{"title":"Harold Budd","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarold Budd, born in Los Angeles, California on May 24th, 1936 and passed away in Arcadia, California on December 8, 2020 due to complications from COVID-19. With over 30 solo recordings and collaborations under his belt, Harold's musical journey spanned from solo piano pieces to richly orchestrated compositions. His passion for jazz led him to pursue a degree in music composition after briefly playing drums with saxophonist Albert Ayler during his time in the Army. In 1978, he released his second record titled \"The Pavilion of Dreams,\" which was inspired by Coltrane and published on Brian Eno's Obscure label. Harold remained musically active until late in his life.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-pearl","title":"The Pearl","description":"\u003cp\u003echeaper cd reissue in a standard jewel case. this is a reissue of brian eno's wonderfully sublime collaboration album with the talented ambient classical composer harold budd. 'the pearl' is a sublime, tranquil recording that features 11 haunting ambient tone poems for treated piano. they are crafted from simple chords, arpeggios, or melodies that are frequently trailed by delicate electronic whispers to produce dreamy results. even though budd and eno chose to compose and record in a minimalist style, their gorgeous, moody music evokes so much more, for the reverberating spaces between the notes are just as important as the notes themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50384439738699,"sku":"263060","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2c92915c-be8a-4c24-b1a1-84ff6c0dbd93_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726299039"},{"product_id":"i-know-this-much-is-true-music-from-the-hbo-series","title":"I Know This Much Is True - Music From The HBO Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eSoundtrack to the Emmy award-winning HBO TV drama starring Mark Ruffalo. Comprises original score by Harold Budd alongside curated archive selections that were used in the show. As well as being the score to a critically acclaimed TV show, this is also the first new music that the legendary ambient musician has released in over 6 years. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"All Saints","offers":[{"title":"Clear | LP | x2.","offer_id":50407080100171,"sku":"1119530","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2872cced-aba7-4e2c-abfc-b421c15b07d5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726594308"},{"product_id":"the-pavilion-of-dreams","title":"The Pavilion Of Dreams","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally released in 1978 on Obscure. Produced by Brian Eno. Featuring Marion Brown, Gavin Bryars and Michael Nyman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor five decades, Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant-garde. Born in Los Angeles, he studied with Schoenberg-pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970. While searching for his own voice, he was influenced as much by abstract expressionist painters as by John Cage and Morton Feldman. In his work, Budd brought delicate, slowing-moving melodies to the foreground – creating a new musical language based on “eternally pretty music” and smooth surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the early ’70s, Budd started an extended cycle of compositions that would comprise \u003ci\u003eThe Pavilion Of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e. For Budd, the album was a signpost for a new direction in thinking about music: “The Pavilion Of Dreams erased my past. I consider that to be the birth of myself as a serious artist. It was like my Magna Carta.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProduced by Brian Eno in 1978, \u003ci\u003eThe Pavilion Of Dreams \u003c\/i\u003estands toe-to-toe with another minimalist masterpiece also released that year, Steve Reich’s Music For 18 Musicians. Budd’s gorgeous pieces reveal a lightness of touch that draws the listener in, while sublime voices float in and out as if in a recurring dream. Featuring saxophonist Marion Brown and multi-instrumentalists Gavin Bryars and Michael Nyman, \u003ci\u003eThe Pavilion Of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e remains a master class in exquisite timbre and shimmering texture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pavilion Of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e was both the final release on Eno’s Obscure imprint and a transition point towards his seminal ambient series. This first-time reissue is recommended for fans of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jon Hassell and Mark Hollis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Superior Viaduct","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":50444852724043,"sku":"1143812","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50444855116107,"sku":"1143811","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/ace66148-5755-4955-ab62-d83af8ce2f27_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727030836"},{"product_id":"the-white-arcades","title":"The White Arcades","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst time vinyl repress of a classic Harold Budd album originally released in\n1988. Partly recorded at the Cocteau Twins studio with production help from\nRobin Guthrie and Brian Eno, the album’s effortless blend of glistening synths,\nlimpid piano notes, foggy textures and space result in a beautiful contemplative\nwhole.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Although its aura is ethereal and unworldly, Budd's music is actually an\nexemplary form of humanly useful music. When the mundane urgencies of life,\nor the nonsense of our political culture, get you frazzled, which is pretty much\nevery day these days, you can put on this music and imbibe its stillness and\ngrace. His records are exactly the kind of music you'd play for calm and solace\nduring a bereavement — or at a service sending someone to their final resting\nplace. Harold Budd sounds like heaven on earth.” Simon Reynolds\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"All Saints","offers":[{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":50485851685195,"sku":"2053794","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/The_White_Arcades_9762dcee_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727603911"},{"product_id":"the-moon-and-the-melodies","title":"The Moon and the Melodies","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlmost forty years after it was initially released, \u003ci\u003eThe Moon and the Melodies\u003c\/i\u003e by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd is being reissued on vinyl for the first time – remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself.   \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Moon and the Melodies\u003c\/i\u003e is a singular record within the Cocteau Twins’ catalogue – unusually ethereal, even by their standards, and largely instrumental, guided by the free-form improvisations of Harold Budd, an ambient pioneer who had drifted into their orbit as if by divine intervention. Building on the atmospheric bliss of \u003ci\u003eVictorialand\u003c\/i\u003e, released earlier the same year, it signaled a possible future for the trio, yet it was a path they’d never take again.      \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the ensuing years, \u003ci\u003eThe Moon and the Melodies\u003c\/i\u003e has attracted a passionate fan base. Its most atmospheric tracks routinely turn up in ambient DJ sets. ‘Sea, Swallow Me’ is one of the Cocteau Twins’ most streamed songs on Spotify, having found a new life on TikTok, where it serves as the soundtrack to innumerable expressions of hard-to-express melancholy.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor such a low-key affair, the album casts a long shadow – but Raymonde believes the record’s uniqueness stems directly from its humble, unpremeditated origins. “It captured a moment in time between friends that are enjoying making music together. 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