A Drone And A Drum: Lisa Gerrard's Favourite Music | Page 14 of 14 | The Quietus

Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

13. Hans ZimmerThe 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.

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