Harold Budd passed away on December 7th at 84. Here are Five Essential Harold Budd albums from this avatar of ambient chamber music who defined a sound that was unrepentantly beautiful.
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5 Essential Harold Budd CDs.
Tag: Icons of Echoes
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Echoes Podcast: Brian Eno & 30 Icons of Echoes
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30 Icons for 30 Years of Echoes
Based on a recent listener poll, we’ve selected the 30 Icons of Echoes. These are the artists who have informed the show over our first 30 years. See who made the list.
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250 Albums for 25 Years of Echoes
As we celebrate 25 Years of Echoes, listeners voted for their favorite Echoes Albums. Here’s the complete list. You can hear the top 25 of them on the Wednesday, November 19 Echoes broadcast. If you’re a subscriber to Echoes Online, you can hear all 250 in a series of “Wordless Echoes” streams. Rank Artist…
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25 Icons of Echoes
Echoes Listeners Pick 25 Icons of EchoesAs we celebrate 25 Years of Echoes, listeners voted for their favorite Echoes Artists. Herewith, 25 ICONS OF ECHOES Hear them all tonight on Echoes. 1 Steve Roach 2 Brian Eno 3 Dead Can Dance/Lisa Gerrard 4 Robert Rich 5 Tangerine Dream 6 Patrick O’Hearn 7 Loreena McKennitt 8 …
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5 Essential Harold Budd CDs.
Five Essential Harold Budd CDs for Deep Listening of Pretty MusicSilence Required: The Best of Harold Budd, an Icon of Echoes. Harold Budd is a romantic with a classicist’s soul and an experimenter’s openness to chance. He’s never opted for the obvious ploys for the heartstrings. Instead, Budd explores the geometry of passion, the calculus…