HaroldBudd (born May 24, 1936) is an American ambient/avant-garde composer.
In spite of this, Budd's soundtrack to the film Mysterious Skin (a collaboration with Robin Guthrie) and Music for 'Fragments from the Inside' (with Eraldo Bernocchi) were both released in 2005.
The HaroldBudd track "Balthus Bemused By Colour" from his album The White Arcades is included as part of the 70 Minutes of Madness DJ mix by Coldcut.
HaroldBudd, a modern poet of the piano, has been playing music since his teens, yet it was not until his late 30s that he found his true voice as a composer.
The same year, Budd and Eno worked together on "The Pearl", refining their approach on "Plateaux" with 13 poetically titled and exquisitely crafted glimpses of enchanted landscapes and underwater domains.
In 1986, Budd attracted well-deserved attention for his collaboration with The Cocteau Twins on "The Moon and the Melodies".
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HaroldBudd returns with his first solo album in four years and it's a timely reminder of how potent this pianist's ambient orchestrations remain.
Although Budd himself would never use the term "ambient," he'll be forever tarred with that brush, having released The Plateaux of Mirror, one of Brian Eno'sAmbient Music series in the 1970s.
HaroldBudd's work is that of meditation and beauty, yet he is able to evoke emptiness and space with his careful compositions.
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HaroldBudd writes, "One shatters glass in a vacuum, then finds the art part among the shards." For more than 20 years, Budd has been searching through the debris to develop only the most mystical and beautiful works of musical art.
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.
Both "Breathless...I" and "Pantomime..." are featured on Budd's album She Is A Phantom, which he composed specifically for Zeitgeist.
From this first act of defiance, Budd helped give rise to a new school of moody ambientminimalism; his droning 1970 piece for the Buchla Electronic Music System, The Oak of the Golden Dreams, is a direct precursor of Brian Eno's landmark Music for Films.
Furthermore, Budd's transparent texturalism — from his 1980 landmark collaboration with Eno, The Plateaux of Mirrors (EG), to last year's concept album, The Room (Atlantic) — has influenced hundreds of electronic bands and artists including Aphex Twin, Seefeel, and Scanner.
As a music and visual-art student in the early '60s, Budd fell under the spell of John Cage's lexicon-smashing philosophies and Morton Feldman's postserialist compositional style.
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Reflective, simmering with a unique sense of purpose, HaroldBudd's Perhaps offers 13 new piano improvisations â” each expanding on the hushed, spare soundscapes that have been the hallmark of samadhisound releases from the likes...
Harold's new album, 'Avalon Sutra,' on David Sylvian's SamadhiSound label is a complex work, with beautiful orchestrations.
These include Budd's first string quartet compositions in over 30 years, of which he is 'shamelessly proud,' and they were the impetus for...
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
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Features Marco Polo, Brian Eno, Roger Eno, No-Man, David Torn, Frank Zappa, John Zorn, HaroldBudd, Wim Mertens, Percy Howard, Henry Kaiser, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Thurston Moore, Durutti Column, Embryo, Third Ear Band and many more!
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Along with Brian Eno, with whom he has collaborated on several projects including Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirrors, HaroldBudd stands as one...
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