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Song for Lost Blossoms

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Harold Budd and Clive Wright have hit a grand slam with this new CD.

I like this CD as much as any other collaboration that Budd has done in the past, which is no small accomplishment considering the numerous outstanding collaborations throughout his illustrious career, including classic collaborations with Brian Eno. Clive Wright brings a lot to this effort with Budd. Although lessser known, Wright is a force with the haunting guitar melodies and crisp production and mastering he adds on this CD. I rate this CD as high as my favorite Budd classics such as The Plateau of Mirror and The Pearl, both with Eno. I like it as much as The White Arcades and La Bella Vista, both solo works. I wish Budd would tour more, but since a couple of tracks on this CD were recorded live it satisifies my desire for more live Budd performances. I hope he continues his collaborations and believe his work would sound great with the emerging musical talents of the alternative rock band Sunday's Murder. Such a collaboration with this young and talented band would be sublime. In any event, solo or collaborative efforts by Harold Budd, the Godfather of amient music, is a must for your ambient collection.

I first heard two of the tracks on this album on YouTube and I immediately wanted to buy the album. However, I found out that it would not be released for another five months. So I pre-ordered a copy and anxiously waited for it to come out. This album was well well worth the wait.

I have been an ambient fan for about a decade or more and this has become one of my favorites collections of ambient music. I have about five Harold Budd albums and this is probably my favorite of them all. Not to mention, Clive Wright is absolutely perfect on this album. Indeed, I think that Clive Wright's playing is what really makes me fall in love with this album.

The first track is 32 minutes long, and it is basically beyond words for me. It really is very close to being perfect in my opinion. There really is only about one track that I actually do not care much for. The two tracks of Clive Wright playing live are so phenomenal to me; I have listened to those two tracks in addition to the first track so many times now.

I find that it is hard to buy ambient music based on reviews by other listeners, because some of the albums that people say they love, I find that I don't love quite as much as they do. So having said that, I don't know if you will admire and cherish this album as much as I do, what I am saying is that I am extremely impressed by several of the songs on this album, and it is very hard to please my critical musical sensibilities.

Thank you Harold Budd and Clive Wright for this truly thoughtful and beautiful music; in some ways I think that this is arguably some of Harold Budd's finest music. Many thanks again, I will treasure these recordings for the rest of this life. Cheers.

I have been listening to Ambient music since 1978. Harold Budd is a rare artist who has a melodic motif for a genre that can erase it. This CD is good enough to be compared with Ambient series of Eno, but while Eno has gone pop, Budd relives the Ambient as it should be. Do not mistake this for New Age - this is not saccharine but introspective. It is so good to hear the master mature and perfect the genre. After all Les Paul continues to have a regular gig on Mondays and he is well into his nineties. I am glad that HB decided that he will not retire.

There's a certain quality to Harold Budd's music that sets it far above & far apart from the usual "New Age" category ... it's a sumptuous minimalism, a rich & almost erotic ethereal atmosphere. While it can certainly be used as background, it would be a pity to restrict it to that, because it always rewards deeper listening.

That's certainly true of this latest offering, which envelops the listener in a chilly, melancholy beauty. It has a dreamlike tone -- not merely a dreamy haziness, but the clarity & piercing emotional directness of a vivid dream. It's like floating in a cool sea at evening, gazing up at the stars as they appear, while memories of lost love & childhood joys drift like the ghosts of moths in your mind.

Most highly recommended!

When I listen to "Lost Blossoms", I am floored by the beauty in Budd's understated piano improvization. In particular, it seems not to be coming from Budd's piano, but rather from all the ordinary things that surround the listener, even the listener's own humble thoughts and emotions.

As with Budd's other best works like "The Pearl" and "The Plateaux of Mirror", this is excellent music for bringing out the hidden beauty in all of the small good things in life: walking, reading, praying, watching, sleeping, crying, kissing, doing laundry, cooking. It's a soundtrack for all the simple joys of life.

The holy magic of this album--the power to teach joy and gratitude of life to the listener--is really spectatular. The good news is that while this kind of music is rare in general, Harold Budd finds it easy to make. He has a bunch of other great albums in this same vein, check them out.

Another artist with a similar feel is the Stars of the Lid. You should definitely listen to them if you enjoy this.

This is really so wonderful. Clive Wright's guitar is actually more pensive and expressive than Robin Guthrie's so don't hesitate to throw yourself in here. This music suggests an unashamedly pure phenomenology of feeling as you always expect from Budd. Sensual, blissful, melancholy and longing. I think of Iris Murdoch's novel The Sea, The Sea and move to the Moon and the Melodies in terms of concept, not sound. Sea, Swallow Me.

I love this disc. it is as good as everything he has ever done. it reminded me of the projects that he did with Brian Eno, which I can listen to till the end of time.

Harold Budd is the best "new age" artist out there. Lost Blossoms is full of beautiful music and nice poetry. Clive Wright's guitar work beautifully accentuates Harold Budd's piano.