For the Caravaggio 1610 soundtrack, Simon Fisher Turner weaves some lovely soundscapes using flamenco guitar, lute, harpsicord, recorder and other instruments along with various ambient sounds recorded whilst making the movie in the UK and collecting background sound effects in Italy. The result is a tapestry of lovely layered pieces of music and sounds in which to lose yourself...

Also included on the CD are four new versions of tracks from the soundtrack, recorded in 2005 by Simon Fisher Turner.

Michelangelo Caravaggio - the master of dark shadows - lies dying in Porto Ercole, north of Rome one hot July day in 1610 - his early death seals a legend. Twenty years before, at the age of 17, he had run away from home to seek his fortune in Rome. Penniless and starving on the streets, his fortunes turned when he was spotted selling paintings by Francisco del Monte, a Florentine cardinal who was president of the painters academy of St Luke. Under his patronage, Michele's rise to fame was meteoric, bringing psychological stress, an increasingly wild and dissolute life, drunken brawls, knife fights and finally, in 1606, the murder of Ranuccio Thomasoni. For ten years he was the scandal of Rome, revolutionising painting. He knocked the saints out of the skies, stole and smelted their haloes, used only recognisable prostitutes and street boys for his models, flaunting his bisexuality in a series of homoerotic pin ups of handsome boys posing knowingly as St John. After his early death his reputation floundered and has only recovered since the 1950s.

Packaging & Liner Notes
CD: Standard jewel case. 8 page booklet containing short Derek Jarman bio, memories of Jarman from Simon Fisher Turner and list of musicians involved.