Harold Budd - Pavilion of DreamsFor 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

but it was finally released in May 1980

dabbling in sounds foreign to the band such as funky brass sections

spend no more than 7 days tracking

Drip Dry Eyes - Yukihiro Takahashi

He did the last record too

Trevor Johnson will have full artistic control of new art and design on all the albums

hypnotic mantras and ornately arranged songcraft

4am whiskey-soaked sessions and Mario Kart ’64 on demand

‰Û÷Coma‰۪ and ‰Û÷Radial‰۪ are the first songs to be heard from their recording sessions made in Sub Station Studios in Rosyth in Scotland with the current line up of Robert Hampson (vocals/guitar)

It is a document of protest in uncertain times andåÊan open-hearted rejection of cynicism in favor of emotional honesty

the band returned in the autumn with the equally stunning American Beauty

profound and funny diarist of the human condition in the persistently testing