Description
Following releases by SET FIRE TO FLAMES and SYLVIAN CHAUVEAU, MAX RICHTER's 'The Blue Notebooks' is the fourth release on FATCAT's 130701 imprint, established as an outlet for more orchestrated, instrumental material. Richter is a British-based, German-born pianist and composer. This releases follows his 2002's highly-acclaimed 'Memoryhouse' performed by the BBC PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA and released on the BBC's classical label, LATE JUNCTION.
This is his 2nd solo album, a distinctive and adventurous work, beautifully recorded and cinematic in scope. Opening with a text from FRANZ KAFKA read by actress TILDA SWINDON over a sparse piano melody, the album moves through gorgeous, heart-wrenching string swells, through to sparse, lyrical piano pieces; hazy, swirling atmospherics, avalanche pulse-beats and partially occluded melodies that recall APHEX TWIN's 'Ambient Works', or elsewhere composers such as ARVO PART, BRIAN ENO, PHILLIP GLASS, JULIA WOLFE or STEVE REICH.
'The Blue Notebooks' is a series of bittersweet articulations that seem suspended somewhere between a certain dreamy sense of wonder / awe and a heavy melancholia.
Product Details
- Artist
- Max Richter
- Recording Environment
- Studio
- Label / Studio
- 130701
- WOW HD Sales Rank
- #18151
- Media Content Format
- Album
- Media Format
- Audio CD
- Year of release
- 2004
- Number of Discs
- 1
- CD 30days Sales Rank
- #13054
- Cast & Crew
- Max Richter (Music Performer)
Tracklisting
Disc 1:
-
Blue Notebooks
(1:20)
-
On the Nature of Daylight
(6:11)
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Horizon Variations
(1:52)
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Shadow Journal
(8:22)
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Iconography
(1:39)
-
Vladmir's Blues
(3:38)
-
Arboretum
(1:18)
-
Old Song
(2:53)
-
Organum
(2:11)
-
Trees
(3:13)
-
Written On the Sky
(7:52)
