Harold Budd

USA

Born: 24 May 1936

Years Active: 60, 70, 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, New Age, Electronic

Styles: Neo-Classical, Contemporary Instrumental, Experimental Electronic, Modern Composition, Ambient, Electronica, Experimental, Minimalism

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The American ambient/neo-classical composer who has most closely allied himself with the increasingly sympathetic independent rock underground -- through his collaborations with the Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie -- Harold Budd is also one of the very few who can very rightly be called an ambient composer. His music, a sparse and tonal wash of keyboard treatments, was inspired by a boyhood spent listening to the buzz of telephone wires near his home in the Mojave Desert town of Victorville, CA (though he was born in nearby Los Angeles). Though in...

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