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Harold Budd & Zeitgeist
She Is a Phantom

I got a couple of new Harold Budd CDs in the mail last week. Not unexpected--I ordered them, after all--but surprising to see that Budd is still active, not long after he'd announced his retirement (after the release of the 2004 double-disc set Avalon Sutra.) Then I read this bit in the Wikipedia entry on Budd: "Samadhisound released a podcast of Harold Budd in conversation with Akira Rabelais in April 2007. In this (Samadhisound Podcast #2), Harold said although he had believed at the time of recording Avalon Sutra that it would be his last album, he no longer felt that way."

Hence the CDs I got in the mail, two collaborations (Budd-y records?) with former Cocteau Twins guitarist Robin Guthrie, with whom Budd also worked on the Mysterious Skin soundtrack as well as the '80s Cocteau Twins-Harold Budd collaboration The Moon and the Melodies.

Viva Budd. Long may he pound out sustained piano chords.

Also today:

47:38 Hedningarna, Trä
47:37 SnowW.Wwhite, Wonderland
47:37 Trobar de Morte, Reverie
47:37 The Wardrobe, A Sandwich Short
47:35 Harold Budd, Lovely Thunder
47:32 Bel Canto, Birds of Passage
47:30 Iambia, Prometheus
47:29 Lunascape, Reflecting Seyelence
47:28 Calva y Nada, ¡Palpita, Corazón, Palpita!
47:27 Life Cried, Drawn & Quartered
47:27 Various artists, Scontrum, Act V