Released: 2007
Style: Ambient, Instrumental
"A companion piece to 'Before the Day Breaks', 'After the Night Falls' is a gorgeous soundtrack to the twilight hours by two of the most gifted producers of blissed-out music the world has ever known. The last we had heard from Harold Budd was that "Avalon Sutra" was going to be his final album and that he was ready for retirement, but in a typically obtuse fashion we now suddenly find ourselves with two brand new albums from the great man released on the same day. It doesn't stop here either, the now 70 year-old musician roped in his friend Robin Guthrie to lend some effected guitar to the proceedings, and the results are predictably sublime. It's hard to speak about this album without referencing 'Before the Day Breaks', but I must say that the darker focus evident here imbues proceedings with a much welcome aural fog. Maybe I'm just more interested in post-sunlight albums, but there's a haziness to 'After the Night Falls' which is perfectly in tune with that very specific time of day - it's not midnight, it's not pitch black, but night has drawn in. Musically this is the perfect marriage of the sound of two consummate professionals - Budd's piano echoing over Guthrie's signature reverberating guitar sound. The pieces here are almost mirror images of those on the companion album, even down to the track titles, for instance the opening track is named 'How Distant Your Heart' in response to the opening track of 'Before the Day Breaks' which is named 'How Close Your Soul'. This in my opinion makes both discs totally indispensable, it is almost impossible to simply buy one and be done with it - to hear one dictates that you need to hear the other. Basically fans of midnight ambient music, shoegaze or the solo piano perfected by Budd should buy this without delay, it's frankly unmissable." - Boomkat
Tracklisting:
1 How Distant Your Heart (4:03)
2 Avenue Of Shapes (3:27)
3 Seven Thousand Sunny Years (6:19)
4 She Is My Strength (2:52)
5 Inside, A Golden Echo (3:24)
6 Open Book (5:17)
7 And Then I Turned Away (3:30)
8 The Girl With Colorful Thoughts (4:26)
9 Turn Off The Sun (4:58)
No comments:
Post a Comment