Through multiple evolutions along decades, with a refined combination of harmonies, a deep sense of space, a phenomenology of time and bright sonic manipulations based on acoustic timbres, Japanese artists invite the listener to enlightened and intuitive inner promenades.
Tag: Harold Budd
ASC :: Original Soundtrack (A Strangely Isolated Place)
While much piano-based music can tend towards the precious, laying over the listener an insipid blanket of saccharine sadness, or blithe brightness, ASC’s OST strikes a nicely poised ambiguity…
3View :: Cold Blue Music
Reaffirming its status as one of the most exciting innovations in the recording and marketing of modern composition since the introduction of magnetic tape, Cold Blue Music‘s series […]
Harold Budd & Jane Maru :: Jane 1-11 / Harold Budd :: Jane 12-21 (Darla)
Seeds float on their fluff like a hot summertime snowfall, and Budd’s airy synthesizer bears them that much further afield. Our world and welcome to it. […]
V/A :: Lost in the Humming Air: Music Inspired by Harold Budd (Oktaf)
Lost in the Humming Air is a credit to the lasting debt these artists are due a pioneer in their field without being beholden to […]
Harold Budd :: Avalon Sutra / As Long As I Can Hold My Breath (Samadhisound, 2CD)
(04.28.05) Samadhisound’s fourth release (issued in late 2004) appears in the form of Harold Budd’s last: Avalon Sutra, a double CD release featuring fourteen of […]