Harold Budd: Jane 1. Jane 1 11 2013

Harold Budd: Music Jane Maru: Visuals Distr. by Darla Records Jane 111 is at least among Harold s very best work and may be his alltime best. Start to finish, this is Harold at his most inspired and most tapped in to his unique gift. There is no other Harold Budd record on which he so strongly expresses his singular avant sensibility. It s simple. I broke out and broke back to my earlier days: A triangle of risk, improvisation and joy as I say, very simple. My rules to myself were: No plan, no notes, no ideas, no microphones; except for Jane 1 I stuck to it. My other rule the most important one was: At least one piece per day, finished, mixed and not to be revisited again. Jane 7, 8, 9 were done in one Brad Ellis was my guide through this: An untiring day, ready to go To quote a letter to me from Mark Tobey:. .. It fell off the edge of my Harold Budd