Harold Budd discography
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![]() Harold Budd in Japan Photo: Masao Nakagami | |
Studio albums | 16 |
Live albums | 1 |
Compilation albums | 6 |
EPs | 1 |
Soundtrack albums | 3 |
Collaborative albums | 19 |
Guest appearances | 2 |
Production | 1 |
Harold Budd (born May 24, 1936) is an American ambient/avant-garde composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles, he was raised in the Mojave Desert.
His discography consists of thirteen studio albums, one EP, one live album, three soundtrack albums and several collaborations with other artists. His first recording The Oak of the Golden Dreams / Coeur D'Orr was released in 1971, but subsequently Budd didn't release anything until Brian Eno released The Pavilion of Dreams on his Obscure Records label in 1978. Since then he has been a prolific recording artist.
Eno produced his second album The Pavilion of Dreams and they worked together in collaboration on Ambient 2:The Plateaux of Mirror in 1980 and followed it in 1984 with The Pearl. In 1986 he worked with The Cocteau Twins on The Moon and the Melodies, and subsequently he has worked frequently with Robin Guthrie on several albums including soundtracks to the films Mysterious Skin and White Bird in a Blizzard. Other frequent collaborators include Hector Zazou, John Foxx and Clive Wright amongst others.
This page contains information related to his recordings.
Studio albums
Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
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1971 | The Oak of the Golden Dreams / Coeur D'Orr | Advance Recordings | FGR 16 | |
1978 | The Pavilion of Dreams | E.G. | EGS 301 | Produced by Brian Eno |
1984 | Abandoned Cities | Cantil | 384 | Reissued with The Serpent (In Quicksilver) by Opal Records (1989) |
1986 | Lovely Thunder | E.G. | EGED 46 | Produced by Michael Hoenig, released December 1, 1986 |
1988 | The White Arcades | Opal | 9 25766-2 | Produced by Brian Eno |
1991 | By the Dawn's Early Light | Opal | 9 26649-2 | With Bill Nelson
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1994 | She is a Phantom | New Albion | NA 066 CD | With Zeitgeist |
1996 | Luxa | All Saints | ASCD30 | Released September 1, 1996 |
2000 | The Room | Atlantic | 7567-83382-2 | Released: August 15, 2000 |
2003 | La Bella Vista | Shout Factory | DK 30373 | Released: October 7. 2003 |
2005 | Avalon Sutra / As Long as I Can Hold My Breath | Samadhi Sound | Sound CD SS004 | Produced by Harold Budd Released: January 18, 2005 |
2007 | Perhaps | Samadhi Sound | SOUND-DL 001 | Released: February 9, 2007 |
2011 | In The Mist | Darla | DRL248 | Released: September 27, 2011 |
2012 | Bandits of Stature | Darla | DRL262 | Released: November 27, 2012 |
2013 | Jane 1-11 | Darla | DRL281 | Released: June 4, 2013 |
2014 | Jane 12-21 | Darla | Released: September 9, 2014 |
Live albums
Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
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1995 | Agua | Sine | SIN003 | Live at the Lanzarote Music Festival, December 1989 |
Compilation albums
Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
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1987 | Myths 3: La Nouvelle Sérenité | Sub Rosa | SUB 33003-5 | With Gavin Bryars & Jon Hassell Track No. 2 "Cartago Sand Dancing" and No. 3 "Strange Thunder" |
1988 | Music for Films III | Opal | 9 25769-2 | Brian Eno's Music for Films series (Track No. 5 "Balthus Bemused by Color")
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1989 | The Serpent (In Quicksilver) / Abandoned Cities | Opal | 9 26025-2) | Released: September 19, 1989 Reissued by All Saints Records Ltd.(2005) |
1997 | Unlimited Ambient | Gruppo Futura | With Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni - track No. 5 "The Valley of Pamir"
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1998 | Fenceless Night: Selections for Cinema 1980-1998 | Polygram | PMP 018 | Promotional sampler containing a selection of Budd's work, including solo works and collaborations with Brian Eno, Hector Zazou, Cocteau Twins, Andy Partridge and Daniel Lanois |
2006 | Compounds and Elements | All Saints Records Ltd | Released: February 21, 2006 All Saints Records sampler containing several tracks by Budd | |
2013 | Budd Box Sampler | All Saints Records Ltd | Promotional sampler containing a 15 track selection of Budd's work for the 7 CD box | |
2013 | Budd Box | All Saints Records Ltd | 7-CD box set containing The Serpent (In Quicksilver), Abandoned Cities, The White Arcades, By The Dawn's Early Light, Music For 3 Pianos, Through The Hill, Luxa |
EPs
Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
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1981 | The Serpent (in Quicksilver) | Cantil | 181 | Also released in 1982 by Les Disques Du Crepuscule, Belgium Reissued with Abandoned Cities by Opal Records (1989) |
Soundtracks
Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
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2005 | Music for 'Fragments from the Inside' | Sub Rosa | SR 239 | Released: May 17, 2005 With Eraldo Bernocchi |
Mysterious Skin - Music from the Film | Commotion | CR008 | Released: May 24, 2005 With Robin Guthrie Soundtrack to the film Mysterious Skin | |
2014 | White Bird in a Blizzard | Lakeshore | LKS344142 | Released: September 23, 2014 With Robin Guthrie |
Collaborative albums
Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
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1980 | Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror | E.G. | EGAMB 002 | With Brian Eno |
1984 | The Pearl | E.G. | EGED 37 | With Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois |
1986 | The Moon and the Melodies | 4AD | CAD 611 | With Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie and Elizabeth Fraser |
1991 | Music for 3 Pianos EP | All Saints | ASCD14) | Released: January 1, 1991 With Daniel Lentz & Ruben Garcia |
1994 | Through the Hill | All Saints | ASCD21 | Released: July 8, 1994 With Andy Partridge |
1995 | Glyph | Made To Measure | MTM 37 | Released: December 12, 1995 With Hector Zazou |
1996 | Glyph Remixes EP | SSR | SSR 163 | Released: June 17, 1996 With Hector Zazou |
1998 | Walk Into My Voice: American Beat Poetry | Materiali Sonori | MASO CD 90085 | With Daniel Lentz & Jessica Karraker |
2002 | Jah Wobble's Solaris - Live In Concert | 30 Hertz Records | 30HZCD18 | Released: July 27, 2002 With Jah Wobble, Graham Haynes, Jaki Liebezeit & Bill Laswell |
Three White Roses and a Budd EP | Twentythree Records | T 016 | Released: August 27, 2002 With Fila Brazillia and Bill Nelson | |
2003 | Translucence/Drift Music | Edsel | MEDCD 727 | Released: August 26, 2003 With John Foxx |
2007 | After the Night Falls | Darla | DRL182 | Released: July 16, 2007 With Robin Guthrie |
Before the Day Breaks | Darla | DRL183 | Released: July 16, 2007 With Robin Guthrie | |
2008 | A Song for Lost Blossoms | Darla | DRL198 | Released: October 7, 2008 With Clive Wright |
2009 | Candylion | Darla | DRL221 | Released: May 26, 2009 With Clive Wright |
2010 | Little Windows | Darla | DRL 234 | With Clive Wright |
2011 | Bordeaux | Darla | DRL244 | Released: February 7, 2011 With Robin Guthrie |
Nighthawks, Translucence and Drift Music | Edsel | EDSX3011 | Released: June 27, 2011 With John Foxx and Ruben Garcia | |
Winter Garden | RareNoiseRecords | RNR021 | Released: November 29, 2011 With Eraldo Bernocchi and Robin Guthrie | |
2015 | The Little Glass | Akira Rabelais | Released December 3, 2015 With Akira Rabelais |
Guest appearances
Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
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1975 | Vista | Impulse | ASD 9304 | With Marion Brown Celeste and gong on track No. 5 |
2009 | No Line On The Horizon | Mercury | 1796037 | Released: February 27, 2009 With U2 Instrumentation on track No. 11 "Cedars of Lebanon" |
Production
Year | Artist | Album | Notes |
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1981 | Gene Bowen | Bourgeois Magnetic | Production and instrumentation |
Ephemera
- The indie rock band Rothko has a song titled "Harold Budd" on their album In the Pulse of An Artery (which uses a sample from Budd's "Boy About 10" from his album By the Dawn's Early Light.)
- Harold Budd and Eugene Bowen contributed the track "Wonder's Edge" to the Cold Blue label compilation.
- The Harold Budd track "Balthus Bemused By Colour" from his album The White Arcades is included as part of the 70 Minutes of Madness DJ mix by Coldcut.
- On saxophonist Marion Brown's 1975 album Vista, Harold Budd plays celeste and gong on the track "Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim", a shorter version of the same composition on Budd's 1978 album The Pavilion of Dreams (which also includes Marion Brown as saxophone soloist).
- In 1961, while in the military, Harold Budd briefly played drums in an Army band with legendary avant-garde saxophonist Albert Ayler.
- The track "Subtext" from Budd's album Translucence with John Foxx features in the film Inside I'm Dancing (Momentum Pictures, June 2004)
See also
References
External links
- Harold Budd > Discography at AllMusic
- Harold Budd discography at Discogs