This is a little article in the Gaurdian about my favourite contemporary composer, Harold Budd, whose recent album Perhaps I posted below. From 1979 to 1981, when I was a school kid in Yrs 10,11,12, Brian Eno produced a series of ambient albums, that have since become classics. Eno's Music for Airports kicked off the series. At the time I obsessed over these albums, with their minimalist design covers of details of topographic maps, and unusual sounds within. The term ambient was barely in use, and these albums were somewhat mysterious and indescribable in the context of the late 70s/early 80s. On Friday afternoons I'd catch the train into town, in my school uniform but with my tie undone, and check out the 2 or 3 import record stores for new Eno ambient albums. These albums made music an adventure, helped keep me sane through my final school years, and have shaped my listening taste ever since. I first encountered Harold Budd on the album Plateaux of Mirror, a collaboration with Eno and No. 2 in the ambient series. Anyhow, that's enough music geek talk! Not a particularly profound article, just a bit of background on this intriguing composer.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/25/harold-budd-ambient-composer-interview
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