A Young Person's Guide, by KYLE BOBBY DUNN

A Young Person's Guide

by KYLE BOBBY DUNN

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1.	Butel 17:28	buy track
2.	The Tributary (For Voices Lost) 10:36	buy track
3.	There Is No End To Your Beauty 14:33	buy track
4.	Promenade 09:07	buy track
5.	A Small Show of Hands 04:12	buy track
6.	Grab (And Its Lost Legacies) 11:34	buy track
7.	Empty Gazing 06:52	buy track
8.	Last Minute Jest 02:03	buy track
9.	The Second Ponderosa 09:10	buy track
10.	Bonaventure's Finest Hour 10:55	buy track
11.	Sets of Four (Its Meaning Is Deeper Than Its Title Implies) 04:54	buy track
12.	The Nightjar 11:16	buy track

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"Four of the 12 pieces on Young Person's Guide originally appeared on the download-only album Fervency (the "young person's guide" title of this release seems like a self-conscious joke about our instant-archive culture, and may also be a King Crimson reference), and they're here inserted into a massive, two-hour, 12-song cycle of drones and textures. The eight extra tracks are from the same sessions that produced Fervency, and they are far from padding. I think this actually works better than that album precisely because of its much longer running time, and the shorter, more active pieces on the entirely new second disc help balance the longest, stillest tracks. There is a certain element to this supremely patient music that requires immersion for the listener to really draw maximum satisfaction from it, and positioning these four familiar tracks as a much more expansive work accomplishes that." - Joe Tangari, Pitchfork, January 2011.

credits

released January 18, 2010

Composed & recorded in Calgary, Alberta and Bunce Cake Studios, Brooklyn. 'A Small Show of Hands' was recorded in Los Angeles at Lan's for the Synchronicity Space performance.
All processing by Kyle Bobby Dunn.

© & ℗ 2012 Dunn Music.

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†CR4

Oct 2021
TCR.III

Sep 2021
TCR: Deuxième

Jun 2021
TCR-P1

May 2021

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