Deluxe 180gm vinyl LP pressing of this 2006 Max Richter album, Punctuated by Robert Wyatt's distinctive, understated readings of Haruki Murakami's, 'Songs From Before' utilizes piano, cello, violin and viola, with Max playing piano, mixing and producing. The music evokes forgotten memories or lost histories, a series of bittersweet articulations that seem suspended somewhere between a dreamy sense of awe and melancholia. Fat Cat.
