A Young Person's Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn

A Young Person's Guide is a double album release from Canadian composer Kyle Bobby Dunn

Kyle Bobby Dunn

Kyle Bobby Dunn is a composer, arranger, and live performer of modern and neo-classical based drone music. He has performed in live and exclusive outdoor settings, including Banff National Park, since 2000 and has released music on various international recording labels.His work has been described...

. It was recorded over a period of six years in Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city by population in North Carolina and the largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. According to the 2010 U.S...

, Calgary, Alberta, Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, and parts of New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

and New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

.

The album is largely made up of minimal compositions crafted and produced by processed classical instruments, electric guitar and piano. Most songs surpass the 10 minute mark in long droning suites with two shorter piano-led vignettes that balance out the second disc. Some sounds seem to be gathered from natural elements, static, old video or television dialogues, and other quiet samples.

Four pieces from the beginning of the album were released in April 2009 as a digital download from the Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

label Moodgadget

Moodgadget

Moodgadget is an independent electronic music label, founded in 2004 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Jakub Marek Alexander and Adam E. Hunt, with the mission statement "Exposing the diversity in electronically made music." They started the label with the goal of popularizing their opinion that electronic...

Critical Reaction

The album was generally praised by critics. Ned Raggett, writing for Allmusic, stated:
Delusions of Adequacy music journalists, Mark Lesseraux and Greg Argo, rewarded the album by writing:
Peter Van Cooten heavily praised the album – expressing an emotionality that separated it largely from other guitar and drone based musics. He wrote,
Tobias Fischer of Tokafi Magazine relished the album with compliments and praise:
Star's End

Star's End

Star's End is a weekly, five-hour-long New Age music radio show broadcast by 88.5 WXPN, the University of Pennsylvania's radio station, in Philadelphia. It is the second longest-running show of its type in the world, after Hearts of Space.-History:...

, reveled in the album with:
Indie rock webzine, Tome to the Weather Machine, also rated the album highly, reviewing:

Track listing

Disc One

"Butel" - 17:30
"The Tributary (For Voices Lost)" – 10:38
"There Is No End (To Your Beauty)" – 14:34
"Promenade" – 9:08
"Small Show of Hands" – 4:12

Disc Two

"Grab (And Its Lost Legacies)" – 11:34
"Empty Gazing" – 6:53
"Last Minute Jest" – 2:03
"The Second Ponderosa" – 9:11
"Bonaventure's Finest Hour" – 10:55
"Sets of Four (Its Meaning Is Deeper Than Its Title Implies)" – 4:55
"The Nightjar" – 11:17

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.

Critical Reaction

Track listing

External links & reviews