CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Kyle Bobby Dunn
Album....: A Young Person's Guide
Label....: Low Point
Size.....: 170,9 MB
Source...: CDDA
Playtime.: 112:49 min
Genre....: Ambient
Release..: May-16-2011
Encoder..: LAME V3.98.4 -V0
Quality..: avgkbps 44,1Hz Joint-Stereo
TrackList:
Cd1
01 17:30 Butel
02 10:38 The Tributary (for Voices Lost)
03 14:34 There is No End to Your Beauty
04 09:08 Promenade
05 04:12 A Small Show of Hands
Cd2
01 11:34 Grab (and Its Lost Legacies)
02 06:52 Empty Gazing
03 02:03 Last Minute Jest
04 09:11 The Second Ponderosa
05 10:55 Bonaventure's Finest Hour
06 04:55 Sets of Four (Its Meaning is Deeper than
07 11:17 The Nightjar
Release Notes:
Spread across two cds with a total running time of nearly two hours, æA Young PersonÆs Guide ToàÆ is a
stunning collection of recordings from New York based minimalist composer and sound artist Kyle Bobby Dunn.
Four tracks on the first disc originally appeared as the download only album æFervencyÆ, released by the
Moodgadget label in 2009. Impressed by DunnÆs sensitive and world-wise compositions, it was felt that the
music deserved to be released on a physical format and expanded upon with a second disc containing an
additional 60 minutes of music gathered from the same period as the æFervencyÆ recordings.
Utilising an instrumental palette of guitar, strings and brass, often played by classically trained
musicians drafted in on the spur of the moment, the sounds of these sessions were recorded as Dunn
dictated and then reworked via computer processing into spine-tingling soundscapes.
Dunn's compositions here are fully rich in timbre, painterly, hopelessly romantic and haunting; balanced
between a wash of pure sound and an ornate yet subtle dance of classical instrumentation. Occupying a truly
cinematic scope, these pieces can transport the listener from the deepest and most forgotten landscapes
to the furthest recesses of time.