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Harold Budd

Los Angeles, United States • 1936-05-24 – 2020-12-08

Harold Budd is credited on 308 releases across 91 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1972–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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Biography

Harold Montgomory Budd (May 24, 1936 – December 8, 2020) was an American composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles and raised in the Mojave Desert, he became a respected composer in the minimal music and avant-garde scene of Southern California in the late 1960s, and later became better known for his work with figures such as Brian Eno and Robin Guthrie. Budd developed what he called a "soft pedal" technique for playing piano, with use of slow playing and prominent sustain.

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