By the Dawn’s Early Light

Album by Harold Budd

By the Dawn’s Early Light is a Harold Budd album that merges ambient and minimalist chamber compositions with spoken-word poetry. It features piano-led pieces alongside sparse ensemble arrangements.
First released: August 1991

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Poem: Aztec Hotel
    1:33
  2. 2.
    Boy About 10
    4:59
  3. 3.
    Arcadia
    2:00
  4. 4.
    Dead Horse Alive With Flies
    3:40
  5. 5.
    The Photo of Santiago McKinn
    6:55
  6. 6.
    The Corpse at the Shooting Gallery
    2:57
  7. 7.
    Albion Farewell (Homage to Delius, for Gavin Bryars)
    2:38
  8. 8.
    Poem: Distant Lights of Olancha Recede
    1:27
  9. 9.
    Down the Slopes to the Meadow (For Ruben Garcia)
    7:39
  10. 10.
    She Dances by the Light of the Silvery Moon
    2:12
  11. 11.
    Blind Bird
    2:03
  12. 12.
    Saint's Name Spoken
    3:59
  13. 13.
    The Place of Dead Roads
    4:49
  14. 14.
    A Child in a Sylvan Field
    3:36
  15. 15.
    Poem: Boy About 10
    1:18
  16. 16.
    Poem: Wings
    0:37
  17. 17.
    Poem: No Name
    0:55
  18. 18.
    Poem: Advent
    0:49

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