Listen to SLEEP (Piano Edition) here: https://dg.lnk.to/SleepPianoEdition For this new EP, SLEEP: Piano Edition, Max Richter has focused on his own instrument and created three extended reimagined tracks for solo piano. For Richter, the piano is a sketch pad – the starting point for new creative ventures, enabling subconscious ideas to float up to the surface as he begins composing. As he notes, the instrument also plays a key role in SLEEP: “One of the two main themes is very slow-moving, pulsed piano music – the instrument is one of the main characters in the piece.” It was therefore a natural choice to go back to the keyboard and strip certain sections of the larger work down to their basic structures. SLEEP: Piano Edition has the same spacious and immersive qualities as its epic parent work. Whether we listen to one track or the seamless flow of all three, the slow, steady rhythms, repetitions and subtle transformations offer a sense of familiarity and security. “SLEEP is a piece about finding a place to pause, a place to rest,” concludes the composer. “Because even though the world is very exciting, it’s also now very exhausting, especially psychologically, with the advent of 24-hour news, social media, the internet completely saturating our lives. We’re beset by ecological, social, political, troubles. Obviously, the best way we can deal with these is to have a clear mind. In order to do that, we need to find ways to kind of settle our minds down. And SLEEP offers one such opportunity.” Listen to SLEEP: https://dg.lnk.to/sleep-8hours Listen to TRANQUILITY BASE: https://dg.lnk.to/SLEEPtranquilitybase Watch the SLEEP DOCUMENTARY: https://stage.plus/Sleep Download the SLEEP APP: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/sleep-b. Sign up for the NEWSLETTER: https://MaxRichter.lnk.to/newsletterEM Find out more about Max Richter here: TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@maxrichtermusic?lang=de-DE Instagram https://www.instagram.com/maxrichtermusic/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MaxRichterMusic/ X https://twitter.com/maxrichtermusic Filming by Studio Richter Mahr https://studiorichtermahr.com/ Camera by Marie Sutter https://www.instagram.com/mariesutter/?hl=de