Harold Budd - By the Dawn's Early Light
Artist: Harold Budd
Trackliste:
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
| 1 | |
Poem: Aztec Hotel | 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 (Homage To Delius, For Gavin Bryars) | 2:38 | |
| 8 | |
Poem: Distant Lights Of Olancha Recede | 1:27 | |
| 9 | |
Down The Slopes To The Meadow (For Ruben Garcia) | 7:39 | |
| 10 | |
She Dances By The Light Of The Silvery Moon | 2:03 | |
| 11 | |
Blind Bird | 2:12 | |
| 12 | |
Saint's Name Spoken | 3:59 | |
| 13 | |
The Place Of Dead Roads | 4:49 | |
| 14 | |
A Child In A Sylvan Field | 3:36 | |
| 15 | |
Boy About 10 | 1:18 | |
| 16 | |
Wings | 0:37 | |
| 17 | |
No Name | 0:55 | |
| 18 | |
Advent | 0:49 |
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