The remainder of "The Serpent (In Quicksilver)" finds Budd playing songs on combinations of overdubbed piano and Fender Rhodes, and solo piano and solo Fender Rhodes, and the title track where he plays a Bosendorfer and Hammond organ duet with a bassist. Of these Afar is perhaps my favorite with the pedal steel. Harold Budd ‎– The Serpent (In Quicksilver) Genre: Electronic. I am an avid listener of the genre known as Ambient Space, and therefore have only stumbled around the edges of Budd's work. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. Budd Box (Limited 6 Cd Black Edition) Style: Ambient. Please try again Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. Select your address But the two pieces from "Abandoned Cities" are like a journey into some other dimension, perhaps the depths of the Psyche, perhaps the Underworld -- yet they're not so much ominous as simply Other, something deeply impersonal & Outside, as thunder rumbling too closely or the ocean waves at night are Other & Outside. This stands out as particularly memorable to me in Budd's body of work because I hadn't heard this combination of instruments on one of his albums before, and it really worked well. Rub With Ashes 4. Not so much because of "The Serpent (In Quicksilver), but because of the "Abandoned Cities" section of the disc. Both "Dark Star" and the title track bored me, they didn't really work as ambient music for me in any sense, because I found both tracks annoying as background music and uninteresting as pieces to actively listen to. Most highly recommended! The songs from "The Serpent (in Quicksilver)" are more typical of many of his other albums in that they're short, sketchy things. The Serpent (In Quicksilver) To put it simply, I was surprised that pieces of this length had so little going on to keep a listener engaged. Afar 2. The Serpent (In Quicksilver) by Harold Budd, released 01 January 1981 1. Data Correct Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations Wanderer 3. You might not play the "Abandoned Cities" pieces as often as other work by Budd, but whenever you do, you'll certainly be unsettled & moved by them. The Serpent (In Quicksilver) was originally issued in 1981 on Cantil. Abandoned Cities was originally released in 1984 on Cantil. The songs from "The Serpent (in Quicksilver)" are more typical of many of his other albums in that they're short, sketchy things.
The bad to me were the two tracks that comprise the album "Abandoned Cities". The shorter pieces are typical of Budd -- delicate, scintillating, yet precise as cut diamonds -- ambient to be sure, but with real substance to them, making them far more than vaguely "nice" New Age elevator music. This release gathers two of Harold Budd's early works. Year: 1981. 「Serpent」と「La Bella Vista」。この二作にBuddの素のエッセンスを強烈に感じます。After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. That's the good. Know that my review relates only to that part of this work. These aren't Harold Budd's most accessible recordings, but they're well worth listening to. Widows Charm 6. A great alblum. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Please try again. Of these Afar is perhaps my favorite with the pedal steel. Of these Afar is perhaps my favorite with the pedal steel.
Listen free to Harold Budd – The Serpent (In Quicksilver) (Afar, Wanderer and more). Living in the desert, this album really nails it. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. The absence of the human in these brooding pieces has the paradoxical effect of making you feel your own fragile humanity all the more, and making you appreciate how fragile & precious it really is.

Turns out Budd made the alblum nearby, which I take as further evidence of genius. That makes me an authority only of the haunted half of this compilation known as Abandoned Cities. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations These aren't Harold Budd's most accessible recordings, but they're well worth listening to. Children On The Hill 5. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for The Serpent (In Quicksilver) - Harold Budd on AllMusic - 1981 The Serpent (in Quicksilver) Originally issued in 1981 on Harold’s own label, Cantil. Other Versions (5 of 13) View All After years of slowly building my collection of Harold Budd's music, I saved this disc for almost last and I'm glad I did. In 1989 I was driving through Death Valley for the first time in an ancient car and a tape of this alblum...I was AWESTRUCK at how the music perfectly fit the terrain. A grounded, unique ambient record by one hell of a musician. "The Serpent (In Quicksilver) represents the stronger of the two albums in my opinion; I love the combination of Budd's piano playing with the pedal steel guitar of Chas Smith on "Afar".