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The Room

~ Harold Budd
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (16 Oct 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Warner
  • ASIN: B00004W5MU
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 58,173 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Room Of Ancillary Dreams
2. Room Of Oracles
3. Room Of Stairs
4. Room Of Corners
5. Room Alight
6. Candied Room
7. Room Of Mirrors
8. Room Obscured
9. Room Of Forgotten Children
10. Room Of Accidental Geometry
11. Room Of Secondary Light
12. Flowered Room
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Amazon.co.uk Review

Californian pianist/composer, Harold Budd is one of the fathers of ambient music. The Room took as its point of departure (as well as its title and texture) a piece on his 1988 album, The White Arcades. Superficially this 13-track album recalls the work of one-time collaborator, Brian Eno on The Pearl but seems less fussy and more directly rooted in the form of the compositions. However the opening minutes of "The Room of Ancillary Dreams" sound like they were recorded at Eno's around the time he created his "ambient classic", Another Green World--beatific, shimmering synths and the faintest trace of piano. But as the album progresses through the various "Rooms", Budd comes into his own to produce one of those atmospheric albums that owe as much to Erik Satie as musique concrete. On "The Room of Mirrors" deep waves of melody rise and crash as inevitable as breakers on the beach. On the creepily melancholic blues of "The Room of Secondary Light", Budd marries spidery Moonlight Sonata-stalking figures with echoes and quiet drones. The overall feel is very emotional, very strong and the variation helps to sustain interest. The intense parts aren't so hard to take and the gentle parts fade into your ambience smoothly. Indeed, The Room's lovely rate of change has been well judged to keep pace with the world outside. --Maxine Kabuubi


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When Harold Budd makes "space music", he doesn't conjure images of galaxies and planets. He is an architect of small spaces--rooms lit, or unlit, by sun, moon, or candle. THE ROOMbegan as a single piece on Budd's 1988 album THE WHITE ARCADES, and refracted into a number of other studies, 12 of which are captured here. A new recording of the original composition, "The Room", also appears at the very end.
As with all of Budd's albums, reverb and silence play a big role. These rooms echo with both emptiness and warmth. Budd uses chimes, distortion and, most effectively, the deep strains of aHammond organ to sketch the contours of each sonic chamber.The occasional guitar appears, as in the compelling conversation between acoustic piano and pedal steel guitar in "Roomof Ancillary Dreams". Budd makes startling use of feedback on "The Candied Room", transforming simple piano chords intoshimmering salvos of harp-like sound. Compositionally, the highlight of this record is "The Room of Mirrors", a quietlydramatic organ fugue. Although Budd is not a piano virtuoso, his genius is in wresting commanding and complex sounds from a limited palette and a single source of inspiration.

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars perfect music, 29 Jul 2002
By Dobester (Istanbul, Turkey) - See all my reviews
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Having heard of Harold Budd as a collaborator with Brian Eno, this was the first disc of his that I bought. It certainly is reminiscent of Eno's ambient music, calming, relaxing and lulling the listener into a peaceful reverie. However, I would go as far as to say that this is more spiritual than Eno's work, and is reminiscent of the great piano works of the Baltic mystic Arvo Pärt: there seems to be the same restrained emotional power and delicacy of Pärt's disc "Alina" on ECM Records. This is a beautiful record and should appeal to buyers of chillout and lounge music as much as fans of contemporary jazz and classical music. A masterpiece.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolute masterpiece of ambient sparseness, 13 Sep 2000
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In my opinion 'The Room' is even more brilliant than Harold Budd's earlier 'Luxa' which also scores five stars from me. In 'The Room', Budd explores many facets of sparseness and ambience, using the piano as though it was a tool of introspection. There are tracks such as 'the room of stairs', 'the room alight' and 'the room of mirrors' which ring with a kind of sonic resonance. The whole composition is very calming indeed.

Harold Budd is a perfectionist, and this CD takes us back to 'The White Arcades' and 'Beautiful Thunder'. In fact 'The Room' opened for Budd in those earlier years, and a series of events (described on the album sleeve) opened doors, and closed others. The title came from Tony Bevan's portrait of citric angst "The Room".

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A Realaxing Piece of Work, 5 Oct 2006
By Dr. Gary Callon "Gary Callon" (Arbroath, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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I own most of Harold Budd's released material and to me this is his finest piece which always seems to be the favoured one that ends up on the CD player. Predominately a piano based work, there are also lush atmospheric overtones that create a pleasing to the ear sense of relaxation as you listen. There are shades of some of Eno's late 70's recordings such as 'Music for Airports' and it is obvious to see from 'The Room' why these 2 composers produced some great work in collaboration with each other over the years. A piece of advice to any potential new listener who is interested in hearing Budd's work - this is the first recording I would go for. You won't be disappointed.
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