released for the first time on vinyl is max richters emotive and minimal score to damon lindelofs tv series about a post-apocalyptic global event where 2% of the worlds population disappears without explanation. richters approach explores the feelings of the protagonists family, the garveys, through intimate, small scale music. he tackles this psychological landscape by bringing a ritual quality to the score, while themes of departure and loss are represented by a sense of sonic decay, relying on the instrumentation of a few sustained tones on pianos, harps and celesta. max richter is a classically trained composer that defies boundaries. trained at the royal academy of music and finishing his studies under the tutelage of avant-garde composer luciano berio in florence, richters career has followed many paths. his musical output ranges from ballets (wayne macgregors infra), reinventions of classical works (vivaldis four seasons), collaborations with the future sound of london, roni size and vashti bunyan to writing scores for film and tv (waltz with bashir, lost and found, last days on mars) and solo work (memoryhouse, the blue notebooks, 24 postcards in full colour).