The Pearl
Three minutes of Harold Budd's piano suspended in Eno's echo: the title piece of their second record together.
Brian Eno, from The Pearl (1984)
- Written by
- Harold Budd, Brian Eno
- Released
- 1984
- Length
- 3:08
- Album
- The Pearl
The title piece of The Pearl is Harold Budd at the piano, playing slowly with the sustain pedal down, inside a halo of Eno's treatments and Daniel Lanois's engineering, recorded at Grant Avenue in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1984. A reviewer at the time described the record as tranquil and reflective, mirroring the lustre of its title. Neither man ever explained the piece; it was never a single and has no known live performance. The upload in the hypersongs web is the 2005 remaster, credited under Budd's name.
More songs by Brian Eno
By This River, Help Me Somebody, Deep Blue Day
Sources
- The Pearl (album), Wikipedia
- Budd and Eno interview, 1984, Electronic Soundmaker, via More Dark Than Shark (1984-10)