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A Drone And A Drum: Lisa Gerrard's Favourite Music
Lottie Brazier , June 23rd, 2021 08:57

From falling into the ‘massive abyss’ of Alfred Schnittke, to the ‘silly and lovely’ Electric Light Orchestra, Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance delivers Lottie Brazier a guide to her thirteen favourite pieces of music

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Hans Zimmer - The Thin Red Line: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

I think that this is his best work, I absolutely adore this album. It was written for a war film, and to me that is such an internal journey of questions like: “What of all the meanings of why do we exist? Why do we go to war? What is it that we actually dream about when we are at war, out there on those battlefields?” It’s got all that in there, it’s got a divide between reality and living on the absolute edge of your dreams. I feel that so much in all of that music; it’s so fatalistic, which I love.