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Harold Budd / Brian Eno - Ambient 2 The Plateaux Of Mirror flac album

Harold Budd / Brian Eno - Ambient 2 The Plateaux Of Mirror flac album
  • Performer Harold Budd
  • Title Ambient 2 The Plateaux Of Mirror
  • Date of release 2004
  • Country UK
  • Style Minimal, Ambient
  • Other formats AUD DXD MOD WMA VOX WAV ADX
  • Genre Electronic
  • Size MP3 1728 mb
  • Size FLAC 1278 mb
  • Rating: 4.2
  • Votes: 293

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The second in Brian Eno's ambient series, The Plateaux of Mirrors fuses the fragile piano melodies of Harold Budd and the atmospheric electronics of Eno to create a lovely, evocative work. In sharp contrast to the exaggerated pieces found on his debut, The Pavilion of Dreams, this record finds Budd delivering sharp shards of piano notes pregnant with meaning and minimal in the best sense of the word. The album's best moments evoke their subject matter efficaciously and effortlessly; "First Light" creates an audible early morning chill, "An Arc of Doves" employs flights of Frippertronics, "Not Yet Remembered" seesaws between sleep and consciousness, and so on. Although neither artist is a musician in the usual sense of the word - Budd's piano playing is still somewhat limited here - they excel as musical painters.

The Plateaux matches Eno's other ambient albums in its moments of deep beauty, though it does little to mute the human presence. One gets the feeling that Harold Budd was after something slightly different from Eno, as his playing seems a bit busy under the concept at hand. Still, left on in the background, Plateaux is a light-filled album that accomplishes the goal of transforming its environment. It can turn any room into a place of fragile reverence, and it can offer poignancy to the most mundane of actions.

A new version of Last. Harold Budd/Brian Eno. Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror. Overview (current section).

Loved: First Light, Steal Away, The Plateaux of Mirror, Above Chiangmai, An Arc of Doves, Failing Light Liked: Not Yet Remembered, The Chill Air, Among Fields of Crystal Disliked: Wind In Lonely Fences. 2. 3y. snarekickblues. NR. Best Track: First Light, An Arc Of Doves, Not Yet Remembered, or Wind In The Lonely Fences Worst Track: Chill Air Most Overrated Track: Above Chiangmai Most Underrated Track: Steal Away.

Harold Budd will make another album in the future with Brian Eno, The Pearl, one that will reach the same valences of great, impeccable, impressive side of imagination and of perception. Overall the two statements that exist, but most importantly Plateux Of Mirror, denote how Budd is an important artist among the collaborators or the musical friends of Brian Eno (at how euphorically great the works done with Budd, I would certainly place him among Fripp, among Bryne, among such that emit, in a modest way, attention and applauds). In the following "Ambient 3", Laraaji does all the work, while Eno produces. Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror" continues with that style that already was starting to develop in "Discreet Music", and reached it's peak with "Ambient 1:Music For Airports". That style, or better calling it genre, is known as ambient music, which gives a part of the title of this album.

Harold Budd and Brian Eno's Ambient 2 (or The Plateaux Of Mirror) is a time-lapse shoot of a flower, showing the impending doom of it's eventual death. A compilation of withdrawn drama, an exploration of introverted narcissism in it's purest form. Above Chiangmai" is a clear example of this.

Tracklist Hide Credits

1 First Light 7:08
2 Steal Away
Composed By – Eugene Bowen
1:29
3 The Plateaux Of Mirror 4:14
4 Above Chiangmai 2:55
5 An Arc Of Doves 6:29
6 Not Yet Remembered 3:50
7 The Chill Air 2:13
8 Among Fields Of Crystal 3:24
9 Wind In Lonely Fences 3:58
10 Failing Light 4:14

Credits

  • Composed By – Brian Eno (tracks: 1, 3 to 10), Harold Budd
  • Design [Original Masters Re-design, Of The Red Room/emi] – Andrew Day
  • Instruments [Other Instruments], Effects [Treatments], Producer – Brian Eno
  • Piano [Acoustic], Electric Piano – Harold Budd
  • Remastered By [Mastered Dsd] – Simon Heyworth
  • Technician [Ampex 2ch Tape Playback With Aria Electronics] – David Hill

Notes

Special thanks for their help and co-operation to Bob and Danny Lanois at Grant Avenue Studio, Ontario, to Eugene Bowen at the Old Rugged Cross and to Roddy Hui.
Originally recorded in 1980.

Mastered DSD at Super Audio Mastering.
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All titles published by Universal Music - MGB Songs o/b/o E.G. Music Ltd.

℗ 2004, 1980 Virgin Records Ltd. Manufactured and marketed by Astralwerks.

Made in the USA.

US Pressing in jewelcase.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 0 724386 649720

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
EGAMB 002 Harold Budd / Brian Eno Harold Budd / Brian Eno - Ambient 2 (The Plateaux Of Mirror) ‎(LP, Album) Editions EG EGAMB 002 UK 1980
0777 7 87129 2 3, V2 87129 Harold Budd / Brian Eno Harold Budd / Brian Eno - Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror ‎(CD, Album) Editions EG, Virgin, Virgin Music Canada 0777 7 87129 2 3, V2 87129 Canada Unknown
MPF 1321, MPF1321 Harold Budd & Brian Eno Harold Budd & Brian Eno - The Plateaux Of Mirror ‎(LP, Album, Promo) Editions EG, Editions EG MPF 1321, MPF1321 Japan 1980
50999 6 84526 2 9, ENOCDX 7 Harold Budd / Brian Eno Harold Budd / Brian Eno - Ambient 2 The Plateaux Of Mirror ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM) EMI, EMI 50999 6 84526 2 9, ENOCDX 7 UK & Europe 2009
EEGCD 18 Harold Budd / Brian Eno Harold Budd / Brian Eno - Ambient 2 The Plateaux Of Mirror ‎(CD, Album, RP) Editions EG EEGCD 18 UK Unknown