The Blue Notebooks - 15 Years: Vinyl 2LP Hall & Oates and ‘Metal Mickey’

and ‘Metal Mickey’

Always known for their uncompromising social and political messages

While emphasizing as usual the Great American Songbook – “Gone With The Wind

which is reflected in the sound of the album

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The Blue Notebooks - 15 Years: Vinyl 2LP Hall & Oates and ‘Metal Mickey’The Blue Notebooks was originally composed in the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Richter has described it as "a protest album about Iraq, a mediation on violence both the violence that I had personally experienced around me as a child and the violence of war, at the utter futility of so much armed conflict." The album was recorded about a week after mass protests against the war. It features readings from Franz Kafka's The Blue Octavo Notebooks