Artist : Harold Budd
Title : In The Mist
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2011
Date : 11/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 13
Label : Darla Records
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.98.4
Length : 45:04 min
Size : 67,10 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Haru Spring 04:42
02.The Whispers 02:43
03.The Startled 02:18
04.The Foundry (For Mika Vainio) 04:45
05.The Art Of Mirrors 05:58
(After Derek Jarman)
06.Three-Fingered Jack 02:47
07.Greek George 05:50
08.Black Bart 03:11
09.Come Back To Me In Dreams 02:03
10.Parallel Night 03:34
11.Sun At 6 Windows 03:09
12.The Panther Of Small Favors 02:17
13.Mars And The Artist (After Cy Twombly) 01:47
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45:04 min
Harold Budd is a one of a kind modern
neo-classical artist creating high-
callibre and complex music with unique
and subtle tension and abstraction, and
simultaneous almost-pastoral but as-
often otherworldly mood. Within the
first three notes of a Budd composition,
with trademark fresh-as-improvisation
sound, whether deep dark or bright
light, the listener is transcended to an
enlightened state within the balance of
empty space, sometimes wistful
nostalgia, frequent idealism and always
persistent love and beauty.
In The Mist is the artist purely
distilled. It is the music of Harold
Budd at its most raw, emotive and
minimalist. In addition, Harold is
writing for string quartet. In The Mist
is comprised of three distinct
movements. Tracks 1-5, The Whispers, are
minimalist, tonal, sometimes tone-
bending piano compositions. Tracks 6-8,
The Gun Fighters, are more dramatic
piano compositions with sparse
electronic effects and percussive
elements. Tracks 9-13, Shadows, are new
Harold Budd string quartets, which add
an additional component of interest -
minimal, abstract, moody compositions.
All Music Guide calls Harold "an
American ambient/neo-classical
composer". He is absolutely the World's
number one minimalist, ambient, modern
classical composer. That said, he abhors
the word ambient. "Ambient: Everytime I
read this word I cringe: I've been
kidnapped by something I neither know of
nor care about; it's better by 1000
times than "New Age" from 2 decades ago,
but still..." Although his work is often
called ambient, minimal and classical,
these labels do no justice to the quiet
beauty and uniqueness of the work.
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