Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror

The first Budd and Eno album: Budd improvising at the piano while Eno treated the sound as it was played.
Harold Budd, 1980

Released
April 1980
Recorded
1979
Studio
Grant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario
Label
E.G.
Producer
Brian Eno
Length
39:30

Recorded at Grant Avenue in 1979 and issued in April 1980, the album was made by Budd improvising while Eno processed the piano in real time. Its ten pieces run from the seven-minute First Light to the brief Steal Away. AllMusic's Dave Connolly called it a lovely, evocative work, and Pitchfork gave it 8.4.

Track listing

  1. First Light6:59
  2. Steal Away1:29
  3. The Plateaux of Mirror4:10
  4. Above Chiangmai2:49
  5. An Arc of Doves6:22
  6. Not Yet Remembered3:50
  7. The Chill Air2:13
  8. Among Fields of Crystal3:24
  9. Wind in Lonely Fences3:57
  10. Failing Light4:17

More from Harold Budd

The Pavilion of Dreams (1978), The Serpent (In Quicksilver) (1981), The Pearl (1984)

Sources

  1. Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror, Wikipedia