Harold Budd & Hector Zazou - Glyph (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 336 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 168 Mb
Label: Made To Measure | # MTM 37 | Time: 01:00:55 | Scans included
Ambient, Experimental, Downtempo, Trip-Hop
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 336 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 168 Mb
Label: Made To Measure | # MTM 37 | Time: 01:00:55 | Scans included
Ambient, Experimental, Downtempo, Trip-Hop
Like drum 'n' bass, ambient is a genre which relies on making a little go a very long way; the resultant glut of weedy minimalist pastiches barely bears a cursory listen for the most part, but this collaboration between Harold Budd and Hector Zazou demonstrates better than any recent offering how the spaces between the sounds can be made pregnant with possibility. On "Pandas in Tandem", the ghost of Erik Satie treads lightly over a shuffle breakbeat; the result is fragile and crystalline, as tentatively pristine as snowflakes. Elsewhere, heavy rhythmic breathing carries "Around the Corner from Everywhere"; slivers of what sounds like hammered dulcimer undulate through "Johnny Cake", and clarinets collude conspiratorially on "As Fast as I Could Look Away She was Still There".