Max Richter: Songs From Before

Max Richter

1. Song 4:12 2. Flowers for Yulia 6:50 3. Fragment 1:41 4. Harmonium 4:23 5. Ionosphere 1:25 6. Autumn Music 1 3:54 7. Time Passing 1:51 8. Sunlight 5:35 9. Lullaby 0:53 10. Autumn Music 2 3:49 11. Verses 1:43 12. From the Rue Vilin 1:02

Beautifully recorded and cinematic in scope, ‘Songs From Before’ once again carries a pensive, emotionally resonant tone. Punctuated by Robert Wyatt’s distinctive, understated readings of Haruki Murakami’s text, the music evokes forgotten memories or lost histories, a series of bittersweet articulations that seem suspended somewhere between a dreamy sense of awe and melancholia. The title refers to the fact that, as well as this being a kind of specimen case of music written over a long period, the album carries other music inside it - with the sources ranging from music between 5 and 300 years old - either used as starting points for Max’s own writing, or submerged deep within.

Price: $16.98