Harold Budd - The Room
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Artist: Harold BuddEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2011-10-17
Music Label: Atlantic Jazz
Soundtracks:
- The Room Of Ancillary Dreams
- The Room Of Oracles
- The Room Of Stairs
- The Room Of Corners
- The Room Alight
- The Candied Room
- The Room Of Mirrors
- The Room Obscured
- The Room Of Forgotten Children
- The Room Of Accidental Geometry
- The Room Of Secondary Light
- The Flowered Room
- The Room
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Free Music Review: Not bad for a guy who reckons he can't play the piano
Hit: 5 Stars
There is some sort of irony at work when I think that Harold Budd does not particularly want to be considered an artist in the ambient genre, nor does he feel he plays piano particularly well. I guess time will judge him for being some sort of neo classical composer with leanings towards minimalism. Neither is it a bad thing that Harold Budd doesn't bring out a new record on a more than regular basis; I guess if he did a lot of us wouldn't appreciate him for what magic he does bring to the piano when he does. The Room, his first release in about four years, is strangely beautiful, almost like waking up from an afternoon's nap, that time when your mind is filled with distant memories and half forgotten dreams. Listening to these pieces I keep thinking that I have heard them before, in one form or another, though I'm not really able to pin them down. HB says that he is was taking up with these pieces where he left off in 1988 with The White Arcades. Simple repetitious piano / organ / synthesizer lines where the emphasis is on silence, maybe a state of meditative stillness are better word to utilize. My initial reactions were that Harold Budd was possibly revisiting the period which brought forth the release She Is A Phantom, but in retrospect I think this is not true. What can be said about this album is that it's not only one of the most memorable Harold Budd albums you may ever hear, but it retains the ghosts of many of its predecessors. There are fragments of The Pearl, Plateaux Of Mirror, Abandoned Cities, Lovely Thunder and much more. It's gorgeous when it's just electric piano. I'm especially fond of this aspect of his work; for here he manages to convey innocence and beauty at its best. He manages to bring out so may emotions in his phrasings, and all the time that soft pedal approach subdues all around. There is a lot of respect here for silence. I'm drawn to sounds and musics which contain memories and feelings of times past and present. People have commented that this is a sad album, but I beg to differ. Introspective is maybe a better word to utilize. Some people have also commented that HB hasn't exactly moved on, that he's still covering old ground with this release, which in all fairness is correct. But some of us like it that way. It's a good thing when people who hear his work for the first time are dumbfounded as I was upon first encountering the Harold Budd experience. For me, Harold Budd is an important living trasure in American contemporary music. His albums are timeless. And for a man who claims can't play well, does a damn fine job. Thank you Harold Budd for a beautiful album.
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Harold Budd returns with his first solo album in four years and it's a timely reminder of how potent this pianist's ambient orchestrations remain. Although Budd himself would never use the term "ambient," he'll be forever tarred with that brush, having released The Plateaux of Mirror, one of Brian Eno's Ambient Music series in the 1970s. Budd's brand of ambience is full of ambiguity, hidden shadows, and dark corners. Based on themes from his last great album, 1988's The White Arcades, each piece on The Room is a miniature in mood. Dark organ drones underscore the time-stepping piano theme of "The Room of Ancillary Dreams." Another organ drone, along with cascading synthesizer bell swirls and the plucked, vibelike tones of a Fender Rhodes, establish an eerie desolation on "The Room of Stairs." Budd doesn't make happy music, but it has the poignant beauty of the last leaves of autumn. --John Diliberto
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