total zen budd(hism) moments.

Those of you who follow the soundtracks we put out on Monotonik know that I'm a fan of music that projects stillness, floating, calm - the halcyon. Nobody does it better than Harold Budd, the American-born neo-classical ambient artist, who is a little reclusive, a lot under-rated, and just plain gorgeous to listen to, all treated piano and transcendental spaces. He has a wonderful catalog dating back 20 or 30 years, and i'm especially enamoured with the 'Serpent In Quicksilver/Abandoned Cities' CD re-issuing his early '80s material, evocative of haze-drenched Californian deserts. Here's a good feature focusing on his catalog, philosophies and methods, also mentioning his many collaborators, of which the divine Fila Brazillia are now the newest..