In the 80s there were people making beautiful chill out lounge music. This was before Ibiza, Café del Mar and Buddha Bar, and they called it “ambient”. Harold Budd, ambient luminary, is an American neo-classical composer that creates sparse, haunting, mostly piano-driven compositions that captured the attention of the indie rock underground over 20 years ago. On the 4AD label he collaborated with the Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie on the album ‘Moon and the Melodies’. Cocteau Twins have Elizabeth Fraser’s angelic, consciously inarticulate vocals combined with Guthrie’s impressionist swabs of guitar. Now these two phenomenal artists collaborate again to do the soundtrack for this disturbing but beautiful film. Although lots of mesmerizing music from the 4AD label plays in the movie, the soundtrack itself only features Budd and Guthrie. This is intelligent music that you can listen to at bedtime after a long day, or at breakfast on your day off. If you enjoy this, I can highly recommend the Cocteaus’ Victorialand (recorded when the drummer was away, which made it dreamy and ambient) and also Budd’s current collaboration with Eraldo Bernocchi, Fragments From The Inside.
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