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What we say
 This record left our BRIAN D feeling ecstatic.
Well well well. Mr Max Richter has made a pop album! Actually, it's only pop in so far that the songs are the length of classic punk hits like 'Love Song' by The Damned or 'Oh Shit!' by Buzzcocks. But the music. Oh the music. It really couldn't be anyone else. '24 Postcards in Full Colour' is a fine collection of fleeting vignettes, brief candles as Aldous Huxley once commented. wistful piano sketches, slightly amorphous & detached, like little jingles for a profound day in the life of an introverted bassett hound. When the strings hit, 10 mins in, your spine melts in all the usual places and you're so glad this wonderful man is here to soothe our troubled lives with his affecting soundscapes. Phil's main gripe with this album is that the songs are too short and aren't allowed to develop. That's where your imagination comes in for these babies are merely teasing snatches of intoxicating mood music. It's like channel hopping through 24 great stations and the merest suggestion of each track is hugely rewarding. It's not all piano 'n' strings. 'In Louisville at 7' is a sweet lo-fi guitar instrumental overlaid with field recordings and submerged in the ether of distortion, then the succeeding tune sounds like Terry Riley jamming with MBV!! He flirts with many shifting styles & tones over the duration leaving his busy pallette full of possibilities for the future! I'm really happy with this album, it's his first to feature on both vinyl & weirdly enough as ringtones which given the nature of most people's choice of tinnitus inducing idiocy is a welcome relief! Utterly peerless in my eyes (but with Leeds' Gareth S. Brown snapping at his heels !) this could only be AOTW....
What the label says:
Max Richter most concise work to date, ‘24 Postcards In Full Colour’
may also be his most compelling and coherent record, working as a
collection of varied, compelling miniatures. A dazzling conceptual
exercise of great beauty and emotional resonance.
The album was
originally conceived as a project to experiment with composition based
around ringtones, so while these are to an extent self-contained
pieces, the album as a whole holds together by the use of shared
material, or reprises, and works as a tracklist in almost any order you
should choose.
A former member of contemporary classical ensemble
Piano Circus, commissioning and performing works by Arvo Part, Brian
Eno, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich, Max was also pivotal in developing
Piano Circus’ use of live sampling. |
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