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24 Postcards In Full Colour [VINYL]

Max Richter | Format: Vinyl
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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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.

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  • Vinyl (19 Jan 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Fatcat Records
  • ASIN: B001BDZI2A
  • Other Editions: Audio CD
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 389,270 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. The Road in a Grey Tape
2. H in New England
3. This Picture of Us. P.
4. Lullaby from the Westcoast Sleepers
5. When the Northern Lights/Jasper and Louise
6. Circles from the Rue Simon/Crubellier
7. Cascade NW By W
8. A Sudden Manhattan On the Mind
9. In Louisville at 7
10. Cathodes
11. I Was Just Thinking
12. A Song for H/Far Away
13. Return to Prague
14. Broken Symmetries for Y
15. Berlin By Overnight
16. Cradle Song for A (Interstate B3)
17. Kierling/Doubt
18. From 553 W Elm Street, Logan Illinois (Snow)
19. Tokyo Riddle Song
20. The Tartu Piano
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4.0 out of 5 stars Max Richter- 24 Postcards in Full Colour LP Review (8/10) 6 July 2008
By experimusicdotcom
Format:Audio CD
'24 Postcards in Full Colour' is the latest and most conceptually experimental release by Edinburgh-based pianist/composer Max Richter. Following on from the radiant and haunting electronica steeped neo-classical compositions of his previous three albums, '24 Postcards...' is a release that breaks down this much vaunted electro-acoustic formula into a varied collection of evocative miniatures, each offering a glimpse into potentially much larger pieces.

'24 Postcards....' is an attempt to explore the ringtone as a vehicle for musical performance and as such, the album contains 24 tracks ranging from 60 seconds to just under 3 minutes. Richter's intention is to premiere the work in various gallery spaces where pre-registered audience members receive SMS messages which results in the playing-back of one or more of the tracks. Indeed, this is an ambitious and cleverly thought-through affair that should be witnessed and must be applauded, but is it any good musically? Well, yes! Richter carves out simple yet evocative snippets of deliciously suggestive classical compositions which arc and gleam with a majestic quality. Similar, both in style and length to a score for a classy film like American Beauty, Richter utilises an orchestra of 9 and a limited palette of instrumentation that consists of string quintet; solo piano; 16 track 2 inch tape; transistors; found shortwave radio; vinyl clicks and acoustic guitars. From this, a clean and melodic sound is born, one that fully amplifies the resonant quality of the instrumental tones but complements it with a brooding and occasionally jilted industrial ambience.... Read more ›
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Max Richter - 24 Postcards in Full Colour 29 Aug 2008
By Mr. D. N. Reece
Format:Audio CD
A postcard tries to capture the essence of a place to send to someone who has not been there, both through picture and message. Max Richter's musical equivalents are equally distilled, and like postcards, they are short (the whole album lasts just over half an hour), and they can be restless and imaginative or quirky and poignant. Richter states that he took inspiration from ringtones, those brief, intrusive, personal into private sounds of mobile phones. Only Richter's pieces aren't invasive or irritating, instead the postcards seem not to have been sent from real places, but some sort of dream world. Not a Lynchian nightmarish world, which is uncannily disturbing, but a childlike, imaginative world, where sumptuous and evocative imagery exists to intrigue and bewilder.

Images emerge for that brief moment like the way a postcard evokes a certain memory, but is always slightly different on each listen. `A Sudden Manhattan of the Mind' has an underlying beat, which is slightly disquieting, but contains the thrill, the movement, the energy of urban life and the pulse of the city.

Richter was taught by the renowned composer, Luciano Berio and the influence is perhaps more apparent here than on any of Richter's previous albums. Listening to Berio's solo piano works, there is that same sense of tension and unpredictability that makes everything remarkably fragile and fleeting. Though Berio's pieces are far more manic and dissonant, whereas Richter has a love of melody and the whole album is soaked with a quiet beauty.

His work has always been full of sadness (`On the Nature of Daylight' from The Blue Notebooks is one of the most beautiful melancholic pieces I've heard) and this is no exception.... Read more ›
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7 of 12 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Minimal pleasures 9 Sep 2008
By T. Almy
Format:Vinyl
As someone who has loved all Max Richter's recordings, from 'Memoryhouse' onwards, I know how beautiful and resonant his work can be. This is no exception, though many pieces leave you regretting their lack of brevity. My quibble, however, shallow as it may seem, is that the running time gets shorter with each album, '24' being half the length of 'Memoryhouse'. Size isn't everything but maybe some of the pieces could have been more expansive. Lovely, nonetheless.
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