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The Blue Notebooks (130701)

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An assembly of fragments utilising piano, cello, violin and viola, alongside antique electronics, spoken word passages and the occasional field recording. The album is a series of bittersweet articulations that seem suspended somewhere between a certain dreamy sense of wonder / awe and a heavy melancholia.

Peppered across the music like diary entries are a number of literary texts from Kafka and Czseslaw Milosz. These were recorded by acclaimed British actress, Tilda Swinton, long time collaborator with the late Derek Jarman, and star of 'Adaption', 'Orlando' and 'The Garden'. These brief passages muse over time, memory, and the impermanent nature of things.

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