Approximate Symmetry, by Maxi Göthling

Approximate Symmetry

by Maxi Göthling

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1.	Burn It All Down to Rubble, Then Breathe in the Ashes 01:25	info
2.	Waves Will Bury You 03:00	info
3.	A Dying Earth, Oh the Humanity! 03:45	info
4.	Alone into the Abyss 03:14	info
5.	At the End of Time 04:16	info
6.	To Find Beauty in an Imperfect World 03:18	info
7.	When a God Cries 04:47	info
8.	The Girl in the Painting (Her Tears) 04:21	info
9.	Is This the End? This Is the End! This Will Never End! 04:00	info
10.	Farewell My Friend (Outro) 02:00	info

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This album is the culmination of two years of work and me becoming more proficient at being a composer. I started out writing orchestral music in early 2019 and released my debut album Storyteller at the end of that year. Nothing on that album was planned or deliberate, it felt like one big accident. So naturally, that was the thing I wanted to avoid most while writing my next album.

Approximate Symmetry went through many, many iterations and only set in on a final concept within the last 8 months. Those iterations were necessary to achieve my main goal of not having a single mediocre or boring song on it. I think I partially succeeded with this, but I let you be the judge.

What you hear on this album is what I always wanted to write, ever since I started to write music. The focus on profound melodies and beautiful string arrangements are similar to my first album, but it's all much more intense, bigger, and competent from an orchestration standpoint.

I embraced my influences this time. You'll definitely hear some Joe Hisaishi, Yasunori Nishiki (whose Octopath Traveler soundtrack was a huge teaching moment in terms of string arrangements), but also classical composers like Alan Hovhaness (notably in the song The Girl In The Painting).

I truly hope that I'm not just deluding myself into thinking that this album is something special. I know that it's certainly not for everyone, and it may be an acquired taste for some. But what I really hope is that there is at least one person on this planet who listens to this album, and immediately understands what I was going for, and connects to the music in the same way that I do. If you are this person, please write me an e-mail. I'd love to hear from you and what you think about it!

For the lack of genre, I'd be inclined to call this album a post-classical work. To define it even further:
Post-Classical is orchestral that takes influences from traditional classical music, but embraces a song structure found in modern popular arrangements, while borrowing from the storytelling of orchestral movie and video game soundtracks.

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released August 1, 2021

Written, arranged, and produced by Maxi Göthling
Cover art by Eva Silva (@dwarfyr)

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Maxi Göthling Zeitz, Germany

Maxi Göthling is a composer from Germany. She writes video game inspired modern orchestral music with heavy focus on melody and emotional depth.

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