Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks
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130701 – CD13-04
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CD, Album
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Tracklist
| 1 | The Blue Notebooks | 1:20 | ||
| 2 | On The Nature Of Daylight | 6:11 | ||
| 3 | Horizon Variations | 1:52 | ||
| 4 | Shadow Journal | 8:22 | ||
| 5 | Iconography | 3:38 | ||
| 6 | Vladimir's Blues | 1:18 | ||
| 7 | Arboretum | 2:53 | ||
| 8 | Old Song | 2:11 | ||
| 9 | Organum | 3:13 | ||
| 10 | The Trees | 7:52 | ||
| 11 | Written On The Sky | 1:39 |
Credits
- Cello – Chris Worsey, Philip Sheppard
- Layout – Alex Torrance
- Mastered By – Mandy Parnell
- Narrator [Reader] – Tilda Swindon*
- Photography – Paul Spencer
- Piano – Max Richter
- Recorded By – Philip Bagnel*, Steve Parr
- Viola – John Metcalfe
- Violin – Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner
- Written-By, Producer – Max Richter
Notes
Texts from 'Hymn o Perle' ('Hymn of the Pearl') and 'Nieobjeta Ziemia' ('The Unencompassed Earth') by Czeslaw Milosz and 'The Blue Octavo Notebooks' by Franz Kafka, translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 1991).
Recorded at Eastcote and Hear No Evil Studios
Mastered at The Exchange.
Other Versions (Showing 2 of 2) View All
| Title, Format | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Blue Notebooks (CD, Album, Promo) | 130701 | CD 13-04P | UK | 2004 | ||
| The Blue Notebooks (LP, RM, Ltd, 180) | 130701 | LP13-04X | UK | 2008 |
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Reviews & Discussion
This album is a perfect example of music that sounds oddly familiar yet intriguing at the same time. Throughout the album, a woman reads various passages from Kafka's "The Blue Octavo Notebooks." While it is tempting to classify this album as a concept album because of this narrative novelty, Richter is most concerned with getting to the climactic workings of successful Steve Reich and Philip Glass classical pieces. This is no negativism; in fact, Richter is more interested in their dramatic workings, which he employs perfectly with his personal touch of electronics (perhaps carried over from his previous production work with Roni Size or Future Sound of London), than the trademark destruction of composition of Reich and Glass. Because of this conservative approach, "The Blue Notebooks" has something for all music fans: electronic, classical, or rock-oriented music like Sigur Ros. Highly recommended.
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