Harold Budd: A Brief Guide
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b. 24 May 1936, Los Angeles, California, USA. Pianist and ambient/new age composer Budd was already married with two small children when he gained a masters degree in musical composition, which ensured employment in the composition faculty of the California Institute of the Arts.

At the expense of rhythm, his sonic experiments on the Californian avant garde scene betrayed much of the hypnotic quality of Indian classical music in that single moods were investigated undynamically and often at considerable length.

Budd left the Institute in 1976 and signed a recording deal with Brian Eno's Obscure label (Eno had dedicated Through Hollow Lands from 1977"s Before And After Science to Budd).

Following the release of his debut The Pavilion Of Dreams, Budd collaborated with Eno on the pioneering Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror and, four years later, The Pearl (the acclaimed cover of which was illustrated by Russell Mills).

Budd's most conspicuous artistic tangent, however, was The Moon And The Melodies, recorded with the Cocteau Twins, which crept into the UK album chart in 1986.

Robin Guthrie of that band helped out on the excellent follow-up, White Arcades. After parting company with Eno in the 90s Budd has recorded for several leading avant garde labels, and with a wide range of artists including Andy Partridge, Ruben Garcia and Daniel Lentz, Richard Maxfield and Bill Nelson.

He returned to the solo format in autumn 2000 with his Atlantic Records debut, The Room.

Harold Budd Latest Release
Three White Roses and a Budd
cd ep

Track Listing: No Shade, No Shadow / Adrift Amidst Les Odalisques / The Airless Time / Blue Locus

Label: Twentythree

Catalogue Number: T016

Running Time: 26.29 m:s

Review: The price of this cd ep is worth the price alone for Harold Budd's delicate & ethereal piano playing. Soft and all enveloping, it underpins each song and caresses the listener. So beautiful - it leaves the listener wanting more collaborations from these players.

You won't buy a better cd single this year!

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3 White Roses and a Budd cd ep
Price: $ 17.99
(Price includes postage & packaging)

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Bill Nelson - Noise Candy
The limited edition 2002 release of Bill Nelson's Noise Candy (pictured), a 6 cd set that contains, in Bill's words: "blues / jazz grooves, mutant cowboy musics, psychedelic guitar workouts, kitsch hyper-pop bubblegum & electro-pastoral instrumentals".

Noise Candy is housed in a lavish embossed box and comes with a beautiful lyric and photo booklet.

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