The Blue Notebooks is the second album by British producer and composer Max Richter, released on 26 February 2004 on 130701, an imprint of FatCat Records. On 11 May 2018, a two-disc version of The Blue Notebooks was reissued to commemorate its fifteenth anniversary. It includes remixes by other artists, re-recordings, and two alternate arrangements of "On the Nature of Daylight".
Max Richter - On The Nature Of Daylight 6:37. Max Richter - On The Nature Of Daylight (Entropy) 7:01. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks 47:20. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks (Full Album) 2004 47:24. Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight 6:15. Max Richter The Blue Notebooks 47:21. Max Richter - The Blue Notebooks 1:25. Max Richter Shadow Journal 8:25. Written On The Sky - The Blue Notebooks (2004) 1:44.
Max Richter & Tilda Swinton. 2. On the Nature of Daylight. Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Philip Sheppard & Chris Worsey. Max Richter, Tilda Swinton, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Philip Sheppard & Chris Worsey. Max Richter & Tilda Swinton.
The Blue Notebooks - Студийный альбом от Max Richter. Вышел 26 февраля 2004г. В альбом вошло 20 треков. Продолжительность альбома: 01:25:37. Max Richter - On The Nature Of Daylight (HD) Live In Paris 2016.
Listen free to Max Richter – The Blue Notebooks (The Blue Notebooks, On the Nature of Daylight and more). All tracks written and produced by Max Richter. Texts from "Hymn of the Perl" and "Unattainable Earth" by Czeslaw Milosz and "The Blue Octavio Notebooks" by Franz Kafka, translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins (Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 1991). Recorded at Eastcote by Philip Bagnel and Hear No Evil Studios by Steve Parr. Mastered by Mandy Parnell at the Exchange.
Conceptually, Max Richter's The Blue Notebooks- German-born composer mixes contemporary classical compositions with electronic elements in a dreamscapy journalogue featuring excerpts from Kafka's The Blue Octavo Notebooks as narrated by Tilda Swinton- reads like a relentlessly precious endeavor, as new age music for grad students, the sort of record that sagely pats you on the back. It's a formula he singlemindedly exploits with staggering effectiveness for the balance of the album's 40+ minutes. Constituted mainly of sparse pieces that lean on string quartets and pianos in equal measure, The Blue Notebooks is a case study in direct, minor-key melody. Each of the piano pieces "Horizon Variations", "Vladimir's Blues" and "Written in the Sky" establish strong melodic motifs in under two minutes, all the while resisting additional orchestration.
Max Richter was among those who took to the streets that day. About a week later he made his second album, The Blue Notebooks. It was recorded in only three hours, with a string quintet and the actress Tilda Swinton reading from texts by Franz Kafka and the Nobel Prize-winning poet Czesław Miłosz "for a token fe. When the LP came out a year later, in March 2004, the killing of four Blackwater contractors in Fallujah sparked a renewed period of bloody violence.
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. The album's ten pieces were inspired by Kafka's Blue Octavo Notebooks, and quotes such as "Everyone carries a room about inside them. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing
