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Died, December 8, 2020. HAROLD Budd, who has died aged 84 from complications caused by Covid-19, was an influential composer and pianist whose work left its mark with a slow-burning intensity. This was as evident on Brian Eno-produced albums such as The Plateaux of Mirror (1980) as it was on later records with Robin Guthrie, co-founder of the highly acclaimed Scottish band, Cocteau Twins. These included the soundtrack to Gregg Araki’s film, White Bird in a Blizzard (2014), and Another Flower, which was released the week of Budd’s passing. Inbetween came a substantial body of work ...

Harold Budd's Music Was Heaven On Earth By Simon Reynolds | NPR Steve Thorne / Redferns Some artists veer wildly between styles from record to record. And then there are those who discover their sonic identity and stick with it, hardly straying from their one true path. Their life's work is the patient art of inflecting and perfecting. Harold Budd belongs in this second category of artists, those for whom musical style isn't something you can put on and take off like a costume, but a truth that comes from deep within the self that you discover and distill. Over the cou...

Harold Budd: American Vision Despite having waited eight years to create the follow‑up to his 1988 solo album, experimental composer Harold Budd composed and recorded the new album, Luxa, in just 11 days. Since the late '70s, it has become a habit for recording artists to take longer and longer to write and record their music. Peter Gabriel, most famously, may take several years to record an album. At the other end of the spectrum, there are still a few bands and artists who will write and record an album in a matter of weeks. And then there's Harold Budd. The American ex‑minimalist, exâ€...