Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks

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Label:	130701 – CD13-04
Format:	CD, Album
Country:	UK
Released:	Mar 2004
Genre:	Electronic, Non-Music
Style:	Modern Classical, Spoken Word, Ambient

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

Companies, etc.

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – 130701
Copyright © – Max Richter
Published By – Mute Song Ltd.
Recorded At – Eastcote Studios
Recorded At – Hear No Evil Studio, London
Mastered At – The Exchange
Glass Mastered At – Sonopress – 50902512

Credits

Cello – Chris Worsey, Philip Sheppard
Layout – Alex Torrance
Management – Jonathan Brigden
Mastered By – Mandy Parnell
Photography By – Paul Spencer (6)
Piano – Max Richter
Producer – Max Richter
Read By [Reader] – Tilda Swindon*
Recorded By – Philip Bagnel*, Steve Parr
Text By [Text From 'The Blue Octavo Notebooks'] – Franz Kafka
Text By [Texts From 'Hymn Of The Perl' And 'Unattainable Earth'] – Czeslaw Milosz*
Translated By [Text From 'The Blue Octavo Notebooks'] – Eithne Wilkins, Ernst Kaiser
Viola – John Metcalf*
Violin – Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner
Written-By – Max Richter

Notes

Texts from 'Hymn of the Perl' and 'Unattainable 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 by Philip Bagnel and Hear No Evil Studios by Steve Parr.
Mastered at The Exchange.

Published by Mute Song Ltd.
© Max Richter 2004
℗ 130701 Records 2004

Jewel case with clear tray, obi strip and 12-page booklet.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode (Text on obi strip): 6 00116 13042 6
Barcode (Scanned): 600116130426
Matrix / Runout (Variant 1): [Sonopress logo] 50902512/CD1304 01
Mould SID Code (Variant 1): IFPI 0788
Matrix / Runout (Variant 2): [Sonopress logo] 50902512/CD1304 01
Mastering SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI LB 45
Mould SID Code (Variant 2): IFPI 0779
Matrix / Runout (Variant 3): [Sonopress logo] 50902512/CD1304 01
Mastering SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI LB 45
Mould SID Code (Variant 3): IFPI 0781
Matrix / Runout (Variant 4): [Sonopress logo] 50902512/CD1304 01
Mastering SID Code (Variant 4): IFPI LB 45
Mould SID Code (Variant 4): IFPI 0755

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
	The Blue Notebooks (CD, Album, Promo)	130701	CD 13-04P	UK	2004
New Submission	The Blue Notebooks (CD, Album)	130701	CD13-04	UK	2004
Recently Edited	The Blue Notebooks (LP, Album, Limited Edition, Remastered, 180gm, DMM)	130701	LP13-04X	UK	2008
New Submission	The Blue Notebooks (CD, Album)	130701	CD13-04	US	2009
New Submission	The Blue Notebooks (12×File, MP3, 320 kbps)	Deutsche Grammophon	none	UK, Europe & US	2014

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Reviews

unknoahble Aug 3, 2021
Some of these releases (LP13-04X & 002894835016) are listed as remastered. Can anyone compare these to the original CD release? Is there really a mastering difference?
VladdyPants Apr 2, 2014
Stunning, breathtaking, amazing!!!
mintfloss Apr 7, 2005
Edited 19 years ago
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.