Music CD - Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd: Before The Day Breaks

	Music CD: Before The Day Breaks Artist: Robin Guthrie, Harold Budd List Price: $15.98 Our Price: $8.61 Your Save: $ 7.37 ( 46% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Darla
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Tracks: 1. How Close Your Soul 2. Formless Path 3. Minute, A Day, No More 4. She Is My Weakness 5. Outside, Silence 6. Hidden Message 7. I Returned Her Glance 8. My Monochrome Vision 9. Turn on the Moon
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0708527018323 Label: Darla Manufacturer: Darla Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Darla Release Date: 2007-07-16 Studio: Darla
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Chill And Wash Comment: The Collaboration continues. This second installment of the binary 2007 release from Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie brings more sonic landscaping and oceanic tumult from the two arguably best figures of the genre. More sharply focused and signatory than their "After The Night Falls", this album delivers that evocative Harold Budd mysticism and Robin Guthrie's guitar washes in full effect. Fans of Marconi Union and O Yuki Conjugate must have this; fans of both Messrs. Budd and Guthrie should already have this. Customer Rating: Summary: Perfect Ambient music you will indulge in Comment: I barely became aware of the release of this album in early 2008 (it came out in mid-2007). Yet, since I found out about it, it's become a fixture in my iTunes playlist. The ethereal sound of Harold Budd (one of the early creators of Ambient music along with Brian Eno) blends in impeccably with the guitar work of Robin Guthrie (of Cocteau Twins fame) to yield an album that you will indulge in time and again. Along with the companion After The Night Falls, this is an album you will find yourself listening in times of trouble and in times of joy equally, non-intrusive music that you can work to and write to as much as you can mellow to. Customer Rating: Summary: Poetry and Melodies Comment: I got this cd and "after the night fall" just 10days before the official release from Darla records and then take it with me on ipod nano to my travel in Egypt. Cant describe being 10days on a boat from Cairo to Aswan listening these two album on the Nile. Is very different from "mysterious skin" and "moon&melodies". Honestly, Mysteious skin has much more melodic and nice tracks, these dual album concept is very original but harded to listen in some parts. But worth to buy it. Hope Robin and Budd will do othere cds like this Customer Rating: Summary: East of Midnight with Budd & Guthrie Comment: Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie, a pair of legendary names in the ambient music world, created a two-album theme of music and emotions with Before The Day Breaks and After The Night Falls. Creating a kind of minimalist sound with these albums, the pair have created relaxing ambient music demonstrating that sometimes less is more, and better. Both are excellent for unwinding after work, for quiet times and perhaps even catching your breath at work. This is a definite recommendation for those who want their music a little calmer & quieter. Customer Rating: Summary: Harold Budd's Before the Day Breaks Comment: Having heard his work with Brian Eno, which was superlative, this was disappointing & often mundane. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: It's been more than 20 years since pianist Harold Budd's first full collaboration with guitarist Robin Guthrie's former group, the Cocteau Twins, on The Moon and the Melodies. Primed by their atmospheric collaboration on the score to Mysterious Skin, they pick up where they left off, sans the voice of Elizabeth Fraser, on a pair of matched CDs, After the Night Falls and Before the Day Breaks. Guthrie lays down his signature deep-echo guitar arpeggios and shimmering electric glissandos while Budd drops piano notes, each placed with the elegance and thought of a Zen garden. The latter, whose 2005 retirement appears to have been greatly exaggerated, has lately been stripping away the electronics and making an introspective solo piano music, often born from melodic fragments and languid improvisations. It's nice to hear them framed by Guthrie in an electric gossamer where melodies flutter like tattered cobwebs in the echoing wind. So it's not surprising that some tracks have a tendency to vaporize. Songs with a bit of grounding like "Seven Thousand Sunny Years," with its spare rhythm track and refracting guitars, tend to hold up a little better, while "My Monochrome Vision" just wanders into the drone zone. Of the two albums, After the Night Falls is more structured and formed, although Budd and Guthrie do wait until the last track of Before the Day Breaks to unleash a welcome slice of contrasting aggression with "Turn on the Moon." Totaling 81 minutes between them, I'm not sure why the albums couldn't have been condensed into a single disc, making a tighter, less diffuse statement. Yet both have more than enough moments of sublime melancholy and deep ruminations to provide a soundtrack for that long lonesome film in your mind. --John Diliberto