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harold budd
Music for 3 Pianos
Review at AllMusic:
Harold Budd has been a principal figure in the Californian avant garde since the early 1960s. His latest release, Music For 3 Pianos, is the result of a long-standing friendship with fellow Americans Daniel Lentz and Ruben Garcia. Inspired by Morton Feldman's multi-piano pieces, the trio continues to explore the space between music and silence with these six sketches for piano. Music For 3 Pianos is ambient music of the highest order, in which the echoes and silences mean as much as the notes themselves.
Notes
All compositions and performances by Budd, Garcia and Lentz
Published by Toyon Music (admin. Universal Music Publishing), Copyright Control and Metisse Music
Recorded by Michael Hoenig at Metamusic Productions in Los Angeles March 2, 1992
Pianos supplied by Brian Alexander at Key One Pianos
Edited, mixed and produced by Michael Hoenig and Harold Budd
CD mastering at LRS, Burbank
Original design done by Bruce Licher at Independent Project Press
“I hadn’t in 1910 made a language. I don’t mean a language to use. I mean a language to think in”
– Ezra Pound
Tracklist
1 Pulse Pause Repeat
Ghost chords from somewhere and going nowhere
2 La Muchacha De Los Sueños Dorados
A tango for people who dislike dancing
3 Iris
Where are you? Where have you been?
4 Somos Tres
Marooned on The Island of Just-Remembered Harmonies
5 The Messenger
The answer precedes the question
6 La Casa Bruja
The house of Golden Cards; a witches’ shrine to the 4/2 inversion
1992