Zbigniew Preisner – ‘Song for the Unification of Europe’

I work with Preisner sometimes. You can’t even understand how his music is written, I don’t think. There’s something so bewitching about the way that he constructs these Eastern Bloc tunes, but in some way, they have melancholia without being sentimental. They make you think of your childhood, they take you back to a place you preferred to be. When you didn’t realise how terrible the world was. It’s both melancholic and nostalgic; these two things aren’t in conflict.