On those occasions when we’re gifted the experience of something truly purposeful and moving in art and music, may we seize the opportunity entirely, to speak with truthful enthusiasm, passion, and promise. As such, I can whole-heartedly encourage you to spend some time, and I assure the value of, listening and exploring in full, The Price Of Salt.
A brand new original motion picture soundtrack, from the ever-diverse composer and multi-instrumentalist Javier Rodriguez, The Price Of Salt employs a fiercely versatile collection of soundscapes, from the tribal and ambient, to the evocative, euphoric and deep.
Its meaning is one of compelling realism, struggle, strength, and resilience. The details fascinate, and the music provides the perfect accompaniment to your consideration of it.
This is the story of Lac Rose – The Pink Lake – a rose-tinted body of water in Senegal, renowned for its hypersaline depths, yielding a salt so pure and abundant that its community has thrived beside it for centuries. The people here work hard, but only the men should mine the salt, a long-standing rule – its extraordinary saline content has been linked to complications in pregnancy for women.
However, as needs must in many communities and parts of the world, rules are often broken, and The Price Of Salt takes us through thoughts and scenes of witnessing a woman, seven months pregnant, hard at work – wading through the water, carrying a heavy basket of salt.