Budd, Harold

Harold Budd (born May 24, 1936) is an American ambient/avant-garde composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was raised in the Mojave Desert, and was inspired at an early age by the humming tone caused by wind blown across telephone wires. Sice then he plays ambient and Pianomusic, sometimes together with Brian Eno.
Budd, Harold
Brian Eno + Harold Budd - Ambient 2 The Plateaux of Mirror

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1980 / 2009
By 1980, Brian Eno had found his own voice and had his technique firmly in grasp. Having spent the better part of the '70s developing looping mechanisms and then laying the groundwork for ambient music with historic recordings such as "No Pussyfooting" (a collaboration with Robert Fripp), "Discreet Music", and "Music For Airports" and fusing these ideas with David Bowie's paranoid idiom (on Bowie's Berlin trilogy, amongst the most powerful music Bowie has ever done), Eno was at the height of his powers. It is into this regard that "The Plateaux of Mirror" was recorded. A collaboration with minimalist composer and pianist Harold Budd, this record is quite different from the rest.
What Budd provides is a stronger sense of evocative composition than Eno does-- this frees Eno to focus on technical details and technique. The result: a melancholy sort of record filled with moody interludes and tracks. Its far more theme-driven and less loop-driven than Eno's previous or contemporary work. This lends itself well to listeners who aren't really overly enamored with the idea of loop-based music. The work is particularly superb on the melancholy "First Light", the dark "Not Yet Remembered", and the noisy and mysterious "Wind in Lonely Places".
If there's a fault with this record, its that it has a bit of a sameness to it that prevents it from really shining, but its some beautiful music, and a great entry point into the catalogs of either Eno or the lesser known (but often equally brilliant) Budd.

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Brian Eno - Music for Films III

Artist: Brian Eno
P: 1988
A collection of tracks by Brian Eno and musicians associated with him over for use in soundtracks,  or as atmospheres in movies.

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Harold Budd + Brian Eno - The Pearl

Artist: Harald Budd / Brian Eno
P: 1984
This sublime, tranquil recording features 11 haunting ambient tone poems for treated piano. They are crafted from simple chords, arpeggios, or melodies that are frequently trailed by delicate electronic whispers to produce dreamy results. Even though Budd and Eno chose to compose and record in a minimalist style, their gorgeous, moody music evokes so much more, for the reverberating spaces between the notes are just as important as the notes themselves. In an interesting experiment, both "Against the Sky" and "An Echo of Night" explore the same melancholic musical theme in different settings--the former is a sparse piano piece with gentle electronic treatments, the latter is a murky synth work set against a nocturnal outdoor backdrop. (Budd later explored the theme again as the ethereal elegy "Olancha Farewell" on his 1986 solo album, Lovely Thunder.) Beautifully understated, the slow-motion ballet of The Pearl is a piece of striking ambient impressionism that was highly original in its day, well before the myriads of New Age imitators its composers spawned, and it remains fresh and vital two decades later.

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Harold Budd + Clive Wright - Little Windows

Artist: Harold Budd
P: 2010
Little Windows completes the trilogy begun with A Song for Lost Blossoms and carried through their previous album Candylion. Little Windows was recorded especially for John Diliberto's popular, syndicated Ambient music radio show, Echoes Radio. These recordings were first heard on Echoes Radio in Fall 2009. Little Windows showcases these artist's individual talents more so than their two previous albums. Only two of the nine tracks are collaborative Budd/Wright works. Four tracks are fully fleshed out Clive Wright solo compositions recorded at his Desert Sky Studio. Three tracks are Harold Budd solo at the piano -- just Harold with a beautiful sounding piano in a beautiful sounding room at Knobworld Studios, Silverlake. This CD does not offer a true collaboration, but rather separte songs from each artist. All the performances are solid and have Budd's characteristic syle of ambient piano. Wright displays interesting compostions with electric guitar with ebow, and electronic distortions similar to the styling of Robin Guthrie who has also collaborated with Budd in the past. Overall a solid and enjoyable production.

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Harold Budd + Eraldo Bernocchi - Music for Fragmenst from the Inside

Artist: Harold Budd + Eraldo Bernocchi
P:
2005
Recorded live 26.06.03 at Palazzo Delle Papesse Centro D’Arte Contemporanea on the occasion of the exhibition “Palazzo Delle Liberta” for the video installation "Fragments from the inside" by Petulia Mattioli aka PM Koma and original poems by Mara Bressi.
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Harold Budd + Garcia + Lentz - Music for 3 Pianos

Artist: Harold Budd + Ruben Garcia + Daniel Lentz
P:
1992
Music for Three Pianos' is a very calming and relaxing CD. I don't really consider it an 'ambient' CD in the Brian Eno & Harold Budd tradition; the tracks have more of a modern, classical music feel to me. The CD cover indicates that the performers are Harold Budd, Ruben Garcia and Daniel Lentz and the inside cover indicates that all compositions and performances are by these 3 same individuals.

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Harold Budd + Hector Zaxou - Glyph

Artist: Harold Budd
P: 2009
Glyph is unquestionably a must have, along with Luxa, Plateaux and White Arcades, those being the top five HB discs so far.
 

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Harold Budd + Zeitgeist - She is a Phantom

Artist: Harold Budd + Zeitgeist
P: 1994
Released in 1994, this album features Budd performing original compositions with the contemporary music quartet Zeitgeist, a group who play woodwinds, keyboards, and percussion, including mallet instruments. Most of the album was written in 1991 at a time when Budd had returned to writing music for ensembles. While indulging in the minimalist aesthetics that epitomize his work, this album showcases his ideas in a different spectrum than his ambient albums. These 18 compositions average two to two-and-a-half minutes in length, some exploring one theme, others compacting two or three into the same time frame. Unlike many other minimalists, pianist/composer Budd does not belabor his points. She Is a Phantom is generally characterized by mellow tracks such as the ghostly haze of "Nearly Awakened." But there are exceptions, including the gracefully spiraling clarinet melody over piano chords in the opening track and the eclectic "Like Perfume," which segues between an abstract percussive tapestry, a clarinet solo, and a poetry reading accentuated by a marching snare. Four of the songs feature Budd reciting poetry, and the vocal inclusion is not intrusive, blending in with the musical backdrops. This album is perhaps one of Budd's most cryptic works, particularly as some tracks melt into others. While not as easily accessible as many past efforts, it is a gratifying journey nonetheless. It just requires patience and open ears. --Bryan Reesman

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Harold Budd - By the Dawn's Early Light

Artist: Harold Budd
P: 1991
Always an outlier, Harold Budd enjoys confounding conventional wisdom about ambient music, new age, what have you. Hence his decision in the early '90s to record an album, for Brian Eno's Opal label, devoted to the American landscape--an album of often vaporous melodies intent on figuring the land's geography and history. Budd's a self-admitted devotee of soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone, and his titles alone help conjure the mythical west ("Distant Lights of Olancha Recede," "Place of Dead Roads"), as well as its odd, modern developments ("Aztec Hotel"). Occasional spoken material, a kind of existential cowboy poetry read by Budd, benefits from guitarist Bill Nelson and pedal-steel player B. J. Cole, not to mention viola, harp, and the composer's own array of keyboards. --Marc Weidenbaum

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Harold Budd - In the Mist

Artist: Harold Budd
P: 2011
Harold Budd is a one of a kind modern neo-classical artist creating high-callibre and complex music with unique and subtle tension and abstraction, and simultaneous almost-pastoral but as-often otherworldly mood. Within the first three notes of a Budd composition, with trademark fresh-as-improvisation sound, whether deep dark or bright light, the listener is transcended to an enlightened state within the balance of empty space, sometimes wistful nostalgia, frequent idealism and always persistent love and beauty.In The Mist is the artist purely distilled. It is the music of Harold Budd at its most raw, emotive and minimalist. In addition, Harold is writing for string quartet. In The Mist is comprised of three distinct movements. Tracks 1-5, The Whispers, are minimalist, tonal, sometimes tone-bending piano compositions. Tracks 6-8, The Gun Fighters, are more dramatic piano compositions with sparse electronic effects and percussive elements. Tracks 9-13, Shadows, are new Harold Budd string quartets, which add an additional component of interest - minimal, abstract, moody compositions.All Music Guide calls Harold "an American ambient/neo-classical composer". He is absolutely the World's number one minimalist, ambient, modern classical composer. That said, he abhors the word ambient. "Ambient: Everytime I read this word I cringe: I've been kidnapped by something I neither know of nor care about; it's better by 1000 times than "New Age" from 2 decades ago, but still..." Although his work is often called ambient, minimal and classical, these labels do no justice to the quiet beauty and uniqueness of the work.

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Harold Budd - Jane 1-11

Artist: Harold Budd
P: 2013

This release from the Avant-Garde/Ambient composer. Jane 1-11 is at least among Harold's very best work and may be his all-time best. Start to finish, this is Harold at his most inspired and most tapped in to his unique gift. There is no other Harold Budd record on which he so strongly expresses his singular avant sensibility.
On the eleven sequentially titled pieces, Jane 1-11, we find minimal compositions of cozy, hushed and serene keys, droning pads, and sparse droplets of sound. The music flows, swells and ebbs through the plateaus and valleys of silence. The plucked strings, struck marimbas and various synthetic instruments often wonder around the main theme, which is less aimless and more contemplating in nature. There is plenty of reverb, but it is administered with care, like a thin layer of ointment on a slow healing wound. The rest is explored through ongoing resonance, harmony and meticulous stereo field placement. And although he seems to reject the prescribed categorization of styles, with most pieces [especially the gorgeous Jane 8], Budd seems to define what was once proclaimed by the ambient movement itself: music that is as ignorable as it is interesting.

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Harold Budd - Jane 12-21

Artist: Harold Budd
P: 2014

JANE 12-21 is the companion to JANE 1-11. Minimal, modern classical piano and avant-garde electronics by the master. 'It's simple. I broke out and broke back to my earlier days: A triangle of risk, improvisation and joy - as I say, very simple. My rules to myself were: No plan, no notes, no ideas, no microphones; except for Jane 1 I stuck to it. My other rule - the most important one - was: At least one piece per day, finished, mixed and not to be revisited again. Jane 7, 8, 9 were done in one day, Brad Ellis was my guide through this: An untiring day, ready to go again. To quote a letter to me from Mark Tobey: 'It fell off the edge of my brush.' - Harold Budd.

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Harold Budd - Luxa

Artist: Harold Budd
P: 1996
Harold Budd is not going to set the world on fire with his piano technique, but then again he would be the first to admit to that. He has a very minimalistic way of of playing the piano, a very much soft pedaled approach. When he performs you have feel within that time stands very much still.
 

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Harold Budd - The Room

Artist: Harold Budd
P: 2000
Harold Budd is the master of the few tones, his Spartan pieces are as atmospheric as they are not kitschy, not too shallow, but not exhausting, not too melancholic, but also not too naively lulling. You can easily hide the music, but it is at the highest level. Compared to his 80s works like "White Arcades", the piano is more in the foreground again, but there are also unobtrusive keyboard sounds, sometimes there are pure keyboard tracks; instead of building a whole world of sounds from keyboard sounds, he simply lets individual chords sound with a single synth sound. It sounds clearer and more minimalistic.

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Harold Budd - The Serpent in Quicksilver + Abondoned Cities

Artist: Harold Budd
P:
1981 / 1984 / 1989
Two of his early Ambient recordings.
Long before ambient music was popular, this are real two gems in this style.

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Harold Budd - Walk into my Voice

Artist: Harold Budd
P: 1996
English spoken poems interluded with amient tracks by Budd.

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V/A - Ambient 3 The Music of Changes
Artist: Eno, Budd, Laswell, Irmin Schmidt u.a.
P: 1994
What was uptodate at the electronic scene way back in 1994 can be heard on this release by Virgin Records.
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V/A - Lunar Twilight

Artist: Stearns, Serrie, Roach, Jeff Pearce, H.Budd u.a.
P: 2001

Lunar Twilight - Ambient Visions is a collection of the some of the finest examples of the style called 'ambient' or 'space music'. Relaxing, spacious, and soothing, the perfect night music after a busy day. Lunar Twilight includes ambient pioneers Harold Budd, Steve Roach, Michael Stearns, John Serrie and Jeff Pearce. Enjoy a true journey ...

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Various Artists - A Brief History of Ambient Vol. 1

Artist: TD, Ashra, Eno, Froese u.a.
P: 1993
What you get is a fairly decent ambient selection from Virgin's rich and varied back catalogue from the 70's, 80's and 90's. Some of it naturally sounds a little dated, but it is a history lesson so what do you expect.

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Various Artists - Drop 5

Artist: Various Artists
P: 1996
This comes out of the house of Fripp, Eno, Budd, Laraaji and some more. With some new remixes.

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