Like his English counterpart Brian Eno, Harold Budd sometimes asserted that he was a “non-musician.” He earned his living arranging and recording minimalist ambient music, but was quick to give credit to his collaborators or whatever technology that was available. In late 2020, the music world lost this self-described “non-musician” to the COVID-19 virus. Even at the age of 84, it seemed like Budd had not run yet run out of ideas. He even changed his mind about retirement after 2005, choosing to spend the last 15 years of his life composing string quartets and bouncing ideas off of other like-minded artists such as Robin Guthrie, John Foxx, Clive Wright and Akira Rabelais. For their latest reissue, the Superior Viaduct label reaches way back in Budd’s discography to dust off and reissue his second album, The Pavilion of Dreams, a celebrated classic of the early minimalist ambient period.