s w e e t b e a t s
april.05.2001 - #542
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artist : Harold Budd
album : The Room
year : 2000
label : Atlantic
genre : Lo-Fi
quality : CD 192k HQ True Stereo
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01.The Room of Ancillary Dreams 06:08
02.The Room of Oracles 04:46
03.The Room of Stairs 05:21
04.The Room of Corners 05:05
05.The Room Alight 04:41
06.The Candied Room 03:41
07.The Room of Mirrors 07:07
08.The Room Obscured 01:03
09.The Room of Forgotten Children 02:16
10.The Room of Accidental Geometry 03:25
11.The Room of Secondary Light 04:38
12.The Flowered Room 04:26
13.The Room 02:15
13 tracks | 54:52 mins | 75,5 MB
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With The Room, Harold Budd makes his major-label debut. Expanding
on a track from The White Arcades, he crafts 13 pieces with a
simple, childlike innocence that also contain rich textures
beneath, inducing a calm, meditative state - perfect for relaxation
therapy or cloud watching. As he has been a longtime master of
ambient atmospherics, Budd is able to create a benign, peaceful
aural gallery as each piece slowly, quietly unfolds into a
different "room," heard in the shimmering bells of "The Room
Alight," the chanted voices of "The Candied Room," and the somber
"Room of Forgotten Children" (note the wonderfully evocative
titles). Though some of the synthesizer textures verge on a little
too much new age sweetness, his piano is always a thing of tranquil
beauty, veiled in layers of eerie echo, evoking a half-remembered
dream. After many interesting collaborative records, this is an
impressive return to form to Budd's early to mid-'80s heyday --AMG
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