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Harold Budd (born 1936) is an avant-garde Californian American composer who incorporates music from a variety of genres, such as jazz and electronic music into his work. In 'The Moon and the Melodies'  he worked with the younger, Scottish group, The Cocteau Twins, (about 19821997) whose genre was Dream Pop.","physicalDescription":"Cardboard cover sleeve for the 12\" long-playing record '<i>The Moon and the Melodies</i>' recorded by Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie and Simon Raymonde. The cover features a somewhat abstract greyscale photographic image of a woven object, possibly the bottom of a basket, with a circular pattern. 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