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Harold Budd: American Vision Despite having waited eight years to create the follow‑up to his 1988 solo album, experimental composer Harold Budd composed and recorded the new album, Luxa, in just 11 days. Since the late 70s, it has become a habit for recording artists to take longer and longer to write and record their music. Peter Gabriel, most famously, may take several years to record an album. At the other end of the spectrum, there are still a few bands and artists who will write and record an album in a matter of weeks. And then there s Harold Budd. The American ex‑minimalist, ex‑college lecturer, experimental ambient composer, solo artist and ....
Steve Thorne / Redferns Originally published on December 10, 2020 9:44 am Some artists veer wildly between styles from record to record. And then there are those who discover their sonic identity and stick with it, hardly straying from their one true path. Their life s work is the patient art of inflecting and perfecting. Harold Budd belongs in this second category of artists, those for whom musical style isn t something you can put on and take off like a costume, but a truth that comes from deep within the self that you discover and distill. Over the course of his four-decade discography, Budd s music floated between ambient, minimalist composition, and dream-pop, but ultimately evaded those categories to gently assert itself as a wholly individual voice. Cherished by a devoted group of fans and admired by musical collaborators like Brian Eno, Cocteau Twins and XTC s Andy Partridge, Budd s slow, tranquil compositions centered around his own piano playing. Th ....