Harold Budd, Simon Raymonde, Robin Guthrie, Elizabeth Fraser: The Moon and the Melodies

This might have been among the first ten CDs I bought, in 1986. I remember reading an interview with Robin Guthrie around that time where he claimed that Harold Budd had initially wanted to collaborate very much on his own terms, but when Guthrie and partners declined, he went away and then later let it be known that "if they ever wanted a piano player, he was available" or something like that. I'd like to hear Budd's version of the story.

This never became a favourite album of mine. The track sequencing — two 'sides' that both run vocal-instrumental-instrumental-vocal — somehow doesn't work (and no, I don't have any better suggestions). But when The Ghost Has No Home pops out of Last.fm at me, it always sounds rather wonderful. So it's possibly one of those albums that sounds better as a bunch of individual tracks than as a continuous whole.

MusicBrainz entry for this album