Inspired by the MaddAddam trilogy of Margaret Atwood, Max Richter’s latest is based on a score of his third collaboration with ballet choreographer Wayne McGregor following Infra (2008) and Woolf Works (2015), and is a representation of a world becoming devoured by industrial technology and commercial hostility.
In this developing dystopia, the survival of human emotions and of the natural environment are in doubt, but Richter’s emphasis on the evolution of a new humanity in response to mechanised terror is clear and heartening.
The opening track, “Wave After Wave”, stresses the notion of transformation as the beautiful theme from “Europe, After the Rain” from his first album, Memoryhouse (2002), is — nearly…
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Composer and pianist Max Richter’s album Sleep Circle is the newly recorded and abridged version of Richter’s 2015 project Sleep. Sleep Circle is informed by the experience of his concert performances of the original album.
From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao,