Brooklyn based minimalist composer Kyle Bobby Dunn follows his excellent A Young Person’s Guide To… album with a new two track E.P.

Returning to Alberta, Canada and the scenes of hazy childhood memories during the composing and recording of the two tracks on the EP, Dunn manages to convey the dissonance of those childhood experiences suggested in the title track. Stretching out over almost ten minutes, Dunn has produced a glacial slab of sound which has an unsettling edge to it. This is no easy listening relaxation piece.

Senium III, in contrast, is a far more celestial affair. Expansive and enveloping it has warmth, light and a comforting air of composure. As with his latest album, Kyle Bobby Dunn has, using a relatively limited palette of sounds, created music to totally immerse yourself in. Dive in, you’re in the hands of a master.

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Incorporating last year’s download only album, Fervency, New York based minimalist composer and sound artist Kyle Bobby Dunn’s latest offering, A Young Person’s Guide To Kyle Bobby Dunn, occupies a mesmerizing middle-ground between avant-garde drone soundscapes and the minimalist modern classicism of say Steve Reich or Hildur Gudnadottir.

Dunn’s methodology is to record classical musicians playing strings, piano, brass and guitar and processes and manipulate the sound until he is left with translucent and shimmering notes which seem to hang forever in the air, not so much floating ethereally as suspended by a kind of surface tension. This is music which holds its breath.

By allowing himself two CDs to explore his ideas, Dunn has been able to produce a work which is expansive and permits the listener to glide through the full spectrum of his sound – from the tense void of pieces such as The Second Ponderosa, which recalls the kind of thing The Orb were dabbling with twenty years ago but without the intrusion of the tiresome sampling of astronaut radio excerpts, to the softer, more enveloping piano sound of Last Minute Jest.

An antidote to a cluttered mind, A Young Person’s Guide To Kyle Bobby Dunn, is something to immerse yourself in. See you in a couple of hours.

A Young Person’s Guide To Kyle Bobby Dunn is available through Low Point Records.