Kyle Bobby Dunn – Pour Les Octaves
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Kyle Bobby Dunn’s Pour Les Octaves may feel like nothing new but it also feels like it’s been a while since we’ve heard anything quite like it…
The two songs contained on Pour Les Octaves have a very stripped down quality…and, yes, even by the standards of minimalism. Both songs tend to rely on two instruments: PSR and space. Space, and by space I mean absence of sound or ‘nothing’ becomes a real ‘instrument’ in these pieces allowing them to breathe.
Both songs also crescendo; ‘PSR Music for Jennifer Schull’ builds until all the space is removed and we are drowning in PSR-sounds, ‘Remnants’ builds until a quiet piano melody joins the PSR swells and we find that, in context, such a quaint sound becomes so grand. In fact, at times it even feels like the gap between swells turns each section of the songs into a series of smaller songs – like snapshots of some kind.
It is impossible to listen to these pieces in a room filled with people without the background noise of everyday life integrating itself into the compositions. Maybe it was intended that way?
Final note: words failed me on this one — maybe that’s a good thing?
- Review by Brendan Moore for Fluid Radio
Composed & Arranged by Kyle Bobby Dunn for PSR and guitar in 2004 & 2005
Side A: PSR Music for Jennifer Schull
Side B: Remnants
Available through Peasant Magik
