52 minutes, 31 seconds

John Foxx & Harold Budd
Drift Music

Harold Budd has probably made more albums in collaboration with other artists than he has on his own. Yet whether he's recording with Brian Eno, Robin Guthrie, Hector Zazou, or here with John Foxx, you can always identify his unmistakable piano sound. Which makes me wonder about the creative process when two artists with well-defined careers work together on a given piece of music. Do they compose together, blending (and perhaps bending) their sound to match the other's? Or do they work independently, then try to patch together their ideas in the studio?

I remember reading somewhere about two ambient artists who'd collaborated by mail. I guess one would send the other his recordings, and that artist would in turn "manipulate" them and, I assume, augment them with his own music. It's an interesting way to create music, and perhaps it's a good deal more common than I think. And I'd imagine it depends on both artists not being too possessive of their music. In other words, being OK with someone taking what you've created and then turning it into quite possibly something else entirely.

Also today:

52:30 Ab Ovo, Triode
52:30 Azam Ali, Elysium for the Brave
52:30 Caustic, Booze Up and Riot (CD 1 of 2)
52:30 Tribe of Circle, The Advent of Redemption
52:28 Morthound, Spindrift
52:28 Ulf Söderberg, Vindarnas Hus
52:25 Corvus Corax, Tritonus