eliane radigue - jetsun mila (lovely music)

eliane radigue is known artist in the fields of drone related music. born in paris, she studied electro-acoustic music techniques under the direction of pierre schaeffer and pierre henry. i'm familiar with her 'adnos' release, in her music she uses arp synthesizer and recording tapes. she has become a tibetan buddhist in 1975 when stopped composing for some time and when getting back to music in 1979 she continued to work with the arp synthesizer, which has become her signature. 'jetsun mila' is one of her works inspired by the tibetan poet and yogi milarepa and another cd on the same theme is 'songs of milarepa', released also by lovely music. eliane radigue received a "commande de l'etat" from the french government to compose 'jetsun mila' and the piece was originally performed, recorded and produced by the artist in 1986. the music on this double cd release is separated on both cds and there's one longer piece on each cd, the second continuing where the first ends. the atmosphere on both of the cds is very calm, a bit more unsettling on the second cd, with it's sensibility it is in many aspects like ambient music, it has a light atmospheric sense and a distinctive depth of it's own. this music is very enjoyable for listening and also it's poetic and thinking about that, while listening to it, the conclusion would be (from a thinker's point of view or perspective) that the music on 'jetsun mila' can be perceived as poetry, in a very subtle and wide meaning characteristic about that word. (br)