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專輯中文名: 白色拱廊
專輯英文名: The White Arcades
藝術家: Harold Budd
發行時間: 1988年
地區: 英國
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發行公司:All Saints Records
專輯風格:Ambient
專輯介紹:
這是一張標準的Ambient專輯,但Harold Budd所表現出來的氛圍效果跟其他的大師有所不同,由于他的鍵盤手出身,他的音樂也更多的以SOLO演奏來表現,更多的運用鋼琴,甚至電子效果也不會很復雜.
1936 年,氛圍音樂作曲家Harold Budd出生在California。于26歲起開始他的作曲生涯,很快的,在隨后的幾年中聲名鵲起。1966年從University of Southern California的作曲專業畢業之后作品便逐年減少。1976年他辭去了工作,和英國先鋒人物Brian Eno一起專心錄制新作品。兩年后Harold Budd發行了,從此建立了自己強大且獨特的個人風格。之后更拉攏了Brian Eno,兩人交集不斷,合作出和以原聲鋼琴小品為主線的兩張專輯。
拿Brian Eno相較,Harold Budd則更注重器樂所營造出的氛圍氣息,簡約而前衛。背景下合成的婉轉碎音由鋼琴帶出,宛如裊裊升起隨即消散的青煙。融合了popular jazz和avant-garde。與早期作品一樣,亦會存有非洲、巴西等地民俗的聽感體驗。不同于現在許多的氛圍音樂家讓音樂隨自己的情緒恣意延伸,漸而喪失核心的做法。Harold Budd更像是畫外音,以詩人的口吻帶人一步步潛入情境之中,讓結構完整得如同不自知而落入的圈套。僅有四曲,均由波瀾不驚的和聲堆砌,再以豎琴的彈撥來配合反復,制造出空、凈、思、遠的絕妙意境。
The White Arcades is one of Harold Budd’s most acclaimed albums. Recorded in the UK, and engineered by Brian Eno and Robin Guthrie (Cocteau Twins), the album has now been re-released with new artwork, although there seems no specific reason for its re-issue.
Here we find Budd building atmospheric soundtracks around his trademark piano in stereotypically ambient fashion. The devil really is in the detail on The White Arcades, as a multitude of synthesised layers are heavily textured to build icy walls of sound, with Budd’s interspersed piano offering moving, solitudory chinks of light.
Some of the tracks on here are incredibly esoteric, such as the opening, wandering piano of the classic title track and the following Balthus Bemused By Colour, which is illuminated by some gorgeous deep synths.
Elsewhere, Totems Of The Red-Sleeved Warrior contains some remarkable choral voices - if truth were told this is a decade ahead of its time, whilst Coyote sees Budd in top form, as hynotic piano melodies saunter incisively and somewhat mischievously over low-end synths. The Kiss closes with heartbreaking fragility – this is what ambient means to me.
The White Arcades carries so much of Budd’s personality; perhaps more than any other of his releases, and the production, even 17 years on, has a certain timelessness. The White Arcades is as relevant and enjoyable now as upon its original release, and probably forever.
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