Punctuated by Robert Wyatt's distinctive, understated readings of Haruki Murakami's text, 'Songs From Before' utilises piano, cello, violin and viola, the music evokes forgotten memories or lost histories.

As with a box of found objects carefully arranged to reveal meaning, the remote, grainy dubs that permeate the record, redolent of Mike Ink's Gas or Basic Channel / Chain Reaction output, deploy slight shifts in tone and colour, framing the music. Comprised mainly of shortwave radio sounds (a fondly revered but increasingly archaic medium with the advent of the internet), this connects with the analogue and tape aesthetics of the music, and the title itself.

-Taken from Max Richter