# Harold Budd discography

Harold Budd (born May 24, 1936 - December 7, 2020) was an American ambient/avant-garde composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles, he was raised in the Mojave Desert.
His discography consists of fifteen studio albums, one EP, three live albums, three soundtrack albums and several collaborations with other artists. His first recording The Oak of the Golden Dreams / Coeur D'Orr was released in 1971, but subsequently Budd didn't release anything until Brian Eno released The Pavilion of Dreams on his Obscure Records label in 1978. Since then he has been a prolific recording artist.
Eno produced his second album The Pavilion of Dreams and they worked together in collaboration on Ambient 2:The Plateaux of Mirror in 1980 and followed it in 1984 with The Pearl. In 1986 he worked with Cocteau Twins on The Moon and the Melodies, and subsequently he has worked frequently with Robin Guthrie on several albums including soundtracks to the films Mysterious Skin and White Bird in a Blizzard. Other frequent collaborators include Hector Zazou, John Foxx and Clive Wright amongst others.
This article contains information related to his recordings.

## Studio albums

| Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
| 1971 | The Oak of the Golden Dreams / Coeur D'Orr | Advance Recordings | FGR 16 | |
| 1978 | The Pavilion of Dreams | E.G. | EGS 301 | Produced by Brian Eno |
| 1981 | The Serpent (In Quicksilver) | Cantil | 181 | Reissued with Abandoned Cities by Opal Records (1989) |
| 1984 | Abandoned Cities | Cantil | 384 | Reissued with The Serpent (In Quicksilver) by Opal Records (1989) |
| 1986 | Lovely Thunder | E.G. | EGED 46 | Produced by Michael Hoenig, released December 1, 1986 |
| 1988 | The White Arcades | Opal | 9 25766-2 | Produced by Brian Eno |
| 1991 | By the Dawn's Early Light | Opal | 9 26649-2 | With Bill Nelson Reissued in 1996 by All Saints Records |
| 1996 | Luxa | All Saints Records | ASCD30 | Released September 1, 1996 |
| 2000 | The Room | Atlantic | 7567-83382-2 | Released: August 15, 2000 |
| 2003 | La Bella Vista | Shout Factory | DK 30373 | Released: October 7. 2003 |
| 2004 | Avalon Sutra / As Long as I Can Hold My Breath | Samadhi Sound | Sound CD SS004 | Produced by Harold Budd Released: January 18, 2005 |
| 2011 | In The Mist | Darla | DRL248 | Released: September 27, 2011 |
| 2012 | Bandits of Stature | Darla | DRL262 | Released: November 27, 2012 |
| 2013 | Jane 1-11 | Darla | DRL281 | Released: June 4, 2013 |
| 2014 | Jane 12-21 | Darla | DRL289 | Released: September 9, 2014 |

## Live albums

| Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
| 1994 | She is a Phantom | New Albion | NA066CD | With Zeitgeist Recorded live at Westminster Church, Minneapolis, November 20, 1993 |
| 1995 | Agua | Sine | SIN003 | Live at the Lanzarote Music Festival, December 1989 |
| 2007 | Perhaps | Samadhi Sound | SOUND-DL 001 | Recorded live at California Institute of Arts December 8, 2006 Released: February 9, 2007 |

## Compilation albums

| Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
| 1987 | Myths 3: La Nouvelle Sérenité | Sub Rosa | SUB 33003-5 | With Gavin Bryars & Jon Hassell Track No. 2 "Cartago Sand Dancing" and No. 3 "Strange Thunder" |
| 1988 | Music for Films III | Opal | 9 25769-2 | Brian Eno's Music for Films series (Track No. 5 "Balthus Bemused by Color") Reissued in 1992 by All Saints Records |
| 1989 | The Serpent (In Quicksilver) / Abandoned Cities | Opal | 9 26025-2 | Released: September 19, 1989 Reissued by All Saints Records (2005) |
| 1997 | Unlimited Ambient | Gruppo Futura | (None) | With Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni - track No. 5 "The Valley of Pamir" With Daniel Lentz and Jessica Karraker - track No. 8 "Beyond This Veil", No. 10 "Interlude 6" and No. 15 "Begin Then Not Know (Reprise)" |
| 1998 | Fenceless Night: Selections for Cinema 1980-1998 | Polygram | PMP 018 | Promotional sampler containing a selection of Budd's work, including solo works and collaborations with Brian Eno, Hector Zazou, Cocteau Twins, Andy Partridge and Daniel Lanois |
| 2006 | Compounds + Elements | All Saints Records | HNCD 1510 | Released: February 21, 2006 All Saints Records sampler containing several tracks by Budd |
| 2013 | Budd Box Sampler | All Saints Records | WASTBOX1PROMO | Promotional sampler containing a 15 track selection of Budd's work for the 7 CD box |
| 2013 | Budd Box | All Saints Records | WASTBOX1 | Released: December 9, 2013 7 CD box set in a white box containing The Serpent (In Quicksilver), Abandoned Cities, The White Arcades, By The Dawn's Early Light, Music For 3 Pianos, Through The Hill, Luxa |
| 2018 | Budd Box | All Saints Records | WASTBOX1X | Released: April 18, 2018 6 CD box set (black box, 2nd edition) containing The Serpent (In Quicksilver), Abandoned Cities, The White Arcades, By The Dawn's Early Light, Music For 3 Pianos, Luxa |

## EPs

| Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
| 1981 | The Serpent (in Quicksilver) | Cantil | 181 | Also released in 1982 by Les Disques Du Crepuscule, Belgium Reissued with Abandoned Cities by Opal Records (1989) |

## Soundtracks

| Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
| 2005 | Mysterious Skin - Music from the Film | Commotion | CR008 | Released: May 24, 2005 With Robin Guthrie |
| 2014 | White Bird in a Blizzard | Lakeshore | LKS344142 | Released: September 23, 2014 With Robin Guthrie |
| 2020 | I Know This Much Is True (Music From The HBO Series) | All Saints Records | WAST062DL | Released: Jun 13, 2020 |

## Collaborative albums

| Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
| 1980 | Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror | E.G. | EGAMB 002 | With Brian Eno |
| 1984 | The Pearl | E.G. | EGED 37 | With Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois |
| 1986 | The Moon and the Melodies | 4AD | CAD 611 | With Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie and Elizabeth Fraser |
| 1991 | Music for 3 Pianos EP | All Saints Records | ASCD14 | Released: January 1, 1991 With Daniel Lentz & Ruben Garcia |
| 1994 | Through the Hill | All Saints Records | ASCD21 | Released: July 8, 1994 With Andy Partridge |
| 1995 | Glyph | Made To Measure | MTM 37 | Released: December 12, 1995 With Hector Zazou |
| 1996 | Glyph Remixes EP | SSR | SSR 163 | Released: June 17, 1996 With Hector Zazou |
| 1998 | Walk Into My Voice: American Beat Poetry | Materiali Sonori | MASO CD 90085 | With Daniel Lentz & Jessica Karraker |
| 2002 | Jah Wobble's Solaris - Live In Concert | 30 Hertz Records | 30HZCD18 | Released: July 27, 2002 With Jah Wobble, Graham Haynes, Jaki Liebezeit & Bill Laswell |
| 2002 | Three White Roses and a Budd EP | Twentythree Records | T 016 | Released: August 27, 2002 With Fila Brazillia and Bill Nelson |
| 2003 | Translucence/Drift Music | Edsel | MEDCD 727 | Released: August 26, 2003 With John Foxx |
| 2005 | Music for 'Fragments from the Inside' | Sub Rosa | SR239 | Recorded live at Palazzo Delle Papesse (Siena, Italy) June 26, 2003 Released: May 17, 2005 With Eraldo Bernocchi |
| 2007 | After the Night Falls | Darla | DRL182 | Released: July 16, 2007 With Robin Guthrie |
| 2007 | Before the Day Breaks | Darla | DRL183 | Released: July 16, 2007 With Robin Guthrie |
| 2008 | A Song for Lost Blossoms | Darla | DRL198 | Released: October 7, 2008 With Clive Wright |
| 2009 | Candylion | Darla | DRL221 | Released: May 26, 2009 With Clive Wright |
| 2010 | Little Windows | Darla | DRL 234 | Released: June 8, 2010 With Clive Wright |
| 2011 | Bordeaux | Darla | DRL244 | Released: February 7, 2011 With Robin Guthrie |
| 2011 | Nighthawks, Translucence and Drift Music | Edsel | EDSX3011 | Released: June 27, 2011 With John Foxx and Ruben Garcia (on Nighthawks) |
| 2011 | Winter Garden | RareNoiseRecords | RNR021 | Released: November 29, 2011 With Eraldo Bernocchi and Robin Guthrie |
| 2013 | Jane 1-11 | Darla | DRL287 | CD+DVD with video accompaniment to each album track by visual artist Jane Maru |
| 2015 | Nighthawks | Metamatic | META55CD | Released: July 4, 2015 With John Foxx and Ruben Garcia |
| 2015 | The Little Glass | Akira Rabelais | (None) | Released: December 3, 2015 With Akira Rabelais |
| 2020 | Another Flower | Darla | DRL360 | Recorded in Brittany in 2013 Released: December 4, 2020 With Robin Guthrie |

## Guest appearances

| Year | Title | Label | Catalogue number | Notes |
| 1975 | Vista | Impulse | ASD 9304 | With Marion Brown Celeste and gong on track No. 5 (also composition of track) |
| 2009 | No Line On The Horizon | Mercury | 1796037 | Released: February 27, 2009 With U2 Instrumentation on track No. 11 "Cedars of Lebanon" |

## Production

| Year | Artist | Album | Notes |
| 1981 | Gene Bowen | Bourgeois Magnetic | Production and instrumentation |

## Ephemera

* The indie rock band Rothko has a song titled "Harold Budd" on their album In the Pulse of An Artery (which uses a sample from Budd's "Boy About 10" from his album By the Dawn's Early Light.)
* Harold Budd and Eugene Bowen contributed the track "Wonder's Edge" to the Cold Blue label compilation.
* The Harold Budd track "Balthus Bemused By Colour" from his album The White Arcades is included as part of the 70 Minutes of Madness DJ mix by Coldcut.
* On saxophonist Marion Brown's 1975 album Vista, Harold Budd plays celeste and gong on the track "Bismillahi 'Rrahmani 'Rrahim", a shorter version of the same composition on Budd's 1978 album The Pavilion of Dreams (which also includes Marion Brown as saxophone soloist).
* In 1961, while in the military, Harold Budd briefly played drums in an Army band with legendary avant-garde saxophonist Albert Ayler.
* The track "Subtext" from Budd's album Translucence with John Foxx features in the film Inside I'm Dancing (Momentum Pictures, June 2004)