Pärt Arvo: Tabula Rasa (LP)

Vinyl reissue in facsimile gatefold edition, with the original introductory texts in 1984, ECM brought a completely new sound dimension to the music world with the release of Arvo Pärt's Tabula rasa and launched the 'ECM New Series' label with the album. To mark the 40th anniversary of the New Series, this special vinyl edition presents the record in its original form. The album also marks the intersection of some of the label's longest-standing and most important musical companions in its 50-year history: Arvo Pärt, Gidon Kremer and Keith Jarrett. "Pärt's music reaches far beyond the conspiratorial community of connoisseurs who generally support contemporary classical music. He is a composer who speaks in hauntingly clear, familiar tones without duplicating the music of the past. He has made a musical discovery that can hardly be put into words - something to do with the power of music to erase the rigidity of space and time. One by one, his chords silence the noise of the self and bind the mind to an eternal presence." (The New Yorker) "The album that brought Pärt's name to the West and the world (...). Back in 1984, Tabula rasa helped to re-educate our ears and open the doors of our musical sensibilities to spatial realms that would otherwise have remained closed to us. This is without a shadow of a doubt one of the great recordings of the last century."