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The Blue Notebooks - Max Richter

Description: Genre: Dance & Electronic - Electronica / Artist: Max Richter / Audio CD released 2004-02-23 at Fat Cat / Disc #1 ... more

The Blue Notebooks - Max Richter ... Tracklisting
1 The Blue Notebooks
2 On The Nature Of Daylight
3 Horizon Variations
4 Shadow Journal
5 Iconography
6 Vladimir’s Blues
7 Arboretum
8 Old Song
9 Organum
10 The Trees
11 Written On The Sky

Newest Review: ... with simplicity but is never simple or lachrymose. It is delicate yet with an underlying tension, exemplified by the violin ... more

... as it cuts careful swathes across us. Then Horizon Variations first hints at the production. Richter's piano is carefully, almost imperceptibly manipulated as it plays alone, a short but beautiful segue into: Typewriters and Tilda Swinton, her voice the bridge between pieces and Shadow Journal (and Swinton is speaking as if from a journal), where we realise the carefully placed electronics. An ululating, electronic throb plays beneath lone strings, delicate and precise, matched beautifully to one another as the ele...more

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The Blue Notebooks - Max Richter: The Blue Notebooks (1362 words)
by no_name - written on 19/12/06 (Very useful, 90 readings)
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Max Richter's The Blue Notebooks meant nothing to me until suggested that I might enjoy it. Fair enough, says I and so I went to take a look at reviews. I found little but what I did find intrigued me. I also found you couldn't buy it. Well, there goes that idea. Anyhow. Suddenly finding myself in Rough Trade in Covent Garden (nope, it's not a brothel), browsing amongst the Philip Glass and the Brian Eno I discover The Blue Notebooks. I run to the counter (well, running is impossible in RT) and pay my money. Once home I put the CD into the stereo and await the results. I've built Max Richter up in my mind for some reason and suddenly there's dread. ...

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