Dawn is the follow-up to Ola Gjeilo's 2020 piano album Night, which was inspired by the twilight hours in New York, his adopted hometown, and has amassed over 50 million streams to date. Released in 2022, the sequel put to paper in this book was inspired by the peaceful light and stillness at dawn in Oregon and California. Ola is an exclusive Decca Classics artist, and in addition to Night and Dawn his Decca projects include the choral albums Ola Gjeilo (2016) and Winter Songs (2017).