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Taken from ‘The Blue Notebooks’ – originally released in 2004, now re-released with additional bonus content: dg.lnk.to/Richter-TheBlueNotebooks
Max Richter’s The Blue Notebooks draws from Kafka’s The Blue Octavo Notebooks, where Kafka’s reflections on alienation and doubt resonate with the themes of the record. Originally released in 2004, The Blue Notebooks was conceived as a “protest record, a response to what was happening in politics around the build-up to the Iraq war where I was really struck with doubt about what was happening. And I thought about Kafka, who’s the patron saint of doubt, and I thought about making a piece which expressed everything, so we recorded this.”
The album's narration features Tilda Swinton, who has appeared live with Max several times, including their standout performance opening Glastonbury’s Park Stage in 2023. Now, Richter is bringing this iconic work to audiences on his world tour.
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Taken from ‘The Blue Notebooks’ – originally released in 2004, now re-released with additional bonus content: dg.lnk.to/Richter-TheBlueNotebooks
Max Richter’s The Blue Notebooks draws from Kafka’s The Blue Octavo Notebooks, where Kafka’s reflections on alienation and doubt resonate with the themes of the record. Originally released in 2004, The Blue Notebooks was conceived as a “protest record, a response to what was happening in politics around the build-up to the Iraq war where I was really struck with doubt about what was happening. And I thought about Kafka, who’s the patron saint of doubt, and I thought about making a piece which expressed everything, so we recorded this.”
The album's narration features Tilda Swinton, who has appeared live with Max several times, including their standout performance opening Glastonbury’s Park Stage in 2023. Now, Richter is bringing this iconic work to audiences on his world tour.
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![Max Richter - Of The Sky (Taken from the Hamnet Soundtrack) [Official Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cvtbeqfD0Bo/mqdefault.jpg "Max Richter - Of The Sky (Taken from the Hamnet Soundtrack) [Official Audio]
Of The Sky taken from Max Richters Hamnet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Available everywhere now: https://maxrichter.lnk.to/hamnetID
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Max Richter’s ethereal score for Hamnet (original motion picture soundtrack), the untold love story that inspired Shakespeares greatest masterpiece. From Academy Award winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless classic, Hamlet - featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. Based on the Sunday Times Bestseller by Maggie OFarrell.
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![Max Richter - An Abysm of Time (Taken from the Hamnet Soundtrack) [Official Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/df0USpWbfbw/mqdefault.jpg "Max Richter - An Abysm of Time (Taken from the Hamnet Soundtrack) [Official Audio]
An Abysm of Time taken from Max Richters Hamnet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Available everywhere now: https://maxrichter.lnk.to/hamnetID
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Max Richter’s ethereal score for Hamnet (original motion picture soundtrack), the untold love story that inspired Shakespeares greatest masterpiece. From Academy Award winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless classic, Hamlet - featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. Based on the Sunday Times Bestseller by Maggie OFarrell.
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![Max Richter - Patterns / Solo Pt. 3 (Faded) [Official Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eDoDlMCPnfM/mqdefault.jpg "Max Richter - Patterns / Solo Pt. 3 (Faded) [Official Audio]
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“It’s like SLEEP distilled.” That’s how Max Richter describes Sleep Circle, his new album marking the tenth anniversary of his landmark project SLEEP. Sleep Circle is a hallucinatory 90-minute trip into the hypnagogic state – the liminal space between wakefulness and sleep in which dreams begin to take shape. The process of choosing Sleep Circle’s 24 tracks was informed by the insights Richter gained from live performances of an abridged version of his monumental opus. With its more intimate and focused approach to SLEEP, the new album highlights compositions such as “Dream 11 / Moth-Like Stars” and “Non-Eternal” in a structural arc that mirrors the natural 90-minute REM cycle. Recorded at Studio Richter Mahr in Oxfordshire, Sleep Circle showcases Max Richter’s unique ability to translate profound human experience into music, offering listeners a space to slow down and reconnect with their inner selves.
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![Max Richter - Inward (Taken from the Hamnet Soundtrack) [Official Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eGrux-6u0Jk/mqdefault.jpg "Max Richter - Inward (Taken from the Hamnet Soundtrack) [Official Audio]
Inward taken from Max Richters Hamnet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Available everywhere now: https://maxrichter.lnk.to/hamnetID
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Max Richter’s ethereal score for Hamnet (original motion picture soundtrack), the untold love story that inspired Shakespeares greatest masterpiece. From Academy Award winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless classic, Hamlet - featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. Based on the Sunday Times Bestseller by Maggie OFarrell.
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![Max Richter - Return 2 (song) | [Piano Version]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eVgRfHxlQiA/mqdefault.jpg "Max Richter - Return 2 (song) | [Piano Version]
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For this new EP, SLEEP: Piano Edition, Max Richter has focused on his own instrument and created three extended reimagined tracks for solo piano.
For Richter, the piano is a sketch pad – the starting point for new creative ventures, enabling subconscious ideas to float up to the surface as he begins composing. As he notes, the instrument also plays a key role in SLEEP: “One of the two main themes is very slow-moving, pulsed piano music – the instrument is one of the main characters in the piece.” It was therefore a natural choice to go back to the keyboard and strip certain sections of the larger work down to their basic structures.
SLEEP: Piano Edition has the same spacious and immersive qualities as its epic parent work. Whether we listen to one track or the seamless flow of all three, the slow, steady rhythms, repetitions and subtle transformations offer a sense of familiarity and security.
“SLEEP is a piece about finding a place to pause, a place to rest,” concludes the composer. “Because even though the world is very exciting, it’s also now very exhausting, especially psychologically, with the advent of 24-hour news, social media, the internet completely saturating our lives. We’re beset by ecological, social, political, troubles. Obviously, the best way we can deal with these is to have a clear mind. In order to do that, we need to find ways to kind of settle our minds down. And SLEEP offers one such opportunity.”
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![Max Richter - Return Pt.1 (Faded) [Official Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ecuF76Y190A/mqdefault.jpg "Max Richter - Return Pt.1 (Faded) [Official Audio]
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“It’s like SLEEP distilled.” That’s how Max Richter describes Sleep Circle, his new album marking the tenth anniversary of his landmark project SLEEP. Sleep Circle is a hallucinatory 90-minute trip into the hypnagogic state – the liminal space between wakefulness and sleep in which dreams begin to take shape. The process of choosing Sleep Circle’s 24 tracks was informed by the insights Richter gained from live performances of an abridged version of his monumental opus. With its more intimate and focused approach to SLEEP, the new album highlights compositions such as “Dream 11 / Moth-Like Stars” and “Non-Eternal” in a structural arc that mirrors the natural 90-minute REM cycle. Recorded at Studio Richter Mahr in Oxfordshire, Sleep Circle showcases Max Richter’s unique ability to translate profound human experience into music, offering listeners a space to slow down and reconnect with their inner selves.
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![Max Richter - Of The Undiscovered Country (Taken from the Hamnet Soundtrack) [Official Audio]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/euKPyHwlkoE/mqdefault.jpg "Max Richter - Of The Undiscovered Country (Taken from the Hamnet Soundtrack) [Official Audio]
Of The Undiscovered Country taken from Max Richters Hamnet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). Available everywhere now: https://maxrichter.lnk.to/hamnetID
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Max Richter’s ethereal score for Hamnet (original motion picture soundtrack), the untold love story that inspired Shakespeares greatest masterpiece. From Academy Award winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless classic, Hamlet - featuring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. Based on the Sunday Times Bestseller by Maggie OFarrell.
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