Former assistant of Pierre Henry, Éliane Radigue lived in the United States at the end of the Sixties and fully benefitted from her meetings with experimental movements and minimalists, at that time much ignored on the european side of the Atlantic (one thinks of Alvin Lucier). In the Seventies she discovered Tibetan Buddhism and settled her musical work upon harmonies and drones using one of the very first electronic synthetizer. Devoted to the dialogues of Tibetan ascetic Milarepa with his disciples (texts recited in Tibetan by Lama Kunga Rinpoche and in English by composer Robert Ashley), Mila’s Journey… is a slow sound sculpture of upstroke volutes, evolutionary layers, breaths and voices.
Mila's Journey
Inspired by a Dream
Lovely Music - LCD 2002