The Blue Notebooks
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| Studio album by Max Richter | ||||
| Released | 26 February 2004 | |||
| Studio | Eastcote Studios (London, England) Hear No Evil Studios (London, England) |
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| Length | 40:29 | |||
| Label | 130701 | |||
| Producer | Max Richter | |||
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2014 reissue cover
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Pitchfork | 8.7/10 |
| PopMatters | (Favorable) |
| Stylus | B− |
The Blue Notebooks is the second album by British producer/composer Max Richter, released on 26 February 2004 on 130701, an imprint of FatCat Records.
Richter composed The Blue Notebooks in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He has described it as 'a protest album about Iraq, a mediation on violence – both the violence that I had personally experienced around me as a child and the violence of war, at the utter futility of so much armed conflict.' The album was recorded about a week after mass protests against the war.
The album features readings from Franz Kafka's The Blue Octavo Notebooks and Czesław Miłosz's Hymn of the Pearl and Unattainable Earth. Both readings are by the British actress Tilda Swinton.
The track "On the Nature of Daylight" was used in the 2006 Will Ferrell film Stranger than Fiction, in Disconnect (2012) directed by Henry Alex Rubin, in The Face of an Angel (2014) directed by Michael Winterbottom, in The Innocents (2016) directed by Anne Fontaine, and in Arrival (2016) directed by Denis Villeneuve . It also appears on the soundtrack of Martin Scorsese's 2010 film, Shutter Island; it was also mixed with Dinah Washington's vocal from her 1960 hit "This Bitter Earth" for the same movie and soundtrack.
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