authorial intent means nothing!
― Dan I., Tuesday, 13 February 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
(tbf to budd tho, i am repulsed by everything else in the world that is called 'ambient'--he alone is a shiny muted jewel)
― Dan I., Tuesday, 13 February 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
hahaha, watch Clive Wright's Youtube videos sometime
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 21:55 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYJkH6mdbAY
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
it's got the desert, and UFOs, and a dog... I love this video so much
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
harold budd, internationally known, worked with lots of famous people, will be in the history books forever re: ambient music
but yet...is he the most underrated musician...OF ALL TIME?
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 20 January 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
if there was a terrible library of alexandria-style fire and all of the records of the 1970s were about to burn up, i think i might seriously select Pavilion of Dreams as the one piece of music from the decade that NEEDS to be saved.
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 20 January 2019 16:54 (five years ago) link
Amen, KM
― So, This Leaked (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 20 January 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
so often he's been mentioned as an afterthought to Eno (although, anecdotally, that seems to be becoming less common when i see his name mentioned). but Eno could never compose anything like Pavilion of Dreams - it's from a different language or planet entirely. i'm amazed at how cohesive Pavilion is, over the course of 47-minutes, despite covering so much musical.
and the Rosetti Noise/Chrystal Garden & a Coda section, especially, is some of the most beautiful music of the 20th century
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 20 January 2019 19:33 (five years ago) link
it's a testament to the greatness of the entire thing that Rosetti is pure aural bliss but it took years and years of listening for me to recognize it on its own - by the time it arrives in the recording, 25 minutes in, i'm almost always lost in entrancement. it has a nearly psychotropic effect, this album
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 20 January 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
it's also, without fail, one of the few albums i own that makes everyone who hears it (anyone who dares set foot in my tiny apartment, that is) say "what IS this?". i was on a long car ride a few months ago and put it on quietly when a passenger in the backseat fell asleep. when he woke up later he said "what WAS that we were listening to?"
it's like the incredibly subdued, peaceful album equivalent of the high fidelity/beta band scene
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 20 January 2019 19:37 (five years ago) link
eh, he's ok, not sure about most underrated. he's found his level.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Sunday, 20 January 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
album: classicvocals: dud
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 21 January 2019 00:21 (five years ago) link
As wonderful as Pavilion of Dreams may be. It is definitely very exquisite slumber music. But my fave has always been Plateaux of Mirror. The aural equivalent of jumping in a bed of cottonwool, the translation of the absinth experience into sound. Wooly, otherworldly bliss. How I love that piano sound.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 21 January 2019 19:09 (five years ago) link
i listened to 'lovely thunder' after recently rewatching the first twin peaks and couldn't believe how similar the vibe to badalmenti's soundtrack was. i know comparing things to twin peaks is super boring but the similarity, to me, was remarkable. also it was good if a bit cheesy
also the pavilion vocals are great! the pearl is really good too. also will stan hard for parts of 'avalon sutra'
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Monday, 21 January 2019 19:41 (five years ago) link
that hourlong mix of 'as long as i can hold my breath' is so good
― Karl Malone, Monday, 21 January 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
The Little Glass with Akira Rabelais is still my favourite.
― pomenitul, Monday, 21 January 2019 19:44 (five years ago) link
Xpost exactly. I could listen to that all day
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Monday, 21 January 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
RIP
― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Fuck
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
wait. . . really??? source???
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
Man, this is really sad.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
A friend of his announced on FB he died last night.
― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
aaargh
Moon & The Melodies LP is sitting about 5 feet away from me as I type this.
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:33 (three years ago) link
So very saddened by this news.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
oh no! don't know as many of his records as i feel i should tbh, but i did see him play once as part of jah wobble's solaris project with jaki liebezeit, bill laswell and graham haynes
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
Ah shit. Rip.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
cheers to him for a long and prolific life, and a legacy of great records I still listen to all the time
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:55 (three years ago) link
84! He played a blinder. I'm going to listen to The Pavilion of Dreams all night.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 20:57 (three years ago) link
RIP — he gave so much, don't think I've heard a bad Budd record.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
― Karl Malone
i made a mistake above, corrected it now.
RIP Harold Budd. you added so much to the lives of so many
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:32 (three years ago) link
A true genius. Just had this come out last Friday, a full collaboration with Guthrie (recorded in 2013)
https://robinguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/another-flower
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
Harold Budd & Albert Ayler playing together in US army bands & repping each other... legit too heartwarming to handle pic.twitter.com/NIhzWEcxjW— Good Willsmith (@GoodWillsmith) December 8, 2020
As well as Ambient 2 I used to have the Pearl and the White Arcades years ago. Need to look at re-aquiring them, was very fond of them.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
Mark Rothko's advice to a young Harold Budd pic.twitter.com/PFrtdWFp75— sophiepenrose (@sophiepenrose) December 8, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
A bummer. The Plateaux of Mirror is one of my favorite night chill-out albums.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
Oh damn it, so many people this year :(
I love Harold's music so much. On one occasion I named a tune after him, which I kinda had to considering it featured a fairly sizeable loop of one of his tunes. Dovetails with Ned's post too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ7yeSI9-g8
― Maresn3st, Tuesday, 8 December 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
I ate a sandwich next to Harold Budd in catering at a festival, and with a mouthful of turkey said "I love falling asleep to your records. Its so nice" and he replied "You look like you haven't slept in weeks" RIP— Ryley walker (@ryleywalker) December 8, 2020
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Tuesday, 8 December 2020 23:34 (three years ago) link
only hung with him once. simultaneously so chilled out and so edgy. weirdly cool and dangerously charming
had been listening to 'In The Mist' a bunch this week. seemed all over the place when I got it, it is perfect now. while going backwards chronological today playing 'Perhaps' only once wasn't enough. saving 'La Bella Vista' for last though
https://www.vvdailypress.com/news/20171223/famed-composer-harold-budd-reflects-on-boyhood-in-1940s-victorville
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 04:57 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3aC_wezrvc
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Wednesday, 9 December 2020 05:06 (three years ago) link
After 40 years of bedtime ambient music, I have undoubtedly spent more hours listening to Harold Budd than any other artist by far.
(Who is this Harold Hurd that autocorrect wants me to talk about?)
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 06:10 (three years ago) link
2020 isn’t done sucking just yet, I guess. A few jumbled initial thoughts:
1) As soon as I saw this news, I went not to the Eno collaborations — but The White Arcades, which conjures such a magical atmosphere. Even with cheap synths, the man was peerless.
2) The live version of Children on a Hill from 1982 that Milton turned me onto many moons (and melodies) ago might be my favorite thing by him — the subtle use of harmonizers here is really extraordinary, and even extended to 22 minutes, it reminds me that his voice and compositional style are criminally underappreciated.
3) The essay I did for Perhaps’ original issue is the only one-sheet I ever did – and it still gives me goosebumps when I remember Samadhi Sound’s press guy telling me Harold was “over the moon” when he read it.
I'll miss him.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 18:09 (three years ago) link
I love Perhaps so much — is your one-sheet online anywhere?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 18:23 (three years ago) link
Shockingly, it is: http://www.samadhisound.com/haroldbudd/news/harold_budd_perhaps.html
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 18:34 (three years ago) link
dammit I first read the ILE Covid thread and thought he was only infected... RIP
― Dinsdale, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:45 (three years ago) link
Fuck, I didn't realize it was COVID. That depresses me even more.
Saw this in the Variety obit (can't find the original link):
Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins, a frequent Budd collaborator, posted on Facebook: “Shared a lot with Harold since we were young, since he was sick, shared a lot with Harold for the last 35 years, period. Feeling empty, shattered lost and unprepared for this. … Rest in peace, poet of the piano.”
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
New to me: 'Live @ Redcat', unbelievably well engineered soundboard of his career spanning 'retirement' concert. Jon Gibson flew out to play. Focuses on chamber works so heads up to 'Pavillion' fans. Kinda doubt this one will remain unofficial for long. Download came with unscanned pdf of original program notes.
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 20:20 (three years ago) link
this recording, I take it? http://sassas.org/event/harold-budd/sounds fantastic.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
Wow, had never listened to Perhaps before. It is spectacular.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
Listened all day at work:
Fenceless Night 1980-1998 (career-spanning promo pushing his music for film soundtracks)Jane 12-21The Pavilion of DreamsChildren on the Hill (Live in Chicago 1982)Ambient 2: The Plateaux of MirrorIn the MistLa Bella VistaThe PearlThe Serpent (In Quicksilver)
Tomorrow I think I'll do nothing but collaboration albums. So many to choose from: Robin Guthrie & Cocteau Twins, John Foxx, Clive Wright, Andy Partridge, Ruben Garcia/Daniel Lentz, Bill Nelson/Fila Brazillia, Zeitgeist, Hector Zazou.
Or I could just put the 3 track stretch "The Plateaux of Mirror/Above Chiangmai/An Arc of Doves" on repeat forever.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 10 December 2020 05:48 (three years ago) link