Harold Budd discography

Harold Budd discography

Harold Budd in Japan Photo: Masao Nakagami
Studio albums 13
Live albums 1
Compilation albums 6
EPs 1
Soundtrack albums 2
Collaborative albums 19
Guest appearances 2
Production 1

Harold Budd (born May 24, 1936) is an American ambient/avant-garde composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles, he was raised in the Mojave Desert. This page contains information related to his recordings.

Studio albums

Year Title Notes
1971 The Oak of the Golden Dreams / Coeur D'Orr
  • Released: 1971
  • Label: Advance Recordings (FGR 16)
1978 The Pavilion of Dreams
  • Released: 1978
  • Label: E.G. (EGS 301)
1984 Abandoned Cities
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: Cantil (384)
  • Reissued with The Serpent (In Quicksilver) by Opal Records (1989)
1986 Lovely Thunder
  • Released: December 1, 1986
  • Label: E.G. (EGED 46)
1988 The White Arcades
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Opal (9 25766-2)
  • Produced by Brian Eno
1991 By the Dawn's Early Light
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Opal (9 26649-2)
  • With Bill Nelson
  • Reissued in 1996 by All Saints Records
1994 She is a Phantom
  • Released: 1994
  • Label: New Albion (NA 066 CD)
1996 Luxa
  • Released: September 24, 1996
  • Label: All Saints (ASCD30)
2000 The Room
  • Released: August 15, 2000
  • Label: Atlantic (7567-83382-2)
2003 La Bella Vista
2005 Avalon Sutra / As Long as I Can Hold My Breath
  • Produced by Harold Budd
2007 Perhaps
  • Released: February 9, 2007
  • Label: Samadhi Sound (SOUND-DL 001)
2011 In The Mist
  • Released: September 27, 2011
  • Label: Darla (DRL248)
2012 Bandits of Stature
  • Released: November 27, 2012
  • Label: Darla (DRL262)
2013 Jane 1-11
  • Released: June 4, 2013
  • Label: Darla (DRL281)
2014 Jane 12-21
  • Released: September 9, 2014
  • Label: Darla

Live albums

Year Title Notes
1995 Agua
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Sine (SIN003)
  • Live at the Lanzarote Music Festival, December 1989

Compilation albums

Year Title Notes
1987 Myths 3: La Nouvelle Sérenité
  • Released: 1987
  • Label: Sub Rosa (SUB 33003-5)
1988 Music for Films III
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Opal (9 25769-2)
  • Brian Eno's Music for Films series
  • Track No. 5 "Balthus Bemused by Color"
  • Reissued in 1992 by All Saints Records Ltd.
1989 The Serpent (In Quicksilver) / Abandoned Cities
  • Released: September 19, 1989
  • Label: Opal (9 26025-2)
  • Reissued by All Saints Records Ltd.(2005)
1997 Unlimited Ambient
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Gruppo Futura
  • With Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni - track No. 5 "The Valley of Pamir"
  • With Daniel Lentz and Jessica Karraker - track No. 8 "Beyond This Veil", No. 10 "Interlude 6" and No. 15 "Begin Then Not Know (Reprise)"
1998 Fenceless Night: Selections for Cinema 1980-1998
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Polygram (PMP 018)
  • Promotional sampler containing a selection of Budd's work, including solo works and collaborations with Brian Eno, Hector Zazou, Cocteau Twins, Andy Partridge and Daniel Lanois
2006 Compounds and Elements
  • Released: February 21, 2006
  • Label: All Saints Records Ltd
  • All Saints Records sampler containing several tracks by Budd
2013 Budd Box Sampler
  • Released: 2013
  • Label: All Saints Records Ltd
  • Promotional sampler containing a 15 track selection of Budd's work for the 7 CD box
2013 Budd Box
  • Released: 2013
  • Label: All Saints Records Ltd
  • 7 CD box set containing The Serpent (In Quicksilver), Abandoned Cities, The White Arcades, By The Dawn's Early Light, Music For 3 Pianos, Through The Hill, Luxa

EPs

Year Title Notes
1981 The Serpent (in Quicksilver)
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Cantil (181)
  • Also released in 1982 by Les Disques Du Crepuscule, Belgium
  • Reissued with Abandoned Cities by Opal Records (1989)

EPs

Year Title Notes
1981 The Serpent (in Quicksilver)
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Cantil (181)
  • Also released in 1982 by Les Disques Du Crepuscule, Belgium
  • Reissued with Abandoned Cities by Opal Records (1989)

Soundtracks

Year Title Notes
2005 Music for 'Fragments from the Inside'
  • Released: May 17, 2005
  • Label: Sub Rosa (SR 239)
Mysterious Skin - Music from the Film
  • Released: May 24, 2005
  • Label: Commotion (CR008)
2014 White Bird in a Blizzard
  • Released: September 23, 2014
  • Label: Lakeshore (LKS344142)

Collaborative albums

Year Title Notes
1980 Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
  • Released: April, 1980
  • Label: E.G. (EGAMB 002)
  • With Brian Eno
1984 The Pearl
  • Released: 1984
  • Label: E.G. (EGED 37)
1986 The Moon and the Melodies
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: 4AD (CAD 611)
1991 Music for 3 Pianos EP
  • Released: January 1, 1991
  • Label: All Saints (ASCD14)
1994 Through the Hill
  • Released: July 8, 1994
  • Label: All Saints (ASCD21)
1995 Glyph
  • Released: December 12, 1995
  • Label: Made To Measure (MTM 37)
1996 Glyph Remixes EP
  • Released: June 17, 1996
  • Label: SSR (SSR 163)
  • With Hector Zazou
1998 Walk Into My Voice: American Beat Poetry
  • Released: 1998
  • Label: Materiali Sonori (MASO CD 90085)
  • With Daniel Lentz & Jessica Karraker
2002 Jah Wobble's Solaris - Live In Concert
  • Released: July 27, 2002
  • Label: 30 Hertz Records (30HZCD18)
Three White Roses and a Budd EP
  • Released: August 27, 2002
  • Label: Twentythree Records (T 016)
2003 Translucence/Drift Music
  • Released: August 26, 2003
  • Label: Edsel (MEDCD 727)
2007 After the Night Falls
  • Released: July 16, 2007
  • Label: Darla (DRL182)
  • With Robin Guthrie
Before the Day Breaks
  • Released: July 16, 2007
  • Label: Darla (DRL183)
  • With Robin Guthrie
2008 A Song for Lost Blossoms
  • Released: October 7, 2008
  • Label: Darla (DRL198)
  • With Clive Wright
2009 Candylion
  • Released: May 26, 2009
  • Label: Darla (DRL221)
  • With Clive Wright
2010 Little Windows
  • Released: 2010
  • Label: Darla (DRL 234)
  • With Clive Wright
2011 Bordeaux
  • Released: February 7, 2011
  • Label: Darla (DRL244)
  • With Robin Guthrie
Nighthawks, Translucence and Drift Music
  • Released: June 27, 2011
  • Label: Edsel (EDSX3011)
  • With John Foxx and Ruben Garcia
Winter Garden
  • With Eraldo Bernocchi and Robin Guthrie
2015 The Little Glass
  • Released December 3, 2015
  • Label: Akira Rabelais
  • With Akira Rabelais

Guest appearances

Year Title Notes
1975 Vista
  • Released: 1975
  • Label: Impulse (ASD 9304)
2009 No Line On The Horizon
  • Released: February 27, 2009
  • Label: Mercury (1796037)
  • With U2
  • Instrumentation on track No. 11 "Cedars of Lebanon"

Production

Year Artist Album Notes
1981 Gene Bowen Bourgeois Magnetic Production and instrumentation

Ephemera

  • The indie rock band Rothko has a song titled "Harold Budd" on their album In the Pulse of An Artery (which uses a sample from Budd's "Boy About 10" from his album By the Dawn's Early Light.)
  • Harold Budd and Eugene Bowen contributed the track "Wonder's Edge" to the Cold Blue label compilation.
  • The Harold Budd track "Balthus Bemused By Colour" from his album The White Arcades is included as part of the 70 Minutes of Madness DJ mix by Coldcut.
  • On saxophonist Marion Brown's 1975 album Vista, Harold Budd plays celeste and gong on the track Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim, a shorter version of the same composition on Budd's 1978 album The Pavilion of Dreams (which also includes Marion Brown as saxophone soloist).
  • In 1961, while in the military, Harold Budd briefly played drums in an Army band with legendary avant-garde saxophonist Albert Ayler.
  • The track "Subtext" from Budd's album 'Translucence' with John Foxx features in the film 'Inside I'm Dancing' (Momentum Pictures, June 2004)

References

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