Avalon Sutra / As Long as I Can Hold My Breath

Infobox Album
Name = Avalon Sutra / As Long as I Can Hold My Breath
Type = Double album
Artist = Harold Budd


Released = 2005-01-18
Recorded =
Genre = Ambient
Length = 115:25
Label = Samadhi Sound
Producer =
Reviews = * Stylus [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/harold-budd/avalon-sutra.htm link]
Last album = "Translucence / Drift Music"
(2003)
This album = "Avalon Sutra / As Long as I Can Hold My Breath"
(2005)
Next album = "Music For 'Fragments from the Inside'"
(2005)

"Avalon Sutra / As Long as I Can Hold My Breath" is a double album by Harold Budd which, at the time of it's release in 2005, 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' [amazon.com [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00081U6VO "Music for 'Fragments From The Inside'"] ] and Mysterious Skin - Music from the Film, a collaboration with Robin Guthrie, [amazon.com [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009HLC0G "Mysterious Skin" soundtrack] ] were released a few months after this album. The first disc is titled "Avalon Sutra", and the second is titled "As Long as I Can Hold My Breath".

Track listing

# "Arabesque 3" – 2:40
# "It's Steeper near the Roses (For David Sylvian)" – 1:02
# "L'enfant Perdu" – 2:14
# "Chrysalis Nu (To Barney's Memory)" – 1:59
# "Three Faces West (Billy Al Bengston's)" – 2:49
# "Arabesque 2" – 3:02
# "Little Heart" – 7:40
# "How Vacantly You Stare at Me" – 4:01
# "A Walk in the Park with Nancy (In Memory)" – 5:55
# "Rue Casimir Delavigne (For Daniel Lentz)" – 5:28
# "Arabesque 1" – 1:56
# "Porcelain Ginger" – 2:01
# "Faraon" – 1:23
# "As Long as I Can Hold My Breath" – 3:57

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

References

* Track titles and times taken from the disc itself, but the titles can be verified through the [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006624AW Amazon.com product page] .