By the Dawn's Early Light
# By the Dawn's Early Light

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By the Dawn's Early Light is an album by composer Harold Budd. It was first released in 1991 by the Warner Bros. and WEA record labels, and subsequently re-released with new cover art in 2006 by All Saints Records. The album is typical of Budd's signature minimalist style, and features several short poems, each read by Budd himself.

## Track listing

* "Aztec Hotel (Poem)" – 1:33
* "Boy About 10" – 4:59
* "Arcadia" – 2:00
* "Dead Horse Alive with Flies" – 3:40
* "The Photo of Santiago McKinn" – 6:55
* "The Corpse at the Shooting Gallery" – 2:57
* "Albion Farewell" – 2:38
* "Distant Lights of Olancha Recede (Poem)" – 1:27
* "Down the Slopes to the Meadow" – 7:39
* "She Dances by the Light of the Silvery Moon" – 2:12
* "Blind Bird" – 2:03
* "Saint's Name Spoken" – 3:59
* "The Place of Dead Roads" – 4:50
* "A Child in a Sylvan Field" – 3:36
* "Boy About 10 (Poem)" – 1:18
* "Wings (Poem)" – 0:37
* "Advent (Poem)" – 0:49

### Additional track from release by Opal/Warner Bros Records

* "No Name (Poem)" – 0:55
