Max Richter is quickly making his way up my favorite composers list. This song from his latest ablum 24 Postcards in Full Colour, quickly takes you to Berlin, on roads of classical, yet contemporary, strings. It’s on the frontier of perfection.

How couldn’t you like a guy with a journal entry like this:

A Summer of travels, concerts …

I finished a score for Randal Sharp’s film “Henry May Long” - flew the band north, recorded the score in six hours, and put them back on the plane - Scary.

Camping with the children - fires on the beach at midnight and burnt bacon.

The new album is done and delivered. Mandy, now at electric mastering, cut it for me - her new studio is about 6 inches away from the edge of the westway, so you see trucks going by really really fast and close - but you can’t hear them. Very weird.

I’m starting on a couple of new film projects “Waltz with Bashir”, which is an amazing animated Doc about the first Lebanon War, and “Hope” a fascinating and thoughtful film by Stanislaw Mucha and Krzysztof Piesciewicz.