Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Listen to the Kelly Lee Owens Remix: DG.lnk.to/TranquilityBase_KellyLeeOwens
“SLEEP: Tranquility Base” is a revision which offers a glimpse into the original SLEEP-material from an electronic perspective. “Tranquility Base” is the site on the Moon where, in July 1969, humans landed and walked on a celestial body other than Earth for the first time. With this in mind, the EP functions as a vessel that disconnects and travels through the body of work, allowing art to provide something which resembles peace within ourselves. – Max Richter
“When I first heard the vocal in this track, it moved me to tears, so I wanted to create a reworking where that became the centrepiece with everything else swirling around it.
The vocal felt both ancient and as though it was casting spells on the future. Ultimately, nothing is more direct emotionally than the human voice, so I added layers of my own strings, synths and percussion to accentuate that emotion.” - Kelly Lee Owens
“SLEEP is a kind of counter argument to what’s going on in the world. [My partner] Yulia and I have talked about it as protest music. It’s a sort of alternative proposition to how things could be or how things are… towards the world we’re living in and helps to shine a light on the things we can do better. The original thing which made us want to make this piece was a sense of being oversaturated – with data, with information – overstimulated… All of that is just worse now, there’s more of the same – much more of the same – and that makes the piece continually relevant.” – Max Richter
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Listen to the Kelly Lee Owens Remix: DG.lnk.to/TranquilityBase_KellyLeeOwens
“SLEEP: Tranquility Base” is a revision which offers a glimpse into the original SLEEP-material from an electronic perspective. “Tranquility Base” is the site on the Moon where, in July 1969, humans landed and walked on a celestial body other than Earth for the first time. With this in mind, the EP functions as a vessel that disconnects and travels through the body of work, allowing art to provide something which resembles peace within ourselves. – Max Richter
“When I first heard the vocal in this track, it moved me to tears, so I wanted to create a reworking where that became the centrepiece with everything else swirling around it.
The vocal felt both ancient and as though it was casting spells on the future. Ultimately, nothing is more direct emotionally than the human voice, so I added layers of my own strings, synths and percussion to accentuate that emotion.” - Kelly Lee Owens
“SLEEP is a kind of counter argument to what’s going on in the world. [My partner] Yulia and I have talked about it as protest music. It’s a sort of alternative proposition to how things could be or how things are… towards the world we’re living in and helps to shine a light on the things we can do better. The original thing which made us want to make this piece was a sense of being oversaturated – with data, with information – overstimulated… All of that is just worse now, there’s more of the same – much more of the same – and that makes the piece continually relevant.” – Max Richter
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