Max Richter Announces New Album 'Voices 2', Shares First Single Mirrors
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Mike Terry
Max Richter has announced a new album.
'Voices 2' is the follow-up to 2020's 'Voices' and will arrive on April 9. Whereas the latter was inspired by and featured text adapted from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the new record creates a soundscape within which the listener can fully consider the ideas put forward in its predecessor. He said:
“One of the things that was really striking, when we premiered the music, was that even though everyone knows of the Declaration, not many people have actually read it or spent time with it. The overwhelming comment we had from the audience was ‘it’s amazing to hear that text’. If people can have time to experience that text, and then in the second part of the record really spend time thinking about it, that for me is a perfect outcome.”
Head below to watch the video for the the record's first single Mirrors, created by Yulia Mahr, who said: “Since the theme of Voices 2 is the future we wish to write, I chose to concentrate on the topic of re-birth, a new Spring. Hope. The flowers are all negative versions of themselves - out of the negative can be born a future that is full of beauty and the positive. History is not inevitable.”
The two-and-a-half-minute track finds the Grammy-nominated composer crafting understated, subtly uplifting melodies to convey a message of hope.
'Voices 2' artwork:
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