Harold Budd
Harold Budd (1936-2020) was an American composer, pianist and poet, born in Los Angeles and raised in Victorville on the edge of the Mojave Desert. He began in the 1960s with graphic scores and drone pieces in the line of John Cage and Morton Feldman. From the late 1970s he developed a slow, heavily sustained piano style he called soft pedal, and is best known for his records with Brian Eno, though he disliked being labelled ambient. Harold Budd studied at the University of Southern California under Ingolf Dahl, graduating in 1966, and later taught at CalArts.
The Little Glass
The ever-enigmatic Akira Rabelais returns! The Little Glass breaks down clearly over two discs; the first containing four plaintive solo piano parts by Harold Budd and Rabelais, followed by a 2nd disc presenting Rabelais’ hour long, inharmonic, elect…
Wind In Lonely Fences 1970 - 2011
Harold Budd's music exists in that misty place between ambient, new age, and minimalist composition, where everything is gentle and nothing lasts for long. Over the past 40-plus years, he's released about 30 albums. Some are solo, some are collaborat…
Perhaps
Recorded live on December 8, 2006 at a memorial event for James Tenney at California Institute of the Arts, Perhaps is Harold Budd sublimely distilled. Striking in its restraint and simplicity yet profoundly resonant in its depth and message, it is …
The Oak of the Golden Dreams
Important reissue of two historic minimalist albums, originally released on LP via the Advance label and out of print for decades now. Mastered from original tapes according to the composers original specifications. Packaged with informative liner no…