Ways of Meaning is a full length vinyl, digital download and art edition album 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 at Bunce Cake studios in 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...

 by the composer in 2010. The recordings are mostly quiet songs that are shorter in length from his earlier material and the 2010 release, A Young Person's Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn

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. It was recorded over a period of six years in Greensboro, North Carolina, Calgary, Alberta, Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan, and parts of New York and New Jersey....

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Interviews with the artist found that the songs were mainly recorded using guitar, laptop and organ as predominant sound sources - although touches of strings, choir, horns, and even electronic samples and textures are seemingly heard in certain songs. His music highly retains the spirit of contemporary classical composers like Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt

Arvo Pärt is an Estonian classical composer and one of the most prominent living composers of sacred music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs his self-made compositional technique, tintinnabuli. His music also finds its inspiration and influence from...

 and like Pärt's music (usually just one or two very simple quiet lines of melody that either converge and crescendo to euphoric peaks, or just as easily end as plainly and hauntingly as they begin) there's an austere and meditative quality that is both oddly attractive and extremely powerful.

Critical Reaction

Delusions of Adequacy music journalist, Mark Lesseraux:
New Artillery's Sebastian Stirling relished in the album, writing:
The Liminal wrote:
Ned Raggett, writing for the All Music Guide, stated:

Track listing

Side A

1. "Dropping Sandwiches (In Chester Lake)" - 3:54
2. "Statuit" – 5:32
3. "Canyon Meadows" – 7:03
4. "New Pures" – 4:06

Side B

1. "Movement for the Completely Fucked" - 14:52
2. "Touhy's Theme" - 5:03

External links & reviews

• Review; "Anti-Gravity Bunny"
• Review; "The Milk Factory"
• Review; "Fluid Radio"
• Review; "ATTN Magazine"
• Review; "Cyclic Defrost"
• Review; "Textura"
• Review; "Muso's Guide
• Interview; Facts Raw at Fluid Radio
• Review; "The Death of CDs"
• Review; "Just Press Play"
• Review; "Middle Class White Noise"
• Review; "Textura"
• Review; "The Liminal"
• Review; "musicAddicted"
• http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8791:kyle-bobby-dunn-qways-of-meaningq&catid=13:albums-and-singles&Itemid=133Review; Brainwashed
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• http://onethirtybpm.com/reviews/album-review-kyle-bobby-dunn-ways-of-meaning/Review; One Thirty BPM
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• Review; Huffington Post