Translucence/Drift Music [Import]

Product Description
UK twofer combines two previously unreleased albums the Ultravox founder/vocalist recorded with Harold Budd, perhaps best-known for his collaborations with Brian Eno, The Cocteau Twins, & Andy Partridge. Packaged in a double gatefold digipak with imagery designed by John Foxx. 27 tracks. Edsel. 2003.

Translucence/Drift Music,John Foxx,Harold Budd,Edsel Records UK,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop

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Translucence/Drift Music [Import]

Average customer rating: Serene, beautiful, poised and dreamy Suffering from insomnia? Forget Ambien... get ambient! Highly recommended Supreme Space Music

Translucence/Drift Music John Foxx , and Harold Budd Manufacturer: Edsel Records UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Avalon Sutra/As Long As I Can Hold My Breath Cathedral Oceans, Vol. 1-2 The White Arcades Mysterious Skin Through the Hill ASIN: B0000AM6P9 Release Date: 2003-09-01

Tracks:

1. Subtext
2. Spoken Roses
3. Momentary Architecture
4. Adult
5. Long Light
6. Change in the Weather
7. Here and Now
8. Almost Overlooked
9. Implicit
10. Raindust
11. Missing Person
12. You Again

Tracks:

1. Sunlit Silhouette
2. Other Room
3. Some Way Through All the Cities
4. Stepping Sideways
5. Delicate Romance
6. Linger
7. Curtains Blowing
8. Weather Patterns
9. Coming into Focus
10. After All This Time
11. Someone Almost There
12. Resonant Frequency
13. Avenue of Trees
14. Underwater Flowers
15. Arriving

Album Description

UK twofer combines two previously unreleased albums the Ultravox founder/vocalist recorded with Harold Budd, perhaps best-known for his collaborations with Brian Eno, The Cocteau Twins, & Andy Partridge. Packaged in a double gatefold digipak with imagery designed by John Foxx. 27 tracks. Edsel. 2003.

Album Details

Following the Success of the Edsel Reissues of John Foxx's Virgin Albums (Metamatic Etc) and the More Ambient "Cathedral Oceans I and Ii", We Now Present a Further Pair of Previously Unreleased Albums. Both of These Albums were Recorded with Harold Budd, Perhaps Best Known for his Ambient Music Collaborations with Brian Eno, the Cocteau Twins and XTC'S Andy Partridge, but who Has also Released Many Albums in his Own Right. Double CD Set of Two Previously Unreleased Albums, Packaged in a Digipak with Imagery Designed by John Foxx.

Customer Reviews:

Serene, beautiful, poised and dreamy.......2006-08-12

This is music I feel like listening to more and more, the older I get.

I guess many people would compare this recording to those of Brian Eno and that would be fair. However, I do feel that this recording has some unique qualities. The use of the piano is quite characteristic. Some of the music has a beautifully deep and hymn-like quality to it. If you liked the three Cathedral Oceans CDs, then you will find Translucence / Drift Music very agreeable, too.

I like to listen to this recording often. I have played it through and then played it again straight away.

I wonder if John Foxx ever plans on presenting any of this music live? Perhaps an orchestra would be interested in playing it?

Suffering from insomnia? Forget Ambien... get ambient!.......2006-03-15

That Ambien stuff is pretty scary... these popular and heavily advertised sleeping pills apparently cause people to sleepwalk, "sleep-eat" and even "sleep-drive"...

Well, there's a safer alternative for the chronically sleep deprived, thanks to the dynamic ambient duo of John Foxx and Harold Budd. Play Translucence or Drift Music at bedtime and you won't be awake for long. In fact, I still haven't made it all the way through either of these CDs without falling asleep...

Based on what I have been conscious enough to hear, Translucence is heavy on minimalist piano melodies -- processed, echoed, reverbed, and chorused to the max. Drift Music is all washes of serene synthesizer chords. There may be polka music on the final tracks, I can't be sure.

Keyboardist John Foxx was the front man for the electro-punk band Ultravox! before converting to New Age-ism in the mid-1980s. Harold Budd is of course one of the founding fathers of ambient music, best known for his collaborations with Brian Eno (who supposedly coined the term "ambient music"... maybe Eno should be suing Ambien's marketing people?)

If you're an obsessive Harold Budd completist (like I am), you'll eventually want to own this "missing link" in his discography. Otherwise, there's not much here to listen to, really... even by ambient music's standards. If you're suffering from insomnia, though, Translucence/Drift Music is available over-the-counter and, as far as I know, it won't cause you to drive to Denny's in the middle of the night.

Highly recommended.......2005-09-22

Very hard to avoid slipping into adjective overload.

Minimal piano sounds, tastefully manipulated and enhanced.

A good recording of piano music is amazing enough, but when this familiar instrument is looped and stretched in this way, the piano becomes even more amazing.

Mr. Budd worked with another famous producer in the 70s-80s, and made some of my favorite records. Mr Budd never quite returned to that sound, and I always wondered whether those records were just a product of the era, or perhaps Mr Budd didn't quite care for those sounds. I still don't know the answer to that, but I do know that Mr Budd is still quite capable of taking the tiniest, most delicate strings of notes and evoking powerful emotions - sometimes romantic or wistful, sometimes hopeless, isolated.

Adjectives again.

Buy it before it disappears.

Supreme.......2005-04-15

When I listen to anything by Harold Budd, I forget everything about this world and submerge into mind states that are indescribable. The music has the distinct effect of transporting your very soul into a place - for me - of solitude / isolation, peace, transcendence. It feels like being removed from the physical body and carried through the universe, maybe alighting on another planet, extraordinary and perfect. For best effect, find a quiet place to listen where you will NOT be disturbed.

Space Music.......2004-09-13

This music is very much ambient. Ambient music is music which does not try to fight for your attention. Rather, it fills up a space and allows the listener to either pay rapt attention to it (as I do) or concentrate on some other activity while listening (doing homework). I value music like this because it so RARE to find real, quality ambient music. Most so-called "ambient" music is ruined because it borders on that weak genre known as "new age." "New Age" music is generally horrible and of extreme low quality, filled with too much cheap excess.

What Foxx and Budd have crafted here is a true epic of ambience. Two cd's run the gamut through this genre. There are four types of songs found on this collection - the airy landscape, the sweet memory, the underwater themes, and the dark themes. They are all wonderfully done. Give it a listen.

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