Quiet protest is the beating heart of The Blue Notebooks, which has now been reissued on its 15th anniversary with additional material. "It's an attempt for music to comment on society," Richter has said. "Specifically, it's an anti-violence record." "Shadow Journal" is the album's protest song. In the opening bars, which are padded with ambient background chatter, Swinton recites the poem "At Dawn" from Miłosz's Unattainable Earth, a hallucinatory text about a city and some unnamed catastrophe, written in a confusion of past and present tense. The haunted composition that follows emulates the writing's lucid reverie and its projections of uncertainty via ominous bass rumbles and murky loops juxtaposed with a piercing violin melody. It captures the spirit of the "politics of unreality" that Richter says was emerging in 2003 around Iraq. (http://residentadvisor.net)
- Max RICHTER Compositeur, Piano, Electronics
- Tilda SWINTON Voice
- Louisa FULLER Violon
- Nathalie BONNER Violon
- John METCALFE Viola
- Philip SHEPPARD Violoncelle
- Chris WORSEY Violoncelle
- Ian BURDGE Violoncelle
- Lorenz DANGEL Conductor [Coll. Jazz]
- Dinah WASHINGTON Voix
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1
The Blue Notebooks (CD1)
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2
On The Nature Of Daylight
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3
Horizon Variations
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4
Shadow Journal
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5
Iconography
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6
Vladimir's Blues
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7
Arboretum
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8
Old Song
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9
Organum
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10
The Trees
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11
Written On The Sky
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A Catalogue Of Afternoons (CD2)
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2
On The Nature Of Daylight (Orchestral Version)
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3
Vladimir's Blues 2018
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4
On The Nature Of Daylight (Entropy)
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5
Vladimir's Blues (Jlin remix)
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6
Iconography (Konx-Om-Pax Remix)
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7
This Bitter Earth / On The Nature Of Daylight w/ Dinah Washington
