Late Night Synths And Strings

Immunity

Abandon Window (Remaster 2023)

1-13. Vangelis - Tears In Rain

Pablo Altar - Meeity

Choralith: Celestial Cartography is a cinematic sci‑fi synth odyssey that fuses bombast, ritual, and avant‑garde experimentation into a single cosmic journey. Each track is a movement in a larger narrative arc—signals awakening, ancient ignition, hyperdrive storms, mechanical galley rowing across the heavens, and the daily endurance of long voyages.

Primal choral syllables collide with futuristic synths, mechanical pulses grind like oars, and ambient textures stretch into vast cosmic drifts. This is not just music—it’s a mythic voyage through wormholes, dark matter, and celestial hymns, ending in a return transmission that closes the cycle.

Crafted with extended long‑form compositions, Celestial Cartography is designed to immerse listeners in a relentless, awe‑filled journey across the stars.

Return Transmission

Simple

Le Brasier De Tristesse

Hymn to the Immortal Wind

Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn (Remastered)

Solo

Chant

Spaces

Over There, It's Raining

Originally conceived as a Royal Ballet-commissioned collaboration between composer Max Richter, choreographer Wayne McGregor and artist Julian Opie, Max Richter’s gorgeous score to ‘infra’ is deservedly given life of its own in this album-length release from FatCat’s instrumental/orchestral imprint 130701 Records.

The initial setting for ‘infra’ was as a ballet - written in autumn 2008 and premiered in November of the same year at The Royal Opera House in London – although here Richter’s score is given the full scope of a standalone new album. Expanded and extended from the original piece, ‘infra’ comprises music written for piano, electronics and string quintet, including the full performance score as well as material that has subsequently developed from the construction of the album – more a continued reference to the ballet than as a “studio album” in the strictest sense. The composition resonates with Max’s characteristic musical voice – majestic, involved textures; fluent and sweeping melodies; an enigmatic and inherently intellectual understanding of harmonic complexities that compels and mesmerizes.

Richter’s work on the ballet came initially from McGregor’s invitiation, a request for 25 minutes of music for his piece, inspired by T.S. Elliot’s ‘The Wasteland’ and named after the Latin term for ‘below’. This eventually became more collaborative as the project developed – Wayne would ask for Max to extend or alter certain passages of music in accordance with his own amendments to his choreography and concept, whilst logging the whole process for a BBC documentary (broadcast, along with the ballet in full, on BBC2 in November 2008). The dance performance was backed with digital images created by Julian Opie – observational scenes of street life, haunting and curiously balletic despite being of the everyday – and Max’s score is an appropriately close reference to the traveling theme:

“I started thinking about making a piece on the theme of journeys. Like a road movie. Or a traveler’s notebook. Or like the second unit in a film - when the scene has been played, and the image cuts away to the landscape going by. This started me thinking about Schubert's devastating and haunting "Winterreise" (Winter Journey), so I used some melodic material from Schubert as a found object in parts of my new piece.“

The recording of ‘infra’ took place in one day at London’s AIR Studios – recorded onto 2” tape, engineered by Nick Wollage and overseen by Max - before a return to the mixing studio (Max’s StudioKino and Trixx in Berlin) for Max’s typically intricate and lengthy process of crafting completed pieces from the recordings.

Infra

Infra 3

The Debut Album "Nothing Is Still", out now on Ninja Tune.
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Nothing Is Still

Movements (Chapter III)

Riceboy Sleeps

Daníell In The Sea

Daníell In The Sea

Jónsi

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