Harold Budd's The White Arcades is another elegantly melancholic treasure of minimalist ambient music from one of Brian Eno's best collaborators and production studio mates. Their tear inducing work on The Pearl has been a fav of mine years, and led me to explore Budd's solo works. I found his The Room to be one of the best produced albums of ambient. And I fell in love with his music after that and went on to collect all of his albums. The White Arcades is just simply beautiful to listen to and is guaranteed to get you mellowed in short order. But be warned, as with all of Budd's music, there is a dark and forlorn thread within its weave of slow piano and broadly reverb-ed and sustained electronic soundscaping. It is music by which to swim slumber's blissful tides for a while.
Tracks:
1. White Arcades
2. Balthus Bemused by Color
3. Child with a Lion
4. Real Dream of Sails
5. Algebra of Darkness
6. Totems of the Red-Sleeved Warrior
7. Room
8. Coyote
9. Kiss
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--Nickolas Cook
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