Requiem

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The meditative masterpiece by Irmin SchmidtOn the cusp of his 89th birthday, Irmin Schmidt, co-founder of the legendary Can, unveils Requiem, a contemplative work of rare intensity. Composed in his home in the south of France, the album blends prepared and acoustic piano with the rustlings of the natural world - water, birds, nocturnal breath - blurring the boundary between music and environment. Shaped alongside his faithful collaborator René Tinner, Requiem unfolds a suspended, almost ritualistic space where memory and the present merge. Between classical heritage and experimental freedom, Schmidt signs a deeply inhabited, meditative, and luminous record, which stands as one of the most moving works of his career.