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What we say
 This record left our Phil feeling ecstatic.
*** FINALLY IN ON 180 GRAM DMM VINYL!!***
The other album I'm most fond of is the Max Richter lp on Fat Cat
subsidiary 130701 Records. He's some composer chappie who's had stuff out
on BBC Recordings before so I'm told and this is just lush. Mainly
consisting of pianos and strings it's just some of the most beautiful
music I've ever heard. It's very maudlin and it reminds me of the
music from Being John Malkovitch film in places. Classical music with some
electronics........ it makes me weep it's so beautiful. Defo for fans of
Yann Tiersen.....Even Brian who is the mental electro gabba nutter in the
office is warmed by these melancholic treats. To quote Jimmy Kranky.. it's
fan daby dozy. This is by far the best album of 2004. Hands down. It's probably the best album of 2005 as well...
What the label says:
Tracklisting:
1 - The Blue Notebooks
2 - On The Nature Of Daylight
3 - Horizon Variations
4 - Shadow Journal
5 - conography
6 - Vladimir’s Blues
7 - Arboretum
8 - Old Song
9 - Organum
10 - The Trees
11 - Written On The Sky
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Opening with a text from Franz Kafka over a sparse piano melody, the album moves through gorgeous, heart-wrenching string swells of ‘On The Nature Of Daylight’ (which quotes a tune from ‘Memoryhouse’); through to sparse but lyrical piano pieces; hazy, swirling atmospherics, avalanche pulse-beats and partially occluded melodies that recall Aphex twin’s ‘Ambient Works’ albums; and to reverberant organ / choir recordings.
Utilising piano, cello, violin and viola, alongside electronic beats (made using a variety of antique electronics and Reaktor), spoken word passages and the occasional field recording, other sounds were generated via old guitar pedals and vocoders. The organ music was made for a chapel near Tourtres in South-West France, whilst the environmental sounds are mainly recorded around London. The tone of the album is generally domnbeat – a series of bittersweet articulations that seem suspended somewhere between a certain dreamy sense of wonder / awe and a heavy melancholia.
• Max's music has been described as “Stunning” by Classic FM Magazine, “delicate and imaginatively poised” by The Wire, “stunningly beautiful” by Mojo, “deceptively tranquil, borderline supernatural music” by Uncut Magazine, “breathtaking” by Sleaze Magazine and The Observer noted that “It really is a thrill to hear how Richter creates such tension out of so little sound”.
• Max has produced and worked with some big names including Vashti Bunyan, Roni Size, The Twilight Sad and The Future Sound of London.
• Max Richter has also proved himself a skilled soundtrack composer. Recent film projects include Hope (2007), by Stanislaw Mucha and Krzysztof Piesciewicz, writer of the Three Colours trilogy for Krzysztof Kieslowski, Waltz with Bashir (2007), Ari Forman’s unique animated documentary for cinema on the Sabra and Shatilla massacres during the first Lebanon war which was nominated for the Palme D’Or prize at the last Cannes Film Festival.
• Upcoming projects include a new work for The Royal Ballet with choreographer Wayne Macgregor and fine artist Julian Opie, as well as a number of film commissions.
• The Blue Notebooks has not previously been available in any vinyl format.
"The Blue Notebooks is a modern masterpiece, a fully formed classical work that crosses through the widest emotional spectrum with a fairly minimalist style." DiS
"one of the most affecting and universal contemporary classical records in recent memory." 8.7/10 Pitchfork
"This is an album of pure, meditative loveliness." 4/5 Mojo
"full of deceitfully tranquil, borderline supernatural music: string-led and redolent of Michael Nyman, often augmented by the sort of pulses and field recordings favoured by Boards Of Canada. Outstanding." 4/5 Uncut
"Max Richter... evokes an almost overwhelming atmosphere of nostalgia and something forlorn in this beautifully recorded instrumental album." BBC online
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