the Iranian dubbing community is empty of the presence of great people in this field, and it includes various dimensions that if we do not think of filling these vacancies as soon as possible, the Iranian dubbing in The edge of pure darkness is placed in a situation that becomes darker and darker as the glory of officials goes.
Jalal Maggi (Ronald Craven), Hossein Irfani (Darius Jadberg), Manouchehr Nowzari (Henry Harcourt), Georges Petrisi (Jerry Grogan), Khosrow Mashhirgaran (title announcer), Minughznavi (Emma Craven), Noshabeh Amiri (Emma’s child), Ataullah Kamli ( James Godbolt), Iraj Rezaei (Pendleton), Nasser Nizami (Rass), Valiullah Momeni (Chief of Sheriff), Javad Al-Mehjikian, Toraj Mehrzadian, Toraj Nasr, Amir Hoshang Negaei, Zohra Shokofande, Nasser Ahmadi, Bahram Zand, Akbar Manani, Mohammad Ebadi were the artists who appeared in the dubbing of the series as Seda Piseh.
Clapton is certainly still one of the best musicians in the world, and it was not known if he did not participate in the music of the “Edge of Darkness” series. The six-episode mini-series “Edge of Darkness” is the story of an English student girl who is active in anti-nuclear movements and one night “apparently” is murdered instead of her father. The girl’s father, who is a police officer himself, ignores the police investigation and investigates to find out the details of this murder. The father (Inspector Craven) finds his head in one of the atomic warehouses. While director Martin Campbell, producer Michael Waring, writer Troy Kennedy Martin, Bob Peck, Joan Valley, Jordan Baker, Chalerzky, Ian MacNeice, Gordon Warmby, Roy Heather (actors), Eric Clapton and Michael Keiman ( music) were some of the production factors of this English series.
But definitely, one of the nostalgias of this series, regardless of the content and lasting dubbing, is its unique title music, which is without a doubt one of the most high-quality and lasting melodies left behind by the foreign series of those years. The music that was so noticed that Eric Clapton, the legendary musician of the music world, and Michael Carman, the composers of this collection, in addition to receiving the best composition work at the “BAFTA” world award, also received the “Ivor Novelloy” best songwriting and composition award for this political series. He made a policeman of himself.
The music, with its enchanting performances, evokes memories of the magic box of television that Eric Clapton and his colleagues made in this project for their countless audiences and fans. Musics that may be the mortar and foundation of the memories left from an era where every bit of its moments and events, both good and bad, were in the true sense of the word “memory” and we can no longer have examples like the sixties in these difficult years. and difficult to find. The music, as evidenced by what they wrote about the music of the “Edge of Darkness” series, was Eric Clapton’s first experience composing for a work.
This artist, who at the end of his life was not as good as he should have been and experienced an awkward life in this world, was in 1985 when he attended the screening of the movie “Brazil” directed by Terry Gilliam and composed by Carmen with his artist friend Michael Carmen. He was contacted by the BBC to create the soundtrack for the “Edge of Darkness” series, and Clapton subsequently asked Carmen to help and accompany him in this work.
Fortunately, due to the abilities of this artist as well as the technical and content structure of the work, the situation progressed in such a way that the TV series “Leba Tariki” was welcomed by the audience and critics, and as a result, it was the soundtrack of the series that was described and praised a lot. And within a few short weeks, it opened its place at the top of the British music charts. A space that later led to the production of a music album and provided a space for the producers of this project that Eric Clapton used as one of the most popular works in his concerts and performances as one of the most record-breaking Grammy Awards.
Eric Clapton is one of the artists who reviewed his works in various fields such as playing, singing, songwriting and composing in the field of rock and blues music. The conditions for an artist like him with all the small and big edges of his ups and downs life can include different dimensions.
Certainly, the title music of the series Labh Taraki is one of the dozens of bright spots of his professional life in the field of music, which after several decades can still be considered as one of the best works of music in the world in the field of soundtracks of series and as a work Let it remain a lasting museum in minds and memories.
Although this music creates listening conditions for the audience in the field of composition, which is a violent and stressful musical work, but these symbols and signs are attractive for watching an adventurous work, which is a symbol of modern man’s entry into the modern and violent life that this For years, all the people of the world have faced it in some way. The music that is one of the most harmonious melodies and tunes produced in the field of title music.
Clapton is certainly still one of the best composers in the world, and it was not clear if he did not participate in the music of the “Edge of Darkness” series, would we be able to remember that series regardless of the glory of his honorable position?