Max Richter - SLEEP: Tranquility Base (Alva Noto Remodel Edit)

SLEEP: Tranquility Base – Alva Noto Remodel “SLEEP: Tranquility Base” is a revision which offers a glimpse into the original SLEEP-material from an electronic perspective. “Tranquility Base” is the site on the Moon where, in July 1969, humans landed and walked on a celestial body other than Earth for the first time. With this in mind, the EP functions as a vessel that disconnects and travels through the body of work, allowing art to provide something which resembles peace within ourselves. – Max Richter “I’ve already been following Max Richter’s work for many years now, so I felt all the more honoured to be able to do a remodel for him. I’ve tried to combine the original, which is played largely on classical instruments, with an electronic score, kind of transposing it into an electronic sound world. I derived my inspiration from early science-fiction novels by Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” and its notion of a computer that dreams and possess