Artist : Max Richter
Album : Sleep
Year : 2016
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 221kbps / 48.0KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : BD / PCM / 1536kbit/s / HFPA / Stereo
Playtime : 8h 24m
Size : 838.2mb
Label : Deutsche Grammophon
Catalognr : 479 5682 GH
Tracklist:
01. Dream 1 (Before The Wind Blows It All Away) 18:32
02. Cumulonimbus 10:10
03. Dream 2 (Entropy) 10:02
04. Path (7676) 11:00
05. Whose Name Is Written On Water 11:15
06. Patterns (Cypher) 2:46
07. Solo 6:54
08. Aria 1 11:06
09. Return 2 (Song) 16:46
10. Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea 19:17
11. Dream 11 (Whisper Music) 18:54
12. Moth-Like Stars 28:52
13. Path 17 (Before The Ending Of Daylight) 26:53
14. Space 26 (Epicardium) 6:55
15. Patterns (Lux) 16:44
16. Constellation 1 6:56
17. Constellation 2 15:20
18. Space 2 (Slow Waves) 7:42
19. Chorale / Glow 25:29
20. Dream 19 (Pulse) 18:53
21. Cassiopeia 19:36
22. Non-Eternal 23:50
23. Song / Echo 4:59
24. Aria 2 11:02
25. Never Fade Into Nothingness 9:41
26. Return 16 (Time Capsule) 24:25
27. If You Came This Way 14:30
28. Space 17 (Chains) 17:59
29. Sublunar 25:22
30. Dream 17 (Alpha) 28:47
31. Dream 0 (Till Break Of Day) 33:48
Releasenotes:
Here's the Blu-ray version.
Internal release.
(Blu-Ray not allowed after CD if it has the same tracks, rule 21.9)
High Fidelity Pure Audio.
PCM 1536kbit/s
Stereo.
There's a small scratch on track 13 at around 24:07.
It's present on the CD and the Blu-Ray.
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Acclaimed British composer Max Richter is about to make history, with a
ground-breaking piece of work the longest single piece of music ever recorded!
His new album SLEEP is an eight-hour Lullaby. An exploration of music,
consciousness and human connectivity and is actually intended to send the
listener to sleep.
The landmark work is played on piano, strings, with subtle electronic touches
and vocals but no words. It s my personal lullaby for a frenetic world. A
manifesto for a slower pace of existence. It would be great if people were to
start playing it while they are getting ready for bed, so that they hear it in
their sleep. Max Richter
Richter came up with the idea as he has always been fascinated by the process of
sleep. As a child, it was my absolute favourite activity. I often think of
composing as a daydreaming activity and, if I could, I would sleep for 23 hours
a day! It s one of the most important things we all do and for me it s almost
like a religion.
During his preparations, Richter consulted the eminent American neuroscientist
David Eagleman, in order to understand the mechanisms of the sleeping mind, and
the ways in which music can interact with them, which has directly influenced
the composer s writing.
Richter describes it as an investigation into the process of sleep. It s really
an experiment to try and understand how we experience music in different states
of consciousness awake and asleep and ask whether different people hear it in
different ways. For me, this piece of music is an attempt to see how that space
where your conscious mind is on holiday can be a place for music to live.
The dream state is like you have switched the whole factory over, but there is
still this window to the senses, so that the things you are hearing can get
incorporated into your dream, and we have all had this experience when, for
example your alarm clock goes off and it becomes part of your dream narrative.
David Eagleman in conversation with Max Richter
In addition to the 8h landmark recording, there is also a 1h version from SLEEP.
You could say that the short one is meant to be listened to, and the long one is
meant to be heard while sleeping, says Richter, who describes the one-hour
version as a different trip through the same landscape.
Coinciding with the renewed interest in durational works within the fine art
community, Richter says: this isn t something new in music, it goes back to
Cage, Terry Riley, and LaMonte Young, and it s coming around again partly as a
reaction to our speeded up lives we are all in need of a pause button.
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