We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Midday

by Max Ananyev

supported by
nmcr01
nmcr01 thumbnail
nmcr01 Listening to the music, I absolutely believe the description of Max's creative process. Lots of things are going on in the world of Midday but there's a coherence in the voice of the storyteller that holds it all together. It's a perfectly conceived sonic landscape in which you can happily lose yourself. Favorite track: Images in Time.
The gaye device
The gaye device thumbnail
The gaye device Such a peaceful vibe emanates from this album. Dreamy and relaxed is where I'm at right now.
Lost Tribe Sound
Lost Tribe Sound thumbnail
Lost Tribe Sound Always known Max's work mainly through his guitar efforts, but his mix of instrumentals and field recordings has reached new highs with his last couple albums. Midday is just another beautiful bit of ambient storytelling from him. Also, another absolute winner from from White Lab Recs.
Gabriel
Gabriel thumbnail
Gabriel Different than other albums but I must say.. BRILLIANT!
Fabio Viola
Fabio Viola thumbnail
Fabio Viola Such a brilliant, elegant album of classical ambient music. It’s got just the right amount of sweet too. Favorite track: Images in Time.
more...
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £7 GBP  or more

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 223 Whitelabrecs releases available on Bandcamp and save 90%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars, Boat, Vignettes, homegrown apples, Re-Cartographies, Proscenium, So Many, Diminishes, Restless Nature, and 215 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      £140.50 GBP or more (90% OFF)

     

  • Limited deluxe edition gatefold vinyl-effect CD
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This special limited edition release is in a run of 100 copies, modelled around the classic gatefold vinyl LP. It includes printed front, rear and inner sleeves featuring photography by Natalia Poluyanova and Dmitriy Ratushniy, along with a card sleeve which houses a printed vinyl-effect CDr.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Midday via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Sold Out

1.
2.
3.
Psychopomp 05:34
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Elixir 03:26

about

Max Ananyev is a composer and classical guitarist originally from Far Eastern-Russia, who currently resides in Saint-Petersburg. Max began studying and playing classical guitar in music school as a child, composing his own pieces from this early age. In the last 10 years, he has become increasingly focused in his work as a composer, with numerous albums and EPs, released on British labels Serein and Preserved Sound as well as Moscow’s Fancymusic.

His process for creating music is to schedule some time specifically to compose. He does not wait for inspiration to strike, instead allowing this to take place once his studio sessions begin. Time is all that is needed for the work to develop and it is timbre which is the target, so that specific sounds can be achieved. He prefers his recordings to flow into an album or record, rather than selecting the best sounds from a large pool of material.

Thematically, anything from the sunlight beaming onto the wall in a room, chance communications with people and traveling can influence Max as an artist. His unrelated studies at the time of recording subconsciously feel linked to this body of work somehow, with lectures on Renaissance alchemists, mythology, death and human evolution having been an area of research during this album’s production period. Nietzsche’s tightrope walker was also a poignant read at the time and purely by coincidence, the person in the cover image appears to be walking a tightrope.

However, conceptually there is not a neatly mapped-out journey for the listener. Instead the asymmetric shapes of atmospheric sound and the names they have inherited, along with the cover artwork tell different stories as each track passes. Introductions, codes, different parts and moods unfurl carefully in the lightest breeze, like classical music. Midday creates a warm and restful environment for the listener to make sense of this collection of moods; a task made all too easy thanks to its shimmeringly adherent gathering of light sounds.

credits

released August 29, 2020

Written, Produced and Mastered by Max Ananyev
Photography by Natalia Poluyanova and Dmitriy Ratushniy
Packaging design by Harry Towell

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Whitelabrecs England, UK

Whitelabrecs is a record label established in 2016, specialising in highly limited runs of vinyl-effect CDrs and occasional digital-only editions. The discography focuses on contemporary Ambient music, including Drone, Modern Classical and Electro Acoustic. ... more

contact / help

Contact Whitelabrecs

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Midday, you may also like: