White Arcades

Harold Budd | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 80
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000005JAR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #273,157 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. White Arcades

2. Balthus Bemused by Color

3. The Child with a Lion

4. The Real Dream of Sails

5. Algebra of Darkness

6. Totems of the Red-Sleeved Warrior

7. The Room

8. Coyote

9. The Kiss

Editorial Reviews

2003 reissue of 1987 album from the ambient, pianist composer. All Saints/Opal. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Otherworldly. Ethereal. Mesmerizing. Transfixing., November 10, 2004

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Wes (World Citizen, Earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: White Arcades (Audio CD)

When this was originally released in the 80's, I happened to be going through a rough time. I happened to come across this and it just completely took me away...I felt like I was walking the surface of Pluto, in deep, cold, icy space. The layers of sound, listening in a darkened room, really helped to deal with things. It was like medicine. Listen to this in the dark, without any disturbance and be put into a trance...

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars lovely thunder..., August 7, 2003

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john gill (Ronda 29400, Malaga Spain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: White Arcades (Audio CD)

This recording is an ambient/minimal milestone, and one of of my desert island top ten discs. It helped me write no less than two books, and accompanied untold thunderstorms in a memorable winter on a small Greek island writing one of them. I adore White Arcades more than anything else I own by Harold Budd.

But why is his label charging twenty dollars/euros for a CD rerelease of a recording that used to sell for a third of that? I don't have an argument with need, but I do have an argument with greed.

Say it ain't so, Hal.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I am brooding., July 2, 2008

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Jason Merlo "BooBowie" (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: White Arcades (Audio CD)

I have a new job, a new house, and a new baby daughter.

I am very stressed out right now.

I am brooding. I can't stop and I'm losing sleep.

This album is really helping me cope with it all.

Thank you, Mr. Budd, for taking my mind off of things.

I'm so glad you didn't really retire.