ERALDO BERNOCCHI, HAROLD BUDD & ROBIN GUTHRIE
CREATE AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPES ON
WINTER GARDEN
At a time when music is becoming faster, louder, glitzier and everyone is looking for the perfect hook, three visionary artists have pooled their talents to bring a cleansing breath to the modern musical landscape. With Winter Garden (out March 13), producer-sound designer and RareNoiseRecords co-founder Eraldo Bernocchi has teamed up with the enigmatic poet-pianist-composer and ambient music pioneer Harold Budd and multi-instrumentalist-sound engineer Robin Guthrie to present an ambient music offering of rare beauty. Contrary to more conventional band recordings, Winter Garden, can be thought of more as a studio concoction; Budd plays piano, while Guthrie's subtle touches of guitar, piano, keyboards and auxilliary instruments is radically treated with reverb and effects in the post-production stage. A pastiche of shimmering, tranquil soundscapes that gently insinuate themselves into the subconscious, Winter Garden may serve as the perfect antidote to urban frenzy.
With such evocative titles as "Don't Go Where I Can't Find You," "Losing My Breath," "Harmony and the Play of Light" and "South of Heaven," the music heard on Winter Garden can be considered a modern day extension of such early '80s ambient music classics as Brian Eno's Music for Airports and Budd's atmospheric collaborations with Eno on The Pavilon of Dreams, The Plateaux of Mirror and The Pearl. Only two pieces - the pulsating "Entangled" and "Stay With Me" - stray from the ambient nature of the project by incorporating beats and groove. Click
here to listen to those two tracks and see the tracklisting below.
Winter Garden Tracklist
1. Don't Go Where I Can't Find You
2. Losing My Breath
3. Winter Garden
4. Entangled
5. Harmony And The Play Of Light
6. Heavy Heart Some More
7. White Ceramic
8. Stay With Me
9. South Of Heaven
10. Dream On
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