The Pavilion of Dreams

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The 1978 recording debut from reformed avant-garde composer and eventual ambient forerunner Harold Budd consists of four chamber works (written between 1972 and 1975) that use varying combinations of harp, mallet instruments, piano, saxophone, and female or male vocals. Two years before his fateful first studio collaboration with Brian Eno (who produced this album), Budd was creating hypnotic music in an acoustic mode. All of the works herein--including "Two Rooms," whose latter half is an adaptation of John Coltrane's "After the Rain"--sustain a similarly dreamy vibe. An important credo for Budd was to make music as pretty as possible as an antidote to the noisy avant-garde he had escaped from. One cannot fault him for the lovely sounds he creates here, although fans familiar with his more cinematic works might be caught off-guard. Regardless, the pleasant Pavilion of Dreams provides insight into Budd's past, and it offers the same somniferous effect as a gentle lullaby, making it perfect for late-evening listening. --Bryan Reesman

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The Pavilion of Dreams

The Pavilion of Dreams
The Pavilion of Dreams
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A beautiful and calming listening experience...
  • Glorious, heavenly music
  • The best antidote for insomnia and for kicking babies
  • 4 stars
  • Perhaps the greatest rainy day CD
 The Pavilion of Dreams
Harold Budd
Manufacturer: Editions Eg Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003S2T
Release Date: 1992-04-24

Tracks:

  1. Bismillahi 'Rrahman 'Rrahman
  2. Two Songs: 1. Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord/2. Butterfly Sunday
  3. Madrigals Of The Rose Angel: 1. Rosetti Stone/2.The Crystal Garden And A Coda
  4. Juno

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The 1978 recording debut from reformed avant-garde composer and eventual ambient forerunner Harold Budd consists of four chamber works (written between 1972 and 1975) that use varying combinations of harp, mallet instruments, piano, saxophone, and female or male vocals. Two years before his fateful first studio collaboration with Brian Eno (who produced this album), Budd was creating hypnotic music in an acoustic mode. All of the works herein--including "Two Rooms," whose latter half is an adaptation of John Coltrane's "After the Rain"--sustain a similarly dreamy vibe. An important credo for Budd was to make music as pretty as possible as an antidote to the noisy avant-garde he had escaped from. One cannot fault him for the lovely sounds he creates here, although fans familiar with his more cinematic works might be caught off-guard. Regardless, the pleasant Pavilion of Dreams provides insight into Budd's past, and it offers the same somniferous effect as a gentle lullaby, making it perfect for late-evening listening. --Bryan Reesman

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A beautiful and calming listening experience..........2006-11-16

I grabbed this CD because I heard Bismillahi 'Rrahman 'Rrahman on a internet radio stream once. The song is about 18 minutes long and I think it is the best song on the CD (though everyone talks about Juno, I prefer Bismillahi 'Rrahman 'Rrahman). Everyone I've played this song for has loved it, no matter what their musical tastes are.

Because I bought this CD just for one song I heard, I was a little disappointed at first when I played the other 3 tracks on this CD and found there were a bit different. I was expecting them to be just like Bismillahi 'Rrahman 'Rrahman but they're not. They are very good though and I've grown to like them.

While this CD is great for relaxing or taking away stress, I like to listen to it whenever I want to take an introspective journey. It has a magical feeling to it, like a dream. The Album name "The Pavilion of Dreams" is quite fitting.

5 out of 5 stars Glorious, heavenly music.......2005-02-11

I don't own any other music that I love more than Pavilion of Dreams. This is the ultimate form of whatever you'd call the intricate and genuinely magical compositions found here. Labels fall short.

These songs remind me of the footsteps of astronauts on as-yet-undiscovered planets. Truly from another world, or a world beyond this one. Enlightened and magnificent. There is no better music. This one's a bull's-eye.

Desires quelled
I sit by the half-open brushwood door
the Spring day through

Not a glimpse of the other world, but a peaceful stroll hand-in-hand with God some leisurely afternoon... the center of the universe.

C'mon, you can part with a few bucks to hear this music, it's more than worth it.

5 out of 5 stars The best antidote for insomnia and for kicking babies.......2003-09-26

I was fortunate to run into this album just as I started suffering of insomnia the last few days before the arrival of our new baby boy. I now see two great uses for this beautiful music by avant-garde artist Harold Budd: playing it to sleep (yourself) and playing it to a baby in the tummy -it proved to calm him down when he was moving like crazy.

On a more musical note, this album opened up the early seventies' work of Budd to me. I wasn't familiarized with his collaborations with Brian Eno, of which this would be only the first, with Eno sitting in the producer's seat. A very nice starting point or point of arrival for ambient explorators and in general, for those who appreciate the subtlety of a work that stands for the mellow California minimalism.

4 out of 5 stars 4 stars.......2003-06-21

Music of contemplative nature creating a soundscape full with absolute stillness. It is evocative of long forgotten memories and puts one in a state of floatation or ethereal feelings. As an early CD by Mr. Budd it obviously hints on the direction he were to take for his following work. Four stars...

5 out of 5 stars Perhaps the greatest rainy day CD.......2001-02-21

I have owned this album for more than ten years and it is truly beautiful. It is best on a warm rainy day. Harold Budd is usually classified under New Age, which is a shame, given what garbage one finds under that genre.

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