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  One of the 20th century's most sublime pieces of music for piano, The Book of Sounds by German composer Hans Otte (1926-2007), is available again on audiophile 2xLP vinyl. Licensed from Kuckuck, this edition includes a 12-page full-color booklet with contemporary liner note contributions by Terry Riley, Dustin O'Halloran, and Otte’s biographer Ingo Ahmels, as well as a 1982 Village Voice live review and photos courtesy of his daughter Silvia.
  
  Remastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at Black Knoll.
  
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  "A key work of 20th century piano music" - Universal Edition Vienna
  
  "This work, a masterpiece of restraint, reflects the musical imagination of someone who has spent long periods in the quiet recesses of the mind." - Terry Riley
  
  "Its hard to put into words exactly what his work brings to me, but there is a sense of meditative peace mixed with a deep questioning of the world. I find it transcendental, music that does not weave a human story, but a deep internal view and simultaneously vast as the cosmos." - Dustin O'Halloran
  
  "I would say that behind my artistic work, as an aim or hope, is the need to find myself. In other words: despite all the separating structures, the division of all the work, the ideologies, fixed ideas, systems, despite the state and everything that ceaselessly tries to separate and divide us, I fundamentally want to be complete." - Hans Otte (1979)
  
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