Eliane Radigue's Songs of Milarepa

Radio 3's Fifty Modern Classics by BBC

Nov 11, 201211:24Music

Author and journalist Rob Young nominates French composer Eliane Radigue's Songs of Milarepa, which combines drone-like electronics with the voices of Lama Kunga Rinpoche and Robert Ashley singing and reading the words o...

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