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 which was subsequently rereleased as a special edition CD.

Tyran Grillo has written a short text on the history of the series for Sequenza 21. The full text is available here.

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