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I only discovered his work 9 years ago by chance. Sick of listening to talksport on a long drive i switched over to classic fm. Spring 1 recomposed by Richter was playing, from that day his amazing body of work has been a daily part of my life.

Friday just gone i had the privilege of finally seeing him perform live at the royal festival hall southbank. I’ve been to many concerts and festivals over the year’s with various artist’s, kings of leon, Radiohead, I’ve even see prodigy live, but nothing has come near to this experience. What a truly inspirational and amazing composer who I owe a massive thanks to for his work. His music helped me through some horrible life changing traumas. What a man

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If you like Max Richter, I suspect you will like Clint Mansell. He’s obviously famous for Lux Aeterna but I really like ‘the night cafe’.

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New to Max Richter? Here’s an eight hour video to get you started.

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Tony Anderson has some really lovely pieces, “Nocturne in Paris” being one of my favourites

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I like what you did here, too

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It’s a 10 then. Must have a listen myself.

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I had both videos playing simultaneously and it was good :+1:

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I played an hour and a half of the video to which @kim_il_swan provided a link, lying down, eyes closed, reliving the wonderful times we used to spend every August at the Bude Jazz Festival, Wonderful stuff and I can well understand how such beautiful relaxing music would have helped you through the horrible life changing trauma which you experienced a few years ago.

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Soul to soul ? Mon âme à ton âme.

I have deleted the link because (a) it asked for proof of something - can’t quite recall what, even though I checked the link for the first time since posting it a mere five minutes ago and (b) it led to an appeal for donations to a charity which I’m guessing most on here would not be interested in supporting.
Apologies for any frustration/irritation this may have caused.

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So I’ve spent a good chunk of last week listening to his back catalogue. However, his ‘big hitters’ are amongst my favourites with ‘of the undiscovered country’ and ‘she remembers’. Although, for some reason, someone seems to be cutting onions when I listen to them.

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De mon âme à ton âme by Kompromat.

See if this works.

Works for me.

I think @Readingmarginalista may like the interesting linguistic format.

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Keeping Micra up to date with the youth

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I tried on the 17th of February, but maybe now is the time. Missed out on them coming to London. Gutted.

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Best gig I’ve seen so far this year was by Fuzzy Lights - Cambridge folk/noise crew. Sort of where early Fairport Convention meets The Velvet Underground, but with almost post-metal song structures. Try this on for size if you have a spare 10 minutes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YnNJyEtKLw&list=RD5YnNJyEtKLw&start_radio=1

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The link eventually took me to DeleriumTremolo Jazz Band in, I’m guessing, Holland or Germany. Was that your intention or just the algorithms at play?

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Strewth!

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As a metalhead who will be at Cropredy this summer with the Fairports, I’ll be checking this out.

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My first thought was you might like them, particularly given a friend at the gig said they reminded them a bit of Neurosis - in the way they structured their songs, rather than their sound.

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Based off this recommendation, I’ve just listened to a few tracks from the Fuzzy Lights’ Fen Creatures album. I quite liked what I heard and will listen to some more at some point.

I’m the interests of sharing, I’ll follow-up your ‘post-metal’ recommendation by recommending a fearsome slab of folk-tinged ‘proto-metal’ from 1969, heavy as hell when heavy metal was only just becoming a thing, with violin: Death Warmed Up by High Tide.

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