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A collection of Max's recent filmscore work, together with some tracks from the albums which have recently been featured in the cinema.

The list includes music from

Waltz With Bashir - dir. Ari Folman
Shutter Island - dir. Martin Scorsese
Sarah's Key - dir. Gilles Paquet-Brenner
How To DIe In Oregon - dir. Peter Richardson
Die Fremde - dir. Feo Aladag
Perfect Sense - dir. David Mackenzie
Impardonnables - dir. Andre Techine
LA Prima Linea - dir. Renato Da Maria
Stranger Than Fiction - dir. Marc Forster
Elegy - dir. Isabel Croixet

Trailers can be seen on Max's Youtube channel 

http://www.youtube.com/user/maxrichtermusic#p/c/FF3D3011F7C48FE5



FILM MUSIC

Requiem for a Dream

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Islands: Essential Einaudi is the first time that all of Einaudi's best known music appears in a single collection. It’s available as both a single disc and special double disc version. Islands also includes new tracks The Earth Prelude and High Heels as well as two new remixes of Lady Labyrinth and Eros.

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A collection of Max's recent filmscore work, together with some tracks from the albums which have recently been featured in various feature films.

STRANGER THAN FICTION / Marc Forster - On the nature of daylight

DIE FREMDE / Feo Aladag - Umay travelling

WALTZ WITH BASHIR / Ari Folman - The Haunted Ocean 1

IMPARDONNABLES / Andre Techine - End Title

WALTZ WITH BASHIR / Ari Folman - I Swam Out To Sea   Return

WALTZ WITH BASHIR / Ari Folman - Andante   Reflection (End Title)

HOW TO DIE IN OREGON / Peter Richardson - Endings

heres my gym class heroes remix that i did.. i really love the second drop thats my favorite part.. i hope you all like this.. its the instrumental version which will be released along with the one with vox in august or something.. also to everyone this isnt moombahton this is jump up style shit so dont fucking try and yell at me for sayin this aint moombahton cause i know it aint

Gym Class Heroes - Stereo Hearts Feat. Adam Levine (Dillon Francis Remix) INSTRUMENTAL

Icelandic composer Ólafur Arnalds set to release his first Hollywood film score.

Ólafur Arnalds’ original motion picture soundtrack for Sam Levinson’s feature film debut ‘Another Happy Day’, starring Ellen Barkin and Demi Moore, will see a worldwide release via UK modern classical label Erased Tapes Records on February 27, 2012.

PRE-ORDER it on CD/Vinyl/Digital now from: http://erasedtapes.com/store/index/ERATP038

IN HIS OWN WORDS: 

‘In mid-December 2010 I was on a holiday in China when I received an email from Sam Levinson about the film. We got on the phone at like 4 in the morning Beijing time and ended up talking all through the night, instantly connecting. He told me that they had been listening to my music while making the film, so the film was already very influenced by my music. However, it was not until Ellen Barkin – the beautiful force that she is – had pestered the producers for a week, calling them every day about how I am the right one for this film, that they finally gave in. The only catch was that it had to be done two weeks later, in the first week of January. So I ended up scoring nonstop all throughout Christmas, making my mother mad in the process.’ - Ólafur Arnalds

CONTEXT:

Born in the suburban Icelandic town of Mosfellsbær, a few kilometres outside of Reykjavík, the 24-year old composer has always enjoyed pushing boundaries with both his studio work and his live-shows. Through relentless touring and determination this young artist has steadily gained recognition worldwide and continues his mission to lure an indie-generation of pop and rock fans into an emotive world of beguiling electronic chamber music and delicate classical arrangements.

'The indie kid who knows the score’ – Guardian’s Observer

'An artist who can exert power with the lightest of touches’ – BBC Music


TRACK LISTING:  

1. The Land Of Nod  2. Through The Screen  3. Before The Calm  4. Lynn's Theme  5. Alice Enters  6. The Wait  7. A Family Stroll  8. Poland  9. Out To Sea  10. Autumn Day  11. Everything Must Change

OFFICIAL WEBSITES:

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ERASEDTAPES.COM

Erased Tapes Collection IV

Ólafur Arnalds - Poland

Featured in trailer for Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus'. (international trailer)

Trailer here http://youtu.be/a9jRaa4Wkbk

Taken from the album 'Memoryhouse' available to buy at:
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Max Richter - Sarajevo - Music from Prometheus Trailer

Flapjacks - Mister Sandman (Alle Farben Remix)

brand spanking new remix of steve aokis song control freak... i tried to go for a weird ed banger vibe :D i hope you like it

Control Freak

Steve Aoki - Control Freak feat. Blaqstarr & Kay (Dillon Francis Remix)

Le Coq Sportif and Future Classic have joined forces again for a huge finale in their series of Australian covers of classic French artists.

The fourth instalment is from Sydney band New Navy - recently picked by the Sydney Morning Herald as 2012's 'Next Big Thing' - doing a very special cover of Télépopmusik's 'Breathe'.

Télépopmusik are a French trio that established a new sound in French electronic music in the early 2000's with their peers and compatriots Air, Le Rythmes Digitales and Dimitri From Paris. 'Breathe' featured the guest vocals of singer Angela McCluskey on the group's debut album 'Genetic World' and went on to break into the US and UK charts and be nominated for a Grammy Award in 'Best Dance Recording'.

New Navy have stripped out all the electronic elements of the original and replaced with their signature clean bright guitars, island percussion and Ben McInerney's rich vocals. New Navy took some seriously big strides in 2011 with their summer hits 'Zimbabwe' and 'Tapioca' carving up national youth broadcaster triple j and community stations all year and nabbing a spot on the prestigious triple j Hottest 100 list.

http://newnavy.com.au/
http://www.facebook.com/lecoqsportif.australia
http://futureclassic.com.au/

New Navy - Breathe (Télépopmusik Cover) [FREE DOWNLOAD]

Free download http://lapalux.bandcamp.com/track/the-hours

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Lapalux - The Hours

For more information visit: http://www.klassikakzente.de/recomposed/home 

Some works are so familiar that it is almost impossible to hear them afresh, but that is what Max Richter has achieved with Vivaldi “Recomposed”. This is no mere arrangement; instead Richter has absorbed Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons into his own musical bloodstream. At first Richter followed the example of other works in the “Recomposed” series, which re-mix existing recordings, but, he says, “I wanted to open up the score on a note-by-note level, and working with an existing recording was like digging a mineshaft through an incredibly rich seam, discovering diamonds and not being able to pull them out. That became frustrating. I wanted to get inside the score at the level of the notes and in essence re-write it, re-composing it in a literal way.”Richter calculates that, in the process, he has discarded around three-quarters of Vivaldi’s original. He opens with what he describes as “a dubby cloud which I’ve called Spring 0. It functions as a sort of prelude, setting up an electronic, ambient space for the first Spring movement to step into. I’ve used electronics in several movements, subtle, almost inaudible things to do withthe bass, but I wanted certain moments to connect to the whole electronic universe that is so much part of our musical language today.” Other resonances are no less unexpected: Richter describes part of the first movement of his Summer as “heavy music for the orchestra. It’s relentless pulsed music, which is a quality that contemporary dance music has; and perhaps I was also thinking about John Bonham’s drumming. Then, in the second movement of Autumn I asked the harpsichordist Raphael Alpermann to play in what is a rather old-fashioned way, very regularly, rather like a ticking clock. That was partly because I didn’t want the harpsichord part to be attention-seeking, but also because that style connects to various pop records from the 1970s where the harpsichord or Clavinet was featured, including various Beach Boys albums and the Beatles’ Abbey Road.” Clearly, Richter has brought his own frame of reference to the project. As he says, “Vivaldi’s music is made of regular patterns, and that connects with post-minimalism, which is one strand in the music that I write. That felt like a natural link, but even so it was surprisingly difficult to navigate my way through it. At every point I had to work out how much is Vivaldi and how much is me. It was difficult but also rewarding because the raw material is so fascinating.”Just as Richter’s Seasons plays tricks with the way we hear Vivaldi’s original, so it also asks questions of the soloist, Daniel Hope. “Violinists have Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons hardwired in their brain. Daniel is likely to play the original I don’t know how many times in a year, and for him to have my parallel text going on in another part of his brain is a challenge. I think he did a wonderful job. He brought to it a deep engagement with the original, but he was fully prepared to cut this new swathe through the text.”


Spring One - Vivaldi Recomposed - The Four Seasons

Spring 1 (2012)

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Eine Klassik für Sich 2012

Richter: Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Summer 3 (2012)

Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons

Richter: Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons: Winter 1 (2012)

Die lange Version unseres Pianostückes aus der TV-Werbung

Travel Dreams - HRS Long

Another track I originally composed for the fantastic artist Gavin O'Donnell's drawing "Azura" that I have re-mastered and edited. 

It's a long track, but it's split into 3 unique sections that tie together. The thought process was to follow the growth and emotions of the woman in the drawing. 

Find the original drawing video here on Gavin's YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M88K0m8eYLE

Azura (re-mastered & edited)

I'm not asleep... but that doesn't mean I'm awake.  ~Author Unknown

piano: Carlos Márquez

Reflections

Dirk Maassen: Lullaby for the Sleepless

Max Richter trained in composition and piano at Edinburgh University, at the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence.

On completing his studies, Max co-founded the iconoclastic classical ensemble Piano Circus, where he stayed for ten years, commissioning and performing works by Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe and Steve Reich.

In the late 90s he worked with a number of electronic artists, notably Future Sound of London on their album 'Dead Cities". He subsequently collaborated with FSOL over a period of two years, also contributing to the albums "The Isness" and "The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness". Max also collaborated with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size, on "In the Mode".

In June 2002, Max released his debut solo album, "memoryhouse", recorded with The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. This was followed in March 2004 by FatCat's release of "The Blue Notebooks", with featured readings by Tilda Swinton.

In 2005 Max produced Vashti Bunyan's outstanding comeback album "Lookaftering".

2006 saw the release of "Songs From Before" based on Haruki Murakami texts read by Robert Wyatt. That same year, Max began performing "from The Art of Mirrors", an evolving score to previously unseen Super 8mm films of Derek Jarman.

Max's more recent work continues to stretch the notions of what Classical music is.  ‘24 Postcards In Full Colour’, released in August 2008, is an experimental work made up of 24 composed ringtones.

Max works widely in film music, installation and the theatre, most recently on INFRA, made with Wayne MacGregor and Julian Opie for The Royal Ballet, London. The Ballet was the subject of a BBC 'making of' documentary.

Max was named 2008 European Composer Of The Year for his score to Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir, for which he was also nominated for the Prix France Musique.

DIE FREMDE / Feo Aladag - Umay travelling

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