The Pearl (album)

The Pearl
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 1984
StudioGrant Avenue Studio, Hamilton, Ontario
GenreAmbient
Length42:59
LabelEditions EG
Producer
Harold Budd chronology
Abandoned Cities
(1982)
The Pearl
(1984)
Lovely Thunder
(1986)
Brian Eno chronology
Music for Films Volume 2
(1983)
The Pearl
(1984)
Thursday Afternoon
(1985)
Harold Budd and Brian Eno chronology
Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
(1980)
The Pearl
(1984)

The Pearl is the second collaborative studio album by Harold Budd and Brian Eno, released in August 1984 by Editions EG and produced by Eno and Daniel Lanois in Hamilton, Ontario. The Pearl is similar to Budd and Eno's previous collaboration, Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (1980), consisting mostly of subtly treated piano textures, but with more pronounced electronic treatments and nature recordings. The album has been well received by music critics, and is considered by some as a landmark work in ambient music.