Ed A. Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 A major influence for me, so sad that he died. https://www.npr.org/2020/12/10/944962303/harold-budds-music-was-heaven-on-earth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxcvbnm098 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Greatest line from the NPR piece that mentions something he said... The trouble with the modern recording studio and all its hi-tech options was that "it gives you the freedom to do everything, and to me everything is a tyranny." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxcvbnm098 Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 Excellent article from the LA Times as well. He was a local here for sure, having grown up locally and taught at CalArts (where Charlie Haden also taught) https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2020-12-09/harold-budd-brian-eno-ambient-covid-dead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveCoscia Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 Didn't know much about him - he sounds fascinating. Never too late to learn. RIP. Quote Steve Coscia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allan_evett Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 I discovered Harold Budd's music by accident one morning, sometime in 1991. Went to a Chicago record that day and picked up his album, The White Arcades. Such evocative and haunting music. I've been a fan since then. RIP, Harold Budd. Quote 'Someday, we'll look back on these days and laugh; likely a maniacal laugh from our padded cells, but a laugh nonetheless' - Mr. Boffo. We need a barfing cat emoticon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Mike Metlay Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 The Plateaux Of Mirror is one of the best albums of ambient music ever made... not at all cookie-cutter, and so very lyrical. May his memory be for a blessing. Quote Dr. Mike Metlay (PhD in nuclear physics, golly gosh) Musician, Author, Editor, Educator, Impresario, Online Radio Guy, Cut-Rate Polymath, and Kindly Pedant Editor-in-Chief, Bjooks ~ Author of SYNTH GEMS 1 clicky!: more about me ~ my radio station (and my fam) ~ my local tribe ~ my day job ~ my book ~ my music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legatoboy Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 Always hard, I just lost Larry Bluth this past August to cancer who mentored me on piano and as a coach for over 30 years, a true friend and brother, I think of him every day .. be-bop, classical and general piano studies. I feel your loss Ed. . . Quote CP-50, YC 73, FP-80, PX5-S, NE-5d61, Kurzweil SP6, XK-3, CX-3, Hammond XK-3, Yamaha YUX Upright, '66 B3/Leslie 145/122 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernorSilver Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 I was fortunate to catch Harold Budd's set at Big Ears Festival a couple of years ago. I believe his harp player was Mary Lattimore. Interview with Scott Boberg of the Toledo Museum of Art, I'm listening to what was supposed to be his last studio album. Lovely piano work and compositions. https://haroldbudd.bandcamp.com/album/avalon-sutra Heard about the album here: Harold Budd's sublime music was a gateway to a brighter world (Guardian article) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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