Artist: The Formalist Quartet

Title: Bandits of Stature

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2012

Label: Darla Records

UPC: 708527026229

Genre: Classical Composers

Album Tracks

1. The Dream of the Girl at the Lonely Desert Cafe
2. Claude Lorrain Avoids the Cinder Block Motel
3. Nicolas Poussin Near 29 Palms
4. Perfume Doesn't Dance
5. Shout (For Jane Maru)
6. The Moss of Imagination
7. Puvis Startled By Joy
8. Seven Colonnades
9. Veil of Orpheus (Cy Twombly's)
10. Haru Spring
11. From the Sea of Changes
12. Bandits of Stature
13. Llano
14. Babylon Balboa

Harold Budd is a one-of-a-kind, modern neo-classical artist with a career spanning 40 years. Bandits of Stature has the characteristic Budd minimalism one may expect, yet in new, or classical, form. On Bandits of Stature, he has created 14 elegantly simple, avant-garde string quartets, each with his own unique and subtle tension and abstraction and sometimes-pastoral but as-often otherworldly mood shining through. This is also Budd's most melancholic work ever. It is a work that can only come from an artist with such unique vision and maturity as he. Whether deep dark or bright light, the listener is as always transcended to an enlightened state within the balance of empty space and substance, presented at times with wistful nostalgia, often with great idealism and persistently with love and beauty.