Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa LP

In 1984, ECM brought a new sound into the musical world with the release of Arvo Pärt’s Tabula Rasa, the first album on the label’s New Series imprint. The record also marked the intersection of some of the most longstanding, significant musical collaborators in the label’s history: Arvo Pärt, Gidon Kremer and Keith Jarrett.   "The album that brought Pärt’s name to the West, and to the world (…). Back in 1984 Tabula Rasa helped re-educate our ears and throw open the doors of our musical sensibilities to spatial domains that had otherwise been closed to us. Pärt’s near-minimalist “tintinnabulation” (a bell-like style based on a simple triad), his impeccable ear, sense of musical timing and deep spiritual engagement helped alter the way we listened in the late 20th century, cleansed us – or some of us – of the incessant need for musical “busyness”. Far from wearing off, the novelty of Pärt’s austerely meditative style has since become an essential component of our musical lives in the