Harold Budd

According to his Wikipedia page, I have missed a few releases by Harold Budd, most notably two connected albums with Robin Guthrie (with whom he composed the excellent Mysterious Skin soundtrack) and an exclusively digital album recorded in memory of one of his former teachers. The page indicates:

# 2007 Perhaps (Samadhisound)
# 2007 After The Night Falls (with Robin Guthrie) Darla Records
# 2007 Before The Day Breaks (with Robin Guthrie) Darla Records

Harold Budd is one of my favourite ambient artists, along with Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Biosphere, and some work by David Sylvian on Gone to Earth (I already wrote about this album here). Tortoise probably fits in this list too.

If you would like to discover Harold Budd in a single album (his career spans over decades), his Music for 3 Pianos with Ruben Garcia and Daniel Lentz is exceptional—with rather sad overtones, don't expect Cuban rumba.