Pitchfork

Max Richter's modern classical compositions make him perfect for FatCat's 130701 imprint. The new-ish label will release Songs From Before-- Max's follow-up to 2004's acclaimed The Blue Notebooks-- in North America on November 28 and everywhere else on October 23.

The 12-track album features regular Richter contributors Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, Rick Costa, John Metcalfe, Chris Worsey, and Ian Burdge, as well as Soft Machine gent Robert Wyatt, who reads from Haruki Murakami texts.

As previously reported, Richter contributed to fellow FatCat Vashti Bunyan's sophomore album, Lookaftering, as a producer/co-arranger. He also mixed and co-produced the self-titled, forthcoming EP by labelmates and Glaswegian upstarts the Twilight Sad, due November 14 on FatCat.

As if that weren't enough, Richter's still doing the film thing, scoring a series of never-before-seen Super 8 Derek Jarman shorts and a new film by Stanislaw Mucha and Kieslowski-collaborator Krzysztof Piesciewicz titled Hope. Finally, Max is also collaborating on music/video project Siberia with British artist Darren Almond, and a music installation/gallery work with New York-based artist Monica Bravo. Dude gets around.

Somehow, Max plans to find the time to tour the U.S. and the UK in the near future.

Songs From Before:

01 Song
02 Flowers for Yulia
03 Fragment
04 Harmonium
05 Ionosphere
06 Autumn Music 1
07 Time Passing
08 Sunlight
09 Lullaby
10 Autumn Music 2
11 Verses
12 From the Rue Vilin