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Harold Budd Format: Audio CD
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Track Listings

1 Templar
2 Tong War
3 Quandari
4 Vari
5 Nec Spero
6 Moss Landing
7 Chualar
8 Atl Atl
9 Nec Metus
10 Drita
11 Monument
12 Reini
13 Ghost Cloud

Product details

  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.92 x 5.47 x 0.39 inches; 1.98 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Root Strata
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 27605242
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2013
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ July 16, 2013
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Root Strata
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DYVUCE6
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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Customers appreciate the album's beauty, with one describing it as a great living composer. The sound quality receives positive feedback, with one customer noting its rhythmic nebulousness and another mentioning its suitability for meditation and contemplation.

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Customers appreciate the beauty of the music, with one noting it's from a great living composer.

"...for the first time I am completely immersed in the simplicity and the beauty of this man's playing of the solo piano...." Read more

"...Highly recommend it if you like any of his other work. He is a true artist and it's a shame more people don't know about Harold Budd and the..." Read more

"Great arrival time. Harold Budd is “Perhaps” one of the great living composers of the late 20th/early 21st." Read more

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Customers appreciate the sound quality of the album, with one describing it as excellent for meditation and contemplation, while another notes its rhythmic nebulousness and melancholic sound.

"...to a friend of his who passed away so it has a very somber and melancholic sound. Highly recommend it if you like any of his other work...." Read more

"One of the only albums I can fall asleep too. The musical landscape is rhythmically nebulous, harmonically modest, and emotionally introspective. &#..." Read more

"Harold Budd is a great ambient musician. You can listen to his albums for years and years and not grow tired of it...." Read more

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  • Lee Whiteside
    5.0 out of 5 stars This man is amazing
    Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2014
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    As I listen to this CD for the for the first time I am completely immersed in the simplicity and the beauty of this man's playing of the solo piano. It is wonderful, beautiful, majestic, and passionate, even sensual. This is a live recording from a 2006 concert. On the first tracks there are some audience noises in the background, such as people shuffling finding their seats and papers rustling, maybe people folding their programs. It had me looking around to see what was going on. But that is momentary and such a minor fault as compared to the beauty of the performance. Maybe that is why he waited so long to release this recording. I don't know. But I do know that this is classic Harold Budd on solo piano and it is well worth every penny. A great performance by an ambient master.
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  • W2TMachine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another beautiful album from Mr. Budd
    Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2015
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    Another beautiful album from Mr. Budd. It is very minimal just like the rest of his catalogue but is even more bare bones. It's a live performance of him on the Piano. And it is a tribute to a friend of his who passed away so it has a very somber and melancholic sound. Highly recommend it if you like any of his other work. He is a true artist and it's a shame more people don't know about Harold Budd and the beautiful music he's made over the years.
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  • Joseph Finkel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
    Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2019
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    Great arrival time. Harold Budd is “Perhaps” one of the great living composers of the late 20th/early 21st.
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  • mmm
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good napping music
    Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2014
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    One of the only albums I can fall asleep too. The musical landscape is rhythmically nebulous, harmonically modest, and emotionally introspective. "Atl Atl" might be the mostly rhythmically insistent track on the album. I am quite happy to own this album!
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  • Todd Zen
    5.0 out of 5 stars Harold Budd Fan for Life
    Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2017
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    Harold Budd is a great ambient musician. You can listen to his albums for years and years and not grow tired of it. Excellent music for Meditation or Contemplation.
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  • Slippery Sam
    5.0 out of 5 stars Gorgeous and essential, but audience noise can be disconcerting with headphones
    Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2013
    Per Wikipedia, "David Sylvian's independent record label Samadhisound released Perhaps in February 2007, a live recording of Budd's improvised performance in tribute to his late friend (and associate teacher at the then newly formed California Institute of Arts) James Tenney. Recorded at CalArts on December 6, the album is only available as a digital download." It's similar to La Bella Vista, improvised on a real piano (with a dark, Steinway-like tone), inducing moods of calm, tranquility, concentration, meditation, etc. My one caveat, and it can be either cool or disturbing depending, is that the audience must have been close to the microphones, as there is from time to time paper rustling, sneazing, clinking of metal on metal and so forth that is very vividly recorded and placed in the soundscape so that if you are alone in a cubicle farm working, you will keep thinking, "I though I was the only person here! Who's that in the cube 2 down." OK, so if you don't know Harold Budd at all or have only heard the electronic collaborations with Cocteau Twins, Eno and the like, then you really have to listen to this-- it's got the dark ambient vibe, but because it's on a real piano, it wears better for repeated/extended listening.
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  • P. Rantzau
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime, restrained, brilliantly recorded
    Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2014
    If you are undecided on this one, thinking maybe you don't need it, the first few minutes of "Templar" will have you clicking the "add to basket" button. I'm fussy about my Harold Budd purchases (he can be a little "soft" sometimes) but this is simply a wonderful release. Its beautifully recorded & a decent stereo system will reward those with fussy ears - this cd is beautifully mastered.
    Sublime, restrained piano playing, no other adornments or treatments; & as far as I can tell, minimal production. Its as if you are in the room as he played. One of his best. Enjoy.
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  • Ian Terry
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Harold Budd Masterpiece
    Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2015
    This album truly gets better with each listen. I find myself coming back to it time and time again. I'm always intrigued because I can never quite pinpoint the emotions it carries- somber yet hopeful, melancholic yet playful, pretty yet unpredictable, sad yet whimsical, meandering yet purposeful, simple yet elegant...

    Some other reviewers have commented on the occasional ambient shuffles from the audience but I've actually come to enjoy that aspect. It sort of brings you back down to earth while listening- like a pinch to momentarily bring you out of a dream that was too good to be true.
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  • joao m.
    1.0 out of 5 stars Mala suerte...
    Reviewed in Spain on November 5, 2017
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    .Pedí este disco que me gusta, ya que la querían en vinilo. Ordenada, esperé más de lo habitual, se enojó conmigo con el portador y, por si fuera poco, tengo el disco errado., Ya sera devuelto 10 días y continuo esperando para el reembolso. Mal servicio. Amazon.es á perdido un cliente.
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  • Rappap
    5.0 out of 5 stars Schöne Kooperation
    Reviewed in Germany on January 30, 2017
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    Als Team doppelt so gut, wie so oft bei Harold Budd des Fan ich bin. Diese Koorporation ist auf jeden Fall sehr gelungen.
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  • JD
    5.0 out of 5 stars バッドの「ホワイトアルバム」は美しい即興演奏だった。
    Reviewed in Japan on May 13, 2014
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    このアルバムは「ライブアルバム」である。

    ジャケットの内側の文章を読んでみると、「James Tenney（ジェームズ・テニー）」というアメリカの作曲家が2006年に亡くなり、テニーと友人関係であったハロルド・バッドはカリフォルニア芸術大学の追悼イベントで演奏をおこなったものだ。
    バッドによる文章では「ジムの思い出による私の演奏（75分間ノンストップの即興演奏）」と記載があるので、全曲の全演奏はピアノのみの即興演奏でなされている。

    そうしたことからも、「Perhaps（偶然）」なのかもしれないし、ジムが亡くなったことも彼にとっては「Perhaps（不確実）」なこととしてまだ受け止められていないという意味もあるのかもしれない。

    演奏は円熟した現代音楽家であるハロルド・バッドに相応しい、じつに美しくゆったりと、そして間を長く取って一音一音をしっかりと演奏していて、完成度も非常に高い。
    バッドの音楽が好きなファンであれば、本作は文句なく傑作であると感じることだろう。

    他にバッドのライブアルバムといえば、「agua」というアルバム（これも名盤だ）が思い出されるが、間違いな無く本作の方が素晴らしい。
    真っ白なだけのジャケットに、小さく名前とタイトルをクレジットしているという極めてシンプルなジャケットデザインだが、バッドの心境と演奏内容を表すかのように自然で作為の感じられない名盤だと思う。
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  • Dodoart
    4.0 out of 5 stars Provocatively charged musical moods from Harold Budd
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 22, 2015
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    It's taken me a bit of time to get a true feel of this recording. It's a case of sitting down, relaxing, and getting in the right frame of mind, so I can connect with the inner beauty of the music.
    On the outside, there's a sombre feel to the performance...maybe sombre's not the right word? but delve in a bit deeper and you'll find warmth and solace.

    The music is immensely personal to Harold Budd, composed in memory of fellow composer and close friend Jim Tenney - and irrespective that Harold states to have loved every moment of it's conception, I can't imagine it was a walk in the park, creating 75 minutes of musical improvisation, when it's just the artist, his piano and many deep thoughts.

    Like me, if you're looking for that pure Budd/piano sound, then that's what you get here. It's emotional and straight from the heart - and if anything, it's music that will evoke memories, close to your own heart - and why not. Isn't that what music's all about?
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