Beautifully recorded and cinematic in scope, ‘Songs From Before’ once again carries a pensive, emotionally resonant tone. Punctuated by Robert Wyatt’s distinctive, understated readings of Haruki Murakami’s text, the music evokes forgotten memories or lost histories, a series of bittersweet articulations that seem suspended somewhere between a dreamy sense of awe and melancholia. The title refers to the fact that, as well as this being a kind of specimen case of music written over a long period, the album carries other music inside it - with the sources ranging from music between 5 and 300 years old - either used as starting points for Max’s own writing, or submerged deep within. TRACKLIST1. A1 Song 4:122. A2 Flowers for Yulia 6:503. A3 Fragment 1:414. A4 Harmonium 4:235. A5 Ionosphere 1:256. B1 Autumn Music 1 3:547. B2 Time Passing 1:518. B3 Sunlight 5:359. B4 Lullaby 0:5310. B5 Autumn Music 2 3:4911. B6 Verses 1:4312. B7 From the Rue Vilin 1:02