Scottish classical composer and pianist Max Richter will release his fourth album, his third for Fat-Cat’s 130701 imprint, on 21 July. The album, entitled 24 Postcards In Full Colour, features twenty four short compositions. Richter’s most concise project to date, at under thirty five minutes, the twenty four tracks making the album have been conceived as ringtones, set to be performed in a variety of gallery spaces where pre-registered members of the audience will receive SMS message alert playing back one or more of the tracks. There will also be a micro-site featuring twenty-four photographs, one for each track. 24 Postcards In Full Colour will only be available on vinyl and digital download.

Richter will perform tracks of the album for the first time at the Union Chapel in London this Sunday, 29 June.

Richter’s first album, Memoryhouse, originally released on the BBC’s Late Junction, will be rereleased in August 2008 and will be available on vinyl for the first time.

Max Richter | Fat-Cat Records

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