Tracklist
| The Serpent (In Quicksilver) | |||
| 1-1 | –Harold Budd | Afar | 2:29 |
| 1-2 | –Harold Budd | Wanderer | 4:12 |
| 1-3 | –Harold Budd | Rub With Ashes | 1:54 |
| 1-4 | –Harold Budd | Children On The Hill | 5:12 |
| 1-5 | –Harold Budd | Widows Charm | 1:57 |
| 1-6 | –Harold Budd | The Serpent (In Quicksilver) | 4:01 |
| Abandoned Cities | |||
| 2-1 | –Harold Budd | Dark Star | 19:45 |
| 2-2 | –Harold Budd | Abandoned Cities | 23:00 |
| The White Arcades | |||
| 3-1 | –Harold Budd | The White Arcades | 4:38 |
| 3-2 | –Harold Budd | Balthus Bemused By Color | 5:12 |
| 3-3 | –Harold Budd | The Child With A Lion | 6:35 |
| 3-4 | –Harold Budd | The Real Dream Of Sails | 6:02 |
| 3-5 | –Harold Budd | Algebra Of Darkness | 6:28 |
| 3-6 | –Harold Budd | Totems Of The Red-Sleeved Warrior | 3:20 |
| 3-7 | –Harold Budd | The Room | 3:03 |
| 3-8 | –Harold Budd | Coyote | 2:04 |
| 3-9 | –Harold Budd | The Kiss | 3:21 |
| By The Dawn's Early Light | |||
| 4-1 | –Harold Budd | Poem: Aztec Hotel | 1:33 |
| 4-2 | –Harold Budd | Boy About 10 | 4:59 |
| 4-3 | –Harold Budd | Arcadia | 2:00 |
| 4-4 | –Harold Budd | Dead Horse Alive With Flies | 3:40 |
| 4-5 | –Harold Budd | The Photo Of Santiago McKinn | 6:55 |
| 4-6 | –Harold Budd | The Corpse At The Shooting Gallery | 2:57 |
| 4-7 | –Harold Budd | Albion Farewell (Homage To Delius, For Gavin Bryars) | 2:38 |
| 4-8 | –Harold Budd | Poem: Distant Lights Of Olancha Recede | 1:27 |
| 4-9 | –Harold Budd | Down The Slopes To The Meadow (For Ruben Garcia) | 7:39 |
| 4-10 | –Harold Budd | She Dances By The Light Of The Silvery Moon | 2:03 |
| 4-11 | –Harold Budd | Blind Bird | 2:12 |
| 4-12 | –Harold Budd | Saint's Name Spoken | 3:59 |
| 4-13 | –Harold Budd | The Place Of Dead Roads | 4:49 |
| 4-14 | –Harold Budd | A Child In A Sylvan Field | 3:36 |
| 4-15 | –Harold Budd | Poem: Boy About 10 | 1:18 |
| 4-16 | –Harold Budd | Poem: Wings | 0:37 |
| 4-17 | –Harold Budd | Poem: No Name | 0:55 |
| 4-18 | –Harold Budd | Poem: Advent | 0:49 |
| Music For 3 Pianos | |||
| 5-1 | –Harold Budd, Ruben Garcia, Daniel Lentz | Pulse Pause Repeat | 4:15 |
| 5-2 | –Harold Budd, Ruben Garcia, Daniel Lentz | La Muchacha De Los Sueños Dorados | 4:38 |
| 5-3 | –Harold Budd, Ruben Garcia, Daniel Lentz | Iris | 2:37 |
| 5-4 | –Harold Budd, Ruben Garcia, Daniel Lentz | Somos Tres | 2:33 |
| 5-5 | –Harold Budd, Ruben Garcia, Daniel Lentz | The Messenger | 3:06 |
| 5-6 | –Harold Budd, Ruben Garcia, Daniel Lentz | La Casa Bruja | 4:38 |
| Through The Hill | |||
| Prelude | |||
| 6-1 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Hand 19 | 1:20 |
| Geography | |||
| 6-2 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Through The Hill | 4:05 |
| 6-3 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Great Valley Of Gongs | 3:06 |
| 6-4 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Western Island Of Apples | 3:03 |
| 6-5 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Anima Mundi | 4:44 |
| Interlude | |||
| 6-6 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Hand 20 | 3:00 |
| Structures | |||
| 6-7 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | The Place Of Odd Glances | 3:17 |
| 6-8 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Well For The Sweat Of The Moon | 3:24 |
| 6-9 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Tenochtitlan's Numberless Bridges | 3:55 |
| 6-10 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Ceramic Avenue | 5:17 |
| Interlude | |||
| 6-11 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Hand 21 | 1:53 |
| Artifacts | |||
| 6-12 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Missing Pieces To The Game Of Salt And Onyx | 5:59 |
| 6-13 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Mantle Of Peacock Bones | 2:07 |
| 6-14 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Bronze Coins Showing Genitals | 4:18 |
| 6-15 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Bearded Aphrodite | 2:34 |
| Postlude | |||
| 6-16 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Hand 22 | 2:23 |
| Additional Artifacts | |||
| 6-17 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Bosch | 1:49 |
| 6-18 | –Andy Partridge, Harold Budd | Breugel | 2:54 |
| Luxa | |||
| Butterflies With Tits | |||
| 7-1 | –Harold Budd | Niki D. | 6:33 |
| 7-2 | –Harold Budd | A Sidelong Glance From My Round Nefertiti | 3:12 |
| 7-3 | –Harold Budd | Agnes Martin | 3:47 |
| 7-4 | –Harold Budd | Anish Kapoor | 2:55 |
| 7-5 | –Harold Budd | Paul McCarthy | 7:07 |
| 7-6 | –Harold Budd | Serge Poliakoff | 3:03 |
| Inexact Shadows | |||
| 7-7 | –Harold Budd | Djinn | 0:49 |
| 7-8 | –Harold Budd | Porphyry | 0:45 |
| 7-9 | –Harold Budd | How Dark The Response To Our Slipping Away | 0:42 |
| Smoke Trees | |||
| 7-10 | –Harold Budd | Nove Alberi | 5:56 |
| 7-11 | –Harold Budd | Chet | 7:09 |
| 7-12 | –Harold Budd | Mandan | 3:55 |
| 7-13 | –Harold Budd | Feral | 4:07 |
| 7-14 | –Harold Budd | Grace | 5:14 |
| Laughing Innuendos | |||
| 7-15 | –Harold Budd | Marion Brown (Sweet Earth Flying) | 2:46 |
| 7-16 | –Harold Budd | Steven Brown (Pleasure) | 3:56 |
Companies, etc.
- Phonographic Copyright (p) – All Saints Records
- Copyright (c) – All Saints Records
- Manufactured By – www.thinktankmedia.co.uk
Credits
- Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – Bill Nelson (tracks: 4-1 to 4-14)
- Bass – Eugene Bowen (tracks: 1-6)
- Composed By – Lentz* (tracks: 5-1 to 5-6), Budd* (tracks: 5-1 to 5-6), Garcia* (tracks: 5-1 to 5-6)
- Cover [Polaroid CD7] – Harold Budd
- Design [Original Design CD5] – Bruce Licher
- Edited By, Mixed By, Producer – Harold Budd (tracks: 5-1 to 5-6), Michael Hoenig (tracks: 5-1 to 5-6)
- Electric Piano [Fender Rhodes] – Harold Budd (tracks: 1-2, 1-5)
- Engineer – Eugene Bowen (tracks: 2-1, 2-2), Keith Mitchell (tracks: 3-1, 3-6, 3-8, 3-9), Lincoln Fong (tracks: 3-7), Robin Guthrie (tracks: 3-2, 3-4)
- Engineer [Additional Treatments And Engineering] – Brian Eno (tracks: 3-4, 3-6)
- Engineer, Mixed By – Barry Hammond (tracks: 6-1 to 6-18)
- Harp – Susan Allen (tracks: 4-1 to 4-14)
- Instruments [All Instruments] – Andy Partridge (tracks: 6-1 to 6-18), Harold Budd (tracks: 6-1 to 6-18)
- Liner Notes [From 1989 Reissue On Opal/Land Records CD1, CD2] – Harold Budd
- Liner Notes [From The Wire June 1994 CD6] – David Toop
- Liner Notes [Sound On Sound, January 1997] – Paul Tingen
- Mastered By – Jack Adams (tracks: 3-1 to 3-9)
- Organ [Hammond B3] – Harold Budd (tracks: 4-1 to 4-14)
- Organ [Hammond Organ] – Harold Budd (tracks: 1-6)
- Pedal Steel Guitar – B.J. Cole* (tracks: 4-1 to 4-14), Chas Smith (tracks: 1-1)
- Performer – Harold Budd (tracks: 3-1 to 3-9, 7-1 to 7-16)
- Photography By [Front Cover CD1] – Terrence Budd
- Photography By [Front Cover CD2] – Matthew Budd
- Photography By [Original Front Cover Photography CD4] – Harold Budd
- Photography By [Original Sleeve Photograph CD3] – David Buckland
- Piano – Harold Budd (tracks: 1-1, 1-2, 1-4, 4-1 to 4-18)
- Piano [Bösendorfer] – Harold Budd (tracks: 1-3, 1-6)
- Producer – Harold Budd
- Recorded By – Michael Hoenig (tracks: 5-1 to 5-6)
- Sleeve [Original Sleeve Design CD1, CD2] – Paula Bethsebe
- Sleeve [Original Sleeve Design CD3] – Dave Coppenhall, Russell Mills
- Sleeve [Original Sleeve Design CD4] – Tom Recchion
- Sleeve [Original Sleeve Design CD7] – David Coppenhall*
- Sleeve [Original Sleeve Designs CD6] – The Culture , Wordsalad
- Sleeve Notes [2005 Reissue CD6] – Mark Prendergast
- Synthesizer – Harold Budd (tracks: 4-1 to 4-14)
- Synthesizer [Prophet 5] – Harold Budd (tracks: 1-2)
- Viola – Mabel Wong (tracks: 4-1 to 4-14)
- Vocals [Vocal] – Harold Budd (tracks: 4-1 to 4-18)
- Written-By – Andy Partridge (tracks: 6-1 to 6-18), Bill Nelson (tracks: 4-13), Brian Eno (tracks: 3-6), Chas Smith (tracks: 1-1), Harold Budd
Notes
Packaged in a cardboard box, each CD in a cardboard sleeve reproducing original front covers, with a 76-page booklet including liner notes, interviews, poems and credits.This Compilation ℗ and © 2013 All Saints Records.
CD1:
Originally released on Cantil Records as Cantil 181 in 1981
℗ 1981 All Saints Records © 2013 All Saints Records
Published by Toyon Music, administered by Universal Music Publishing.
Recorded 1980-1981 at Poiema, Concorde, Music Grinder and Speakeasy.
CD2:
Originally released on Cantil Records as Cantil 384 in 1984
℗ 1984 All Saints Records © 2013 All Saints Records
Published by Toyon Music, administered by Universal Music Publishing
Recorded and mixed at The Old Rugged Cross and Poiema Studios
CD3:
Originally released on Opal Records 1988 as Opal 925 766-1
℗ 1988 All Saints Records © 2013 All Saints Records
Published by Toyon Music, administered by Universal Music Publishing, except 3-6 published by Toyon Music and Opal Ltd., London (PRS), except in N. America and Canada by Upala Music Inc. (BMI).
Recorded June-December 1987 at Palladium Edinburgh (3-1, 3-6, 3-8 & 3-9), The Cocteau Twins Studio London (3-2, 3-4 & 3-7), additional treatments and engineering on 3-4 & 3-6 at The Wilderness, Suffolk. Mastered at Tape 1, London.
CD4:
Originally released in 1991 on Opal Records as Opal 9 26649-2
℗ 1991 All Saints Records © 2013 All Saints Records
4-9 listed as "Down The Slopes To The Meadow"
Published by Toyon Music, administered by Universal Music Publishing
Recorded and mixed at Kingsway USA Recording Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana from March 15 - April 4, 1991. Mastered at Precision Mastering, Los Angeles, California.
CD5:
Originally released 1992 on All Saints Records as ASCD14
℗ 1992 All Saints Records © 2013 All Saints Records
Published by Toyon Music, (administered by Universal Music Publishing), Copyright Control and Metisse Music.
Recorded at Metamusic Productions in Los Angeles March 2, 1992
CD mastering at LRS, Burbank, designed at Independent Project Press
CD6:
Originally released on All Saints Records 1994 as ASCD021
℗ 1994 All Saints Records © 2013 All Saints Records
6-12 listed as "Missing Pieces Of The Game Of Salt And Onyx"
6-13 listed as "Mantles Of Peacock Bones"
Published by Virgin Music and Toyon Music.
Recorded and mixed at Chipping Norton Studios, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, February 1994. Mastered at Chop 'Em Out, London.
Poems by Andy Partridge, read by Harold Budd. Original sleeve designs based on ideas by Andy Partridge and Harold Budd.
CD7:
Originally released in 1996 on All Saints Records as ASCD030
℗ 1996 All Saints Records © 2013 All Saints Records
Published by Toyon Music, administered by Universal Music Publishing, except 7-15 (NIA Music, ASCAP) and 7-16 by Steven Brown and Blaine L. Reininger.
Recorded and mixed at Orangewood Studio in Mesa, Arizona, from June 3 to June 14, 1996.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 0 801061 104122
- Barcode (String): 0801061104122
- Matrix / Runout (CD1): 2100004553217 www.thinktankmedia.co.uk
- Mastering SID Code (CD1): IFPI LK97
- Mould SID Code (CD1): IFPI UU079
- Matrix / Runout (CD2): 2100004553255 www.thinktankmedia.co.uk
- Mastering SID Code (CD2): IFPI LK97
- Mould SID Code (CD2): IFPI 9R76
- Matrix / Runout (CD3): 2100004553293 www.thinktankmedia.co.uk
- Mastering SID Code (CD3): IFPI LK97
- Mould SID Code (CD3): IFPI 9R78
- Matrix / Runout (CD4): 2100004553330 www.thinktankmedia.co.uk
- Mastering SID Code (CD4): IFPI LK97
- Mould SID Code (CD4): IFPI 9R78
- Matrix / Runout (CD5): 2100004553378 www.thinktankmedia.co.uk
- Mastering SID Code (CD5): IFPI LK97
- Mould SID Code (CD5): IFPI UU015
- Matrix / Runout (CD6): 2100004553415 www.thinktankmedia.co.uk
- Mastering SID Code (CD6): IFPI LK97
- Mould SID Code (CD6): IFPI 9R76
- Matrix / Runout (CD7): 2100004553453 www.thinktankmedia.co.uk
- Mastering SID Code (CD7): IFPI LK97
- Mould SID Code (CD7): IFPI 9R106
- Label Code: LC 02070
Other versions
| Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WASTBOX1X | Harold Budd | Budd Box (CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + CD) | All Saints | WASTBOX1X | UK, Europe & US | 2018 |
