The Room (Atlantic, 2000)
“The Room” is an Ambient album which features piano and sythesizer pads, describes various rooms.
“The Room of Ancillary Dreams” is based on long tone pad chords, and fragmental piano and pad solos ride on.
“The Room of Oracles” is begins with sacred and mystic pad, fragmental fine wonderful and odd piano improvisation follow.
“The Room of Stairs” is a mystic song begins with glockenspiel passages, atmospheric deep pad chord layers follow.
“The Room of Corners” begins with electric piano or muted piano, then Budd’s iconic piano with no effects improvisation follow.
“The Room Alight” is consist of reverb and chorus modulated piano and sythesizer, and mystic also bright composition like Ambient works with Brian Eno.
“The Room of Mirrors” is a very melancholic and sorrowful composition. It based on low tone electric piano backing, fragmental improvisational glockenspiel, piano and synthesizer solos ride on it.
“The Room of Forgotten Children” is a piano solo piece of Budd’s iconic floating and mystic improvisation.
“The Room of Accidental Geometry” is an apathetic few tones piano and synthesizer lead improvisational touches.
“The Room of Secondary Light” is a sorrowful song with twinkle modulated electric piano and beautiful pad like a mist.
“The Flowered Room” begins with EP 4-beat walking base and synthesizer backings, then fragmental electric piano solos follow.
“The Room” is melancholic minimal piano solo piece like Philip Glass and Micheal Nyman.
A very good Ambient and New Age album. There are full of Budd’s unique style and plays.
La Bella Vista (Shout! Factory, 2003)
“La Bella Vista” is a rare piano solo album by Harold Budd. All tracks is the recordings of his iconic floating and mystic piano improvisations.
“Campanile” is an arpeggio based neutral and apathetic piano piece.
“The Rose” is a more dynamic and fragmental and sorrowful piano improvisation.
“Stones” is a mystic and abstract piano improvisation.
“Her Face” is a low tone accompaniment based mystic and melancholic piano piece.
“Children’s Games Beyond Our Reach” is a more fragmental and abstract piano improvisation.
“The Avenue” is a swinging chord backing based neutral and tasteless abstract piano improvisation.
“Bird Charmer” is a mystic and oriental mood ambiguous improvisation of harder piano touches.
“Other Flowers” is an abstract and free but dynamic piano improvisation.
“Il Leopardo Delle Nevi” is an over 10 minutes grand work in this album, this song is an abstract and ambiguous improvisation, also is constructed by flexible repetitions of phrases and passages.
Very unique style and taste piano solo album. His mystic, apathetic, wonderful, floating and flowing piano play style has elements of Contemporary Classic and Jazz, is one and only.
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