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Soundtrack from Emir Kusturica's Arizona Dream by Goran Bregović featuring the vocals and lyrics of Iggy Pop on tracks 1, 4 & 6 and the lyrics of Emir Kusturica as well as the vocals of Iggy Pop on track 10. In the film, apart from the music on soundtrack, there are also three songs of Django Reinhardt.[1]

Arizona Dream
Soundtrack album by Goran Bregović
Released	1993
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	46:08
Label	Mercury Records

Song facts

The song "This is a film" quotes a character from the novel Chevengur by a Russian writer Andrei Platonov: "He would show Zakhar Pavlovich the eyes of a dead fish and say, 'Look-there's wisdom! A fish stands between life and death, so that he's dumb and expressionless. I mean even a calf thinks, but a fish, no. It already knows everything". Kusturica acknowledged this in one of his interviews[2]

The melody of the songs "This is a film" and "In the Deathcar" is a variation of Enrico Macias song "Solenzara".

The melody of "Dreams" is a variation of the traditional Bulgarian-Macedonian folklore song "Зайди, зайди, ясно слънце" (Set, Set, Oh, Bright Sun).

The melody of "Gypsy Reggae" is a variation of the song "The Streets of Cairo" by James Thornton .

Track listing

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
France (SNEP)[3]	2× Gold	200,000*
* Sales figures based on certification alone.

References

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