Orestes

A 1 track ambient album (50m 29s) — released June 2nd 2014 on Kontinental

Archival electronics from the Kontinental label, with the third release in their series of reissued recordings from Dutch electronic pioneer Henk Badings.

'Orestes' is a radiophonic opera, first aired in 1954, and credited as being the first electronic music composition in Dutch history - combining musique concrète and acoustic instruments, the opera won the Prix Italia in 1954 and was later broadcast in an English translation by the BBC.

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