The Room

by Harold Budd

Overview

With The Room, Harold Budd makes his major-label debut. Expanding on a track from The White Arcades, he crafts 13 pieces with a simple, childlike innocence that also contain rich textures beneath, inducing a calm, meditative state -- perfect for relaxation therapy or cloud watching. As he has been a longtime master of ambient atmospherics, Budd is able to create a benign, peaceful aural gallery as each piece slowly, quietly unfolds into a different "room," heard in the shimmering bells of "The Room Alight," the chanted voices of "The Candied Room," and the somber "Room of Forgotten Children" (note the wonderfully evocative titles). Though some of the synthesizer textures verge on a little too much new age sweetness, his piano is always a thing of tranquil beauty, veiled in layers of eerie echo, evoking a half-remembered dream. After many interesting collaborative records, this is an impressive return to form to Budd's early to mid-'80s heyday. ~ Jason Gross

Product Details

Release Date:	08/15/2000
Label:	Atlantic
UPC:	0075678338229
Rank:	49398

Tracks

1. The Room of Ancillary Dreams
2. The Room of Oracles
3. The Room of Stairs
4. The Room of Corners
5. The Room Alight
6. The Candied Room
7. The Room of Mirrors
8. The Room Obscured
9. The Room of Forgotten Children
10. The Room of Accidental Gometry
11. The Room of Secondary Light
12. The Flowered Room
13. The Room

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Harold Budd   Primary Artist,Synthesizer,Piano

Technical Credits

Harold Budd   Producer,Composer
Michael Coleman   Engineer