Before The Rain soundtrack

Anastasia (Macedonian: Анастасија, transliterated Anastasija) is a Macedonian music group. The band was formed in 1987 as Apokrifna Realnost and changed their name to Anatasia in 1989. Their members are:

Goran Trajkoski (ex Saraceni, Padot na Vizantija, Mizar)
Zlatko Origjanski (ex Lola V. Stain)
Zoran Spasovski (ex Mizar, Aporea)

Their music is a blend combining Byzantine past, through Eastern Orthodox Church music with a rich gamut of ethnic Macedonian music rhythms.Their instrumental palette features traditional instruments such as kaval, tapan, gajda, psaltir, and tarabuka, fused with electronic soundscapes and Byzantine chants and vocals. They used an old melodic vocabulary belonging to a rich tradition, but the language they spoke was new. The approach they took breathed new life into this tradition in a way that only few others can

Anastasia have written several music scores for films, theater performances and TV programs. Their soundtrack for the Academy Award nominated movie Before the Rain was released in 1994 by Polygram and sold thousands of copies worldwide.

The album has a meditative feeling, and even though different moods prevail, the playing is lyrical, sensitive, and subtle. It opens mysteriously with "Time Never Dies," a track with a dreamy intro played on psaltir and distant clay pot percussion that suddenly bursts in the middle. And that sets the tone really for all that is to follow throughout the album. The beauty of it is captured both through simple but impressive melodies as well as dense and mysterious sound worlds and textures.