Thom Yorke writes three songs for a Tibet documentary

Thom Yorke has written three songs for When The Dragon Swallowed The Sun, Dirk Simon's documentary about the campaign to free Tibet from Chinese rule. Simon gave the number to the website Twentyfourbit.com, and NME carried it on 5 January.

Two days earlier the Spanish site Efe Eme had reported that Yorke would make the film's soundtrack and was studying Tibetan music for it.

The film has been seven years in the making. Paste reports that Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere are interviewed in it. Philip Glass and Damien Rice are also on the soundtrack, and the Quietus adds Björk, Eric Clapton, UNKLE and Massive Attack's Rob Del Naja.