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Avalon Sutra / As Long as I Can Hold My Breath

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| name = Avalon Sutra / As Long As I Can Hold My Breath

| type = studio

| artist = Harold Budd

| cover = Avalon_Sutra.jpg

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| released = January 18, 2005

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| genre = Ambient

| length = 115:25

| label = Samadhi Sound

| producer = Harold Budd

| prev_title = Translucence/Drift Music

| prev_year = 2003

| next_title = Music for 'Fragments from the Inside'

| next_year = 2005

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Avalon Sutra / As Long As I Can Hold My Breath is a double album by Harold Budd. The first disc is titled Avalon Sutra, and the second, a remix from Akira Rabelais, is titled As Long as I Can Hold My Breath. At the time of its release in 2005, it was reported to be his final musical work.samadhisound.com [http://www.samadhisound.com/catalogue/ss004_harold_budd_avalon_sutra.html "Avalon Sutra" to be Harold Budd's last recorded work] However, both Music for 'Fragments from the Inside' and Mysterious Skin - Music from the Film, a collaboration with Robin Guthrie, were released a few months after this album. Further recordings were to follow with the last, "Another Flower" (with Robin Guthrie) recorded in 2013 but only released a few days before his death in December 2020.

Track listing

CD 1 Avalon Sutra

  1. "Arabesque 3" (Jon Gibson) – 2:40
  2. "It's Steeper near the Roses (For David Sylvian)" – 1:02
  3. "L'enfant Perdu" – 2:14
  4. "Chrysalis Nu (To Barney's Memory)" – 1:59
  5. "Three Faces West (Billy Al Bengston's)" – 2:49
  6. "Arabesque 2" (Jon Gibson) 3:02
  7. "Little Heart" – 7:40
  8. "How Vacantly You Stare at Me" (Jon Gibson) 4:01
  9. "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

CD 2 As Long As I Can Hold My Breath

  1. "As Long As I Can Hold My Breath (by Night)" – 69:28

Personnel

  • Harold Budd - string arrangements, mixing, keyboards
  • Marston Smith - cello (2, 3, 4, 5)
  • Peter Kent - violin (2, 3, 4, 5)
  • James Acevedo - viola (2,3,4,5)
  • Jon Gibson - soprano saxophone, bass flute (1,6,8,11)
  • Denis Blackham - mastering
  • Michael Coleman - mixing, mastering, recording (1, 14)
  • Yuka Fujii - artist Liaison
  • Shinya Fujiwara - photography
  • Scott Fraser - recording (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 11)
  • James Sitterly - violin (2, 3, 4, 5)
  • Akira Rabelais - composer, guitar (As Long As I Can Hold My Breath (by Night))
  • David Sylvian - art director
  • Chris Bigg - design

References

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Category:Harold Budd albums

Category:2005 albums

Category:Samadhi Sound albums

Category:Ambient albums by American artists

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