To give a flavour, Deutsche Grammophon acquired Richter's catalogue a while back and
reissued this one in 2014, but it originally came out on Fat Cat about a
decade ago. From the liner note, we learn that The Blue Notebooks was:
Anyhow, this is pretty great. Contemporary classical I guess but really just music.
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... his first with Fat Cat Records and featured actress Tilda Swinton reading extracts from Kafka. "One of the reasons I sent my demo to Fat Cat was because I heard the first Sigur Ros album and it sounded to me like Arvo Part with guitars" ...A linked set of short pieces - ranging from just over a minute to about eight and a half minutes at the upper end - taking in piano, electronics, violin, viola and cello, there is an element of minimalism to The Blue Notebooks, but also a dramatic expressionism in the building and repeating lines that run through it which takes on overtones of the spiritual ... which altogether makes Arvo Part a pretty reasonable reference point, with the electronic elements subtle and used only for shading and texture rather than being in the foreground, although Richter's work is maybe more immediately penetrable.
Anyhow, this is pretty great. Contemporary classical I guess but really just music.
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