Harold Budd, Jane Maru - Jane 1-11

CD+DVD video accompaniment to each track on Harold Budd's most recent album Jane 1-11 by esteemed visual artist Jane Maru.

Jane 1-11 is at least among Harold's very best work and may be his all-time best. Start to finish, this is Harold at his most inspired and most tapped in to his unique gift. There is no other Harold Budd record on which he so strongly expresses his singular avant sensibility.

"It's simple. I broke out and broke back to my earlier days: A triangle of risk, improvisation and joy -- as I say, very simple. My rules to myself were: No plan, no notes, no ideas, no microphones; except for Jane 1 I stuck to it. My other rule -- the most important one -- was: At least one piece per day, finished, mixed and not to be revisited again. Jane 7, 8, 9 were done in one day... Brad Ellis was my guide through this: An untiring day, ready to go again... To quote a letter to me from Mark Tobey: ... "It fell off the edge of my brush."" -- Harold Budd

File under Avant-garde, Electronic.

Recommended if you like The Plateaux of Mirror, The Pearl, Lovely Thunder, The White Arcades.

Who is Jane? Check out Jane Maru, Artist.

Cover art by Jane Maru.

"It's simple. I broke out and broke back to my earlier days: a triangle of risk, improvisation and joy -- as I say, very simple. My rules to myself were: no plan, no notes, no ideas, no microphones; except for Jane 1 I stuck to it. My other rule -- the most important one -- was: at least one piece per day, finished, mixed and not to be revisited again. Jane 7,8,9 were done in one day... Brad Ellis was my guide through this: an untiring day, ready to go again...

I'm a fan of Maru's art and have been for a decade. (No artspeak here from me). I think it was November 2012, that I said to her (at an art show in Joshua Tree) that she and I will collaborate -- I'd made up my mind, rather in anger, which doesn't need going on about.

To quote a letter to me from Mark Tobey: ... it fell of the edge of my brush"

- Harold Budd, April 7, 2013

1. Jane 1
2. Jane 2
3. Jane 3
4. Jane 4
5. Jane 5
6. Jane 6
7. Jane 7
8. Jane 8
9. Jane 9
10. Jane 10
11. Jane 11