Max Richter article
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Max Richter article
Our favorite atom smashers get a tiny mention in this article https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/ ... -low-music
Re: Max Richter article
It’s quite nice that they always get name checked in articles about Richter.
It’s a shame Max has only created one decent record in the past 15 years, though. There’s an artist who thrived off of limitations, his early albums for Fatcat did loads of really interesting stuff with string quartet and piano, massively fleshed out with electronics, samples, field recordings and spoken word. Since he’s been given access to orchestras his music’s become either utterly boring and anonymous, or just him reworking the exact same ideas again and again (four or five versions of Sleep, two versions of Voices, a whole album of earlier compositions transposed for larger ensemble, two versions of his Four Seasons, ‘On the Nature of Daylight’ being used and recomposed for every other score he does).
It’s a shame Max has only created one decent record in the past 15 years, though. There’s an artist who thrived off of limitations, his early albums for Fatcat did loads of really interesting stuff with string quartet and piano, massively fleshed out with electronics, samples, field recordings and spoken word. Since he’s been given access to orchestras his music’s become either utterly boring and anonymous, or just him reworking the exact same ideas again and again (four or five versions of Sleep, two versions of Voices, a whole album of earlier compositions transposed for larger ensemble, two versions of his Four Seasons, ‘On the Nature of Daylight’ being used and recomposed for every other score he does).
Re: Max Richter article
Hehe "electronic hippies the Future Sound of London", that's one way to put it.
Let's see what we can see... everybody online, lookin' good