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The White Arcades is an album performed by Harold Budd

Harold Budd

Harold Budd is an American ambient/avant-garde composer and poet. Born in Los Angeles, he was raised in the Mojave Desert, and was inspired at an early age by the humming tone caused by wind blown across telephone wires....

. The album was recorded at various locations, including the Palladium in Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...

and the Cocteau Twins

Cocteau Twins

Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative rock band active from 1979 to 1997, known for innovative instrumentation and atmospheric, non-lyrical vocals...

Studio in London, and individual tracks were engineered by the Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie

Robin Guthrie

Robin Guthrie is a musician best known as co-founder of the Cocteau Twins. During his career Guthrie has played guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums and other musical instruments, in addition to programming, sampling and sound processing...

and by Brian Eno

Brian Eno

Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...

, the latter also adding his characteristic treatments to those tracks.

Track listing

"The White Arcades" – 4:44
"Balthus Bemused by Color" – 5:16
"The Child with a Lion" – 6:38
"The Real Dream of Sails" – 6:08
"Algebra of Darkness" – 6:32
"Totems of the Red-Sleeved Warrior" – 3:23
"The Room" – 3:07
"Coyote" – 2:45
"The Kiss" – 3:17

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