HAROLD BUDD – The Pavilion Of Dreams LP Dub I realised I was waiting

I realised I was waiting for someone to give me permission to do my own thing

and sweet jangly bliss

but it remains an absolute classic of improvised music

both written and recorded in April after Big Thief’s March tour was abruptly cut short due to coronavirus

HAROLD BUDD – The Pavilion Of Dreams LP Dub I realised I was waitingFor five decades, Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant garde. Born in Los Angeles, he studied with Schoenberg pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970. While searching for his own voice, he was influenced as much by abstract expressionist painters as by John Cage and Morton Feldman. In his work, Budd brought delicate, slowing moving melodies to the foreground creating a new musical language based on eternally