Classical Sleep

Manu Delago (born 31 July 1984) is an Austrian Hang player, percussionist and composer based in London.

While nominating Elliott Carter for the "Gold Medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letters for Eminence in Music" in 1971, Aaron Copland stated that "Elliott Carter is one of America's most distinguished creative artist in any field." Two important pieces of Carter's composition are now available as a re-release on this CD: In Sleep, In Thunder and Triple Duo. "In Sleep, In Thunder" is a setting of six poems by the late Robert Lowell and composed "in memory of the poet and friend". Black comic parodies and ice-cold irony determine the atmosphere of the six songs. For Carter the way out of the black world of the Lowell cycle was "Triple Duo", a work whose comic mood appears in its very opening where the players are caught in the act of warming up before beginning.

Building on the international success of Max Richter's groundbreaking eight-hour work SLEEP - his "personal lullaby for a frenetic world" - and the one-hour adaptation from SLEEP, Richter now releases the 9+ hour "Faded" edition of the work.

Taking their name from a Thelonious Monk quote, I Like To Sleep are three young Norwegian musicians, all 22 years old. Nicolas and Øyvind first met in high school in Trondheim before they joined up with Amund in a youth big band. It soon became apparent that they shared the same musical background centered around 70s progressive rock, classical music, jazz and improvisation. Soon after the trio was formed, first for fun, but soon with higher ambitions, they won the prestigious "Young Jazz Musicians of the Year" award in 2018.