Customer Reviews
Tracks 1, 2 and 11 - By: Sidney Carton, 05 Jan 2009 
From alll the five star reviews here on Amazon, my expectations turned out to be too high for this album. Tracks 1, 2 & 11 are fantastic. The rest of the songs aren't bad, but for the most part they start off promising & then fail to go anywhere. The clicking type writer is overused & distracts more than it adds.
Along a similar vein, I believe fans of tracks 1, 2 & 11 will be much better served by Brian Eno's "The Pearl" or "Music for Airports", Harold Budd's "Perhaps", Goldmund's "Corduroy Road" (available for download on iTunes), Arvo Pärt's "Alina" or "Miserere", or Peter Gabriel's "Passion".
An elegeic masterpiece - By: T. Almy, 08 Dec 2006 
Like Memoryhouse, Max Richter's sadly deleted first CD, this album is suffused with a forlorn melancholia. The quotes from Franz Kafka (beautifully read by Tilda Swinton), compound the feeling that this is a nostalgic homage to the lost world of East European cultures that were shattered by Stalinist purges & Nazi pogroms. The standout track, 'The Shadow Journal', is impossibly beautiful, distilling the album's sense of loss into an achingly sad refrain for violin and, suprisingly, a jay!
Smalll but perfectly formed.
A stunning album - By: , 10 Sep 2005 I can't recommend this album highly enough. The 4th track, Shadow Journal, is possibly one of the most beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard. Difficult to define or put into a category but I'll make a stab at it by callling it a mixture of classical, electronica & ambient/chill out. Simply stunning. £12 very well spent..
Superb modern piano - By: Miss K C Heese, 09 Feb 2005 This album takes a while to get in to but is perfect bedtime music or just for relaxing. Nice modern piano but also a mix of atmospheric sounds & instruments to take you to another realm. Selecta.
