Harold Budd, the acclaimed composer known for his minimalist works and collaborations with Brian Eno, died Tuesday. He was 84. Steve Takaki, Budd’s manager, confirmed his death, adding that the cause of death was complications due to the coronavirus. “A lot to digest,” Cocteau Twins frontman and frequent Budd collaborator …
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Two of music’s most adventurous producers — Brian Eno and Lee “Scratch” Perry — collide on “Here Come the Warm Dreads,” a new track off the dub legend’s upcoming LP Heavy Rain. In the five-minute near-instrumental — a play on Eno’s own 1974 LP Here Come the Warm Jets — …
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Brian Eno strongly believes he saw the flight path overhead of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first human to travelinto space, when he was 12. “I was very excited by it,” he recalls now. But within a few years he lost his interest in space travel. By the time Neil Armstrong …
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