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Harold Budd; Ruben Garcia; Daniel Lentz |
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Info: Biography, Pictures, Discography of all CDs & DVDs |
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| 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.As his career progressed, his compositions became increasingly minimal."The Oak of the Golden Dreams" was based on the Balinese "Slendro" scale.Composer and recording artist
Two years later, while still retaining his teaching career, he resurfaced as a composer.Two years later Harold Budd's debut album The Pavilion of Dreams was released.Since then he has developed a unique and powerful style of ambient music.His two collaborations with Brian Eno, The Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl, established his trademark atmospheric piano style.On Lovely Thunder he introduced subtle electronic textures.His album Avalon Sutra from 2004 was billed as "Harold Budd's Last Recorded Work" by the record label Samadhi Sound.In February 2007, David Sylvian's independent record label Samadhisound released Perhaps, a live recording of Budd's improvised performance in tribute to his late friend (and associate teacher at the then newly formed California Institute of Arts) James Tenney.Recorded at CalArts in December 06, the album is only available as a digital download.Samadhisound released a podcast of Harold Budd in conversation with Akira Rabelais in April 2007.Harold said although he had believed at the time of recording Avalon Sutra that it would be his last album, he no longer felt that way.Darla Records released two CDs by Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd in June 2007, After The Night Falls and Before The Day Breaks."And Then I Turned Away".Three White Roses and a Budd (CD Single, with Fila Brazillia and Bill Nelson) Twentythree Records
2002 Agua (live at the Lanzarote Music Festival, Dec.Harold Budd and Eugene Bowen contributed the track "Wonder's Edge" to the Cold Blue label compilation.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Click here for the Harold Budd news archive.Samadhisound CDs can be bought online in our Shop.Syndicate this site: RSS 2.An explanation of what RSS is can be found here.In so much as this, his reputation has not seemed to have spread far and wide enough to earn him a specific official page.From what I can see, he has catalogues on New Albion and SamahdiSound.The Moon And The Melodies (LP)
Virgin France S.By The Dawn's Early Light (CD, Album)
Warner Bros.La Bella Vista (CD)
Shout!Marco Polo (CD)
Samarca, The Valley Of...Musiques De Nuit (CD)
Bloody And Blunt, Not ...Chicago '82: A Dip in the Lake (Cass)
Excerpt from Children ...Angels In The Architecture (CD)
The Gunfighter, The Pl...Angels In The Architecture (LP)
The Gunfighter, The Pl...Music For Films III (Cass)
Balthus Bemused By Col...Music For Films III (CD)
Balthus Bemused By Col...CD)
Cartago Sand Dancing, ...Brief History Of Ambient Volume 1 (2xCD)
Flowered Knife Shadows...I: Instrumental (3xCD + Box)
A Stream With Bright F...Brief History Of Ambient Volume 3: The Music Of Changes (2xCD)
Wind In Lonely Fences
Virgin Records America, Inc.Future Perfect (CD)
Western Island Of Appl...Future: A Journey Through The Electronic Underground (2xCD)
Their Memories
Virgin Records America, Inc.Virgin Records America, Inc.The Morning After (2xCD)
As Fast As I Could Loo...CD)
Cartago Sand Dancing, ...Uni("Please enter search text."Please enter your zip code.To change your area, please visit My Account and update your Profile.If you have a My Ticketmaster account, this artist will be added to My Alerts in My Ticketmaster.Your info may also be shared with the artist.If you are under 13 years old, you must not fill in this form or provide any information about yourself.Click the Add to My Alerts button above.Walk Into My Voice (American Beat ...Top Downloaded Songs
1.His music, a sparse and tonal wash of keyboard treatments, was inspired by a boyhood spent listening to the buzz of telephone wires near his home in the Mojave Desert town of Victorville, California (though he was born in nearby Los Angeles).Though interested in music from an early age, Budd was 36, already married and with children of his own, by the time he graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Musical Composition in 1966.Flat Major Chord and Lirio around the area.In 1970, he began a teaching career at the California Institute of Arts, but continued to compose while there, writing Madrigals of the Rose Angel in 1972.Abandoned Cities), Harold Budd again worked with Eno on 1984's The Pearl.In 2004 Budd decided to retire, claiming he had said all he wanted to, and that he "didn't mind disappearing."As Long as I Can See My Breath, appeared on David Sylvian's Samhadi Sound imprint as a double disc.The album featured 14 new pieces, some recorded solo, some recorded with saxophonist Jon Gibson, and some with a string quartet.Use of this site is subject to express terms of use, which prohibit commercial use of this site.All Music Guide is a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC.URL for paid search terms.Budd's music has the effect of extending the moment just before you fall into a deep sleep when your brain is dreaming but your body is awake.This album represents Budd's return to composing music for ensembles, following a series of collaborations with luminaries such as Brian Eno and Cocteau Twins.In 2000, Budd released his first record since 1996's Luxa.Atlantic, showed that he hadn't lost a single ounce of his talent for simple, beautiful melody.We're treated to a fantastic downtempo treatment of the album's title track courtesy of Fila Brazillia.Harold Budd, who talks about how he moved from composing as part of the American avant garde to settle on his unique style of piano performance, how he came to meet Brian Eno, and what effect Eno had on his work.He also talks about his recently released solo piano album produced by Daniel Lanois.Host
Chris Douridas
Chris was KCRW's second music director and host of Morning Becomes Eclectic in the nineties.Transcripts
Neither tapes nor transcripts of KCRW music programs are available."This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.Harold Budd has made to modern music, his seemingly effortless take on minimalism and ambience imbuing this often academic genre with all the warmth and humility so often missing from the work of his contemporaries.Best known for his collaborations with Brian Eno and the Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie, Budd seems to have reached equilibrium, announcing that this remarkable album (released on David Sylvian's fledgling, impressive "Samadhi Sound" imprint) is to be his last recorded work.Budd's effervescent Piano cascades and panoramic soundscapes, drifting off into sublime, almost unbearable nostalgia and reflection that are signposted with track titles that open the imagination up to nameless, fading memories.Budd has spent a musical lifetime striving to perfect.And it was only in 1978, with the release of "The Pavilion of Dreams", his first record, that the work of this genial Californian began to find an international audience.Since then Harold Budd has worked with The Cocteau Twins, Andy Partridge of XTC, and has continued to release a steady flow of solo releases as well. |
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