Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra.nfo
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Album: Avalon Sutra
Artist: Harold Budd
Year: 2004
Genre: New Age / Ambient
DESCRIPTION
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Whatever the delights of his back catalogue, to my ears Avalon Sutra is possibly Budd's most consistently ravishing work. It owes a lot to the largely acoustic textures of The Pavilion of Dreams, his 1978 debut for Eno's Obscure label. Influenced equally by the more meditative moments of Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders as well as minimalist Cage piano works like In a Landscape, it mapped out an area that he's not often returned to since.
Augmented by the woodwinds of Phillip Glass collaborator Jon Gibson and the occasional appearance of a string quartet, the composer's piano offers gentle, rippling arpeggios and skeletal, yearning melodies characterised as much by the space between the notes as the notes themselves. The four duets with Gibson are tiny gems; melancholic but never maudlin.
The pieces with string quartet makes me wish Budd had done more in this vein, or that maybe he'd stick around and do some more. For the remainder of the record the piano is left alone, sometimes with the haze of distant electronic textures. Nothing outstays its welcome; nothing is out of place. - Peter Marsh 2004
FILE INFORMATION
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Number of Tracks: 14
Total Duration: Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3
Total Size: 197 MBs
Parity Archive: Yes, 7%
Ripped By: Griffin
Files Created on: 4 Feb. 2014
Ripped With: Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3
Encoded At: lossless, FLAC / 44.1 KHz
ID3 Tags: FLAC
NFO Created: 4 Feb. 2014
TRACKS
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01. "Arabesque 3" (Jon Gibson) - 2:40
02. "It's Steeper near the Roses (For David Sylvian)" - 1:02
03. "L'enfant Perdu" - 2:14
04. "Chrysalis Nu (To Barney's Memory)" - 1:59
05. "Three Faces West (Billy Al Bengston's)" - 2:49
06. "Arabesque 2" (Jon Gibson) 3:02
07. "Little Heart" - 7:40
08. "How Vacantly You Stare at Me" (Jon Gibson) 4:01
09. "A Walk in the Park with Nancy (In Memory)" - 5:55
10. "Rue Casimir Delavigne (For Daniel Lentz)" - 5:28
11. "Arabesque 1" (Jon Gibson) 1:56
12. "Porcelain Ginger" - 2:01
13. "Faraon" - 1:23
14. "As Long as I Can Hold My Breath" - 3:57
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