Name: Avalon Sutra
Brand: Harold Budd

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

DRL285

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

CDx2

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2014-02-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Darla

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

708527028520

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Total Cap

2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Harold Budd

Genre US

Modern Composition

Label US

<p>Harold Budd, born in Los Angeles, California on May 24th, 1936 and passed away in Arcadia, California on December 8, 2020 due to complications from COVID-19. With over 30 solo recordings and collaborations under his belt, Harold's musical journey spanned from solo piano pieces to richly orchestrated compositions. His passion for jazz led him to pursue a degree in music composition after briefly playing drums with saxophonist Albert Ayler during his time in the Army. In 1978, he released his second record titled "The Pavilion of Dreams," which was inspired by Coltrane and published on Brian Eno's Obscure label. Harold remained musically active until late in his life.</p>

On Avalon Sutra, Budd created brief, snapshot like compositions, made all the more fragile and impermanent by his glistening piano work, Avalon Sutra has a bittersweet, autumnal quality - the composer's trademark "loveliness" deepened and perturbed by the brevity of these pieces. If "ambient" music characteristically works to sustain a mood of intimacy, warmth, meditative ecstasy, such moods, which are certainly present in Budd's work, are never allowed to last too long on Avalon Sutra. There's a cumulative sadness and beauty to the way that these mood pieces linger briefly, stop and transform into something new. Budd's gorgeous, angular string arrangements amplify this feeling.

Avalon Sutra

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