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My Electric Episode 169 Playlist - a Harold Budd retrospective

"I'm somebody who plays the piano... Sometimes."

“The word ‘ambient’ doesn’t ring a bell with me. It’s meant to mean something but is, in fact, meaningless."

"It’s not relevant for me. My style is the only thing I can do well. I don’t think about genres."

"I don’t think about labels, they don’t have meanings.”

"I will tell you at the time to use the word ‘pretty music’ was kind of a political statement. It was against the received wisdom of what avant-garde music was at the time, which was confrontational. I was just trying to make it as devastatingly pretty as I possibly could."

                                           Harold Budd (1936-2020)

Hour 1

• Harold Budd - Flowered Knife Shadows
• Jon Neher & Michael Scott Dawson - Be Here Now
• Loscil - Estuarine
• Harold Budd + Simon Raymonde + Robin Guthrie + Elizabeth Fraser - The Ghost Has No Home
• The Circular Ruins - For the Last Time
• Harold Budd - Nove Alberi
• John Foxx & Harold Budd - Coming Into Focus
• Matthew Cardinal - Aug 23rd
• Harold Budd - Ice Floes In Eden

Hour 2

• Mount Maxwell - Islanders
• Harold Budd - Agnes Martin
• Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd - How Close Your Soul
• Harold Budd - Algebra of Darkness
• Harold Budd - The Foundry (for Mika Vainio)
• Ø - Talvipäiva, vanha motelli(winter day, old motel)
• Fictions and Poetics - It can only end like this
• ROM DOS - Nightblooming
• KYLE BOBBY DUNN - Confessions of the Mildly Miserable