Harold Budd, By the Dawn's Early Light - 54m 18s

Tracks & Durations

1. Aztec Hotel [poem]	1:33
2. Boy About Ten	4:59
3. Arcadia	2:00
4. Dead Horse Alive With Flies	3:40
5. The Photo Of Santiago McKinn	6:55
6. The Corpse At The Shooting Gallery	2:57
7. Albion Farewell	2:38
8. Distant Lights Of Alancha Recede [poem]	1:27
9. Down The Slopes To The Meadow	7:39
10. She Dances By The Light Of The Silvery Moon	2:12
11. Blind Bird	2:03
12. Saint's Name Spoken	3:59
13. The Place Of Dead Roads (with Bill Nelson)	4:49
14. A Child In A Sylvan Field	3:36
15. Boy About Ten [poem]	1:18
16. Wings [poem]	0:37
17. No Name [poem]	0:55
18. Advent [poem]	0:49

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Review

Always an outlier, Harold Budd enjoys confounding conventional wisdom about ambient music, new age, what have you. Hence his decision in the early '90s to record an album, for Brian Eno's Opal label, devoted to the American landscape--an album of often vaporous melodies intent on figuring the land's geography and history. Budd's a self-admitted devotee of soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone, and his titles alone help conjure the mythical west ("Distant Lights of Olancha Recede," "Place of Dead Roads"), as well as its odd, modern developments ("Aztec Hotel"). Occasional spoken material, a kind of existential cowboy poetry read by Budd, benefits from guitarist Bill Nelson and pedal-steel player B. J. Cole, not to mention viola, harp, and the composer's own array of keyboards. --Marc Weidenbaum

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By the Dawn's Early Light

Tracks: 18, Disk length: 54m 18s

By the Dawn's Early Light

Tracks: 18, Disk length: 54m 17s (-1m 59s)

By the Dawn's Early Light

Tracks: 18, Disk length: 53m 21s (-1m 3s)

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