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Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie
12+ albums
ambientelectronicpianomelancholic
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Robin Guthrie, co-founder of Cocteau Twins, has teamed up with legendary minimalist composer Harold Budd, to create live soundtracks for masterpieces of avant-garde cinema including works by Maya Deren, Bruce Baillie and more. Collaborators on the seminal album The Moon & The Melodies and Harold Budd's The White Arcades, Guthrie and Budd have more recently partnered to create the soundtrack for Gregg Araki's "Mysterious Skin", winner of the '05 SIFF Golden Space Needle Award. This screening performance offered a unique chance to see landmark avant-garde films coupled with the meditative poetics of Guthrie & Budd's distinctive music. The two of them do very comparable things with their respective instruments: they both have a ginger, intimately familiar touch on their instruments as regards the actual physical contact of musician-on-instrument, as well as a compelling and visionary feel for the possibilities of sonic space unique to their own instrument. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
