![]() ![]() ![]() Richter's music embraces all of the sounds that had an impact on him, but more important is the emotional impact that The Blue Notebooks has on its listeners despite its high-concept origins, it's quite an affecting album. However, his sound works so well and seems so natural because he's not trying to be overtly experimental the album ranges from pieces with little or no electronic elements, such as the piano-driven "Arboretum," to "Old Song," which is based on a busy, chilly beat that sounds like dripping water. As other reviews have mentioned, Richter tends to be a more traditional-minded composer than influences like Brian Eno, Philip Glass and Steve Reich. The album is simpler than Memoryhouse, with a smaller ensemble of musicians playing on it and a shorter running time, but its restraint makes it a more powerful work - it's so beautiful and fully realized that it doesn't need to be showy. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one's ears and listens, say at night, when everything round about is quiet, one hears, for instance, the rattling of a mirror not quite firmly fastened to the wall," which are read by actress Tilda Swinton, define the spare, reflective intimacy of The Blue Notebooks. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. The album's ten pieces were inspired by Kafka's Blue Octavo Notebooks, and quotes such as "Everyone carries a room about inside them. "Written on the Sky" Though his evocative debut album Memoryhouse introduced Max Richter's fusion of classical music, electronica and found-sounds (a style he calls "post-Classical"), it's his follow-up, The Blue Notebooks, that really showcases the style's - and Richter's - potential. ![]() Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks (2004) Written by bluesever Monday, 16 July 2012 14:17 - Last Updated Monday, 07 April 2014 19:32 Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks (2004) 1. ![]()
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