after the night falls
Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie
Produced by Robin Guthrie
Track listing
- how distant your heart - 4:04
- avenue of shapes - 3:28
- seven thousand sunny years - 6:19
- she is my strength - 2:53
- inside, a golden echo - 3:25
- open book - 5:17
- and then I turned away - 3:31
- the girl with the colorful thoughts - 4:27
- turn off the sun - 4:59
Recorded Spring of 2006 at SF Soundworks, San Francisco, CA
Original release - 2007
after the night falls provides a quiet symmetry to before the day breaks. The albums were recorded together and released the same day, not as a double album but as two separate releases. Each of the nine songs share common or opposing elements, with an entwined poetic structure to their names. The pieces are not quite variations on a theme, in part because many of them eschew a melodic path completely.
In places, after the night falls is quieter and more structured than before the day breaks, but the overall differences are subtle.
The listener might to seek to discover which of these two albums should be listened to first, but as evidence perhaps by their covers, they are two halves on an endless cycle.