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riginally released in 2002, Max Richter's out-of-print debut, Memoryhouse, gets a long overdue re-release, shedding light on a blank spot in the composer's career. The album is a formative, somewhat derivative experience, one filled with half-formed ideas and moments of exquisite beauty, a clear omen of the better work to...
Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Colour -
While some phone calls carry tear-inducing messages, what if the ringtones themselves caused welling up? Scottish composer/pianist Max Richter takes up the challenge of creating 24 brief works that can haunt you after their fleeting tones disperse. Richter’s notes about the album underline our current tendency to lose the musical...
Max Richter Crafts a Cell Phone Symphony -
Talking with avant-garde post-classical composer Max Richter about his influences is truly inspiring. In a single breath, he’s able to make connections between Romantic music of the 1800s and the work of Steve Reich and John Cage, all the way through Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, and Kraftwerk...
Max Richter at (le) Poisson Rouge - I finally made my way over to the new(ish) venue (le) Poisson Rouge in the West Village. Let me tell you it is niiiice. I love the decor, from the painting on the walls to the cloth covered chairs, and the sight lines and sound are great. This was all...
S. - Sylvain Chauveau is well known by now for his pioneering modern classical compositions but S., his latest EP and first release for the Type label, explores altogether more experimental territory. S. presents itself as a meticulously "designed" release; a repeated alternation of slow-boiling ambient and minimal solo piano-phrase pieces that...
Johann Johannsson - Fordlandia -
For those unfamiliar with Johann Johannsson’s output, he works equally comfortably with symphony orchestras and samplers to create impossibly expansive, moving, often desolate and unerringly beautiful compositions. Fordlandia is the second in a proposed trio of aural delights from Icelandic composer Johann Johannson. The first was IBM 1401, A User’s...
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