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Ryan Teague - Six Preludes
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Year :: 2005
Label :: Type Records
Cat No :: TVEP002
Genre :: Electronic
Tracks :: 06
Size :: 39,9 MB
Source :: CDDA
Bitrate :: VBRKBps
Rel. Date :: 10/05/2005
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Residing in Cambridge, UK Ryan Teague has grown up
with classical music. Learning classical guitar from
an early age, and also becoming proficient in
clarinet and a number of other obscure instruments,
it was not long before Teague tried his hand at
composing. However the trappings of standard
classical composition were not of any interest to
him, and he had already discovered the wide world of
electronic music and experimental rock. Taking hold
of Arvo Part with one hand and Biosphere with the
other, Teague has gone on to create a record that
crosses boundaries without ever resorting to genre
stereotypes. He has managed to forge a record which
sounds both timeless and startlingly fresh.
The opening track 'Prelude I' begins with strings
enswathed in digital noise and drifting bells, before
a haunting choral vocal is introduced into the mix.
Bringing together the operatic with electronics in
such a way has almost never been achieved
successfully, yet Teague manages effortly to blend
the genres and emerge with something beautiful and
uncluttered. It at once becomes cinematic but never
resorts to being over sentimental. As the strings
crash and percussion drives our emotion, never once
does it feel tiresome and it always keeps the
imagination active. On the final track 'Prelude VI'
it is hard not to bring to mind the finer works of
Cliff Martinez as bass bubbles underneath an echoing
piano and electronic distortions: a stunning
widescreen finale to this captivating story.
It would be right to compare 'Six Preludes' to the
work of Steve Reich or John Adams, as there are
clearly similarities, yet Teague takes his sound to
another place entirely. Sitting more closely with the
more contemporary ECM catalogue and with artists such
as Arve Henriksen or Marsen Jules, this is a marriage
of classical and electronic rather than a mere
experiment. Ryan Teague has begun a deep excavation
into an exciting sound, and it is our hope that he
continues to do so.
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[01] Prelude I [05:40]
[02] Prelude II [04:17]
[03] Prelude III [05:12]
[04] Prelude IV [05:12]
[05] Prelude V [04:53]
[06] Prelude VI [07:20]
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