The Room (album) explained

The Room
Type:Album
Artist:Harold Budd
Cover:The_Room_album.jpg
Released:August 15, 2000
Genre:Ambient
Length:54:52
Label:Atlantic[1]
Producer:Harold Budd
Prev Title:Fenceless Night: Selections for Cinema 1980-1998
Prev Year:1998
Next Title:Three White Roses and a Budd
Next Year:2002

The Room is an album composed and performed by Harold Budd, released in 2000.[1]

Production

Budd constructed The Room as a concept album about thematically different areas.[2] Budd produced the album.[3]

Critical reception

AllMusic wrote that "though some of the synthesizer textures verge on a little too much new age sweetness, [Budd's] piano is always a thing of tranquil beauty, veiled in layers of eerie echo, evoking a half-remembered dream." The Guardian wrote: "There was a time when every other musician with a synthesizer, a piano and a Portastudio was trying to make ambient statements like this, but the financial superstructure (not to mention the potential yuppie consumers) faded fast after Black Friday. Budd's choice of timbres and melodies, which manage to be pretty without insulting the intelligence, mean that the ambient legacy is in safe hands."[4] CMJ New Music Monthly deemed the album "remarkably vibrant."[5]

Track listing

  1. "The Room of Ancillary Dreams" – 6:08
  2. "The Room of Oracles" – 4:46
  3. "The Room of Stairs" – 5:21
  4. "The Room of Corners" – 5:05
  5. "The Room Alight" – 4:41
  6. "The Candied Room" – 3:41
  7. "The Room of Mirrors" – 7:07
  8. "The Room Obscured" – 1:03
  9. "The Room of Forgotten Children" – 2:16
  10. "The Room of Accidental Geometry" – 3:25
  11. "The Room of Secondary Light" – 4:38
  12. "The Flowered Room" – 4:26
  13. "The Room" – 2:15

References


Notes and References

  1. Web site: Harold Budd | Biography & History. AllMusic.
  2. Web site: Harold Budd, ambient composer and Eno collaborator, dies of COVID-19 complications at 84. December 9, 2020. Los Angeles Times.
  3. Web site: Reviews & Previews. Billboard. August 19, 2000. Nielsen Business Media, Inc.. Google Books.
  4. Web site: Different drummers | The Guardian | guardian.co.uk. www.theguardian.com.
  5. Web site: Reviews. CMJ New Music Monthly. November 29, 2000. CMJ Network, Inc.. Google Books.

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