A Song for Lost Blossoms
One of ambient music's true legends Harold Budd teams up with fellow composer Clive Wright for this new collaborative outing, boasting tracks recorded live at both composer's homes plus one or two slightly less obvious locations like the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The opening piece poses quite a challenge, exceeding a half hour in length it's a composition for synthesizers and electric guitars that runs at a stately pace, with Wright's delay-heavy guitar lines bringing sheen and sparkle to Budd's drifting chords. From there on the album condenses itself into smaller pockets of sound, but maintains a certain ethereal quality, highlighting Budd's meandering keystrokes with some clever, resonant filtering. Elsewhere Wright's guitar takes a more central role, ebowing its way through 'Forever Hold My Breath', which is based on a theme first heard on Budd's superb Samadhi Sound double album a couple of years back. The two musicians gel together extremely well, although Budd's shimmering, reverberant piano style is always the first thing your ear seeks out. Gorgeous.
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One of ambient music's true legends Harold Budd teams up with fellow composer Clive Wright for this new collaborative outing, boasting tracks recorded live at both composer's homes plus one or two slightly less obvious locations like the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The opening piece poses quite a challenge, exceeding a half hour in length it's a composition for synthesizers and electric guitars that runs at a stately pace, with Wright's delay-heavy guitar lines bringing sheen and sparkle to Budd's drifting chords. From there on the album condenses itself into smaller pockets of sound, but maintains a certain ethereal quality, highlighting Budd's meandering keystrokes with some clever, resonant filtering. Elsewhere Wright's guitar takes a more central role, ebowing its way through 'Forever Hold My Breath', which is based on a theme first heard on Budd's superb Samadhi Sound double album a couple of years back. The two musicians gel together extremely well, although Budd's shimmering, reverberant piano style is always the first thing your ear seeks out. Gorgeous.
One of ambient music's true legends Harold Budd teams up with fellow composer Clive Wright for this new collaborative outing, boasting tracks recorded live at both composer's homes plus one or two slightly less obvious locations like the Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. The opening piece poses quite a challenge, exceeding a half hour in length it's a composition for synthesizers and electric guitars that runs at a stately pace, with Wright's delay-heavy guitar lines bringing sheen and sparkle to Budd's drifting chords. From there on the album condenses itself into smaller pockets of sound, but maintains a certain ethereal quality, highlighting Budd's meandering keystrokes with some clever, resonant filtering. Elsewhere Wright's guitar takes a more central role, ebowing its way through 'Forever Hold My Breath', which is based on a theme first heard on Budd's superb Samadhi Sound double album a couple of years back. The two musicians gel together extremely well, although Budd's shimmering, reverberant piano style is always the first thing your ear seeks out. Gorgeous.