Name: Block Boundaries
Brand: Ryan Teague

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VG 021CD

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2014-11-04

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Supplier US

Forced Exposure

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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5051083083249

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

VG 021LP

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5051083083256

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Artist

Ryan Teague

Genre US

Modern Composition

Label US

Village Green (UK)

Ryan Teague is a composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist based in Bristol (UK). His music combines acoustic sources and arrangements with electronic synthesis and processing to create unique contemporary soundscapes. Ryan has released numerous albums and EPs on labels including Village Green, Type Records and Sonic Pieces, and performs live in various incarnations. He also produces music and sound design for Film & TV and has spent an extended period of time in Indonesia studying Javanese Gamelan music. His latest project Recursive Iterations incorporates cinematic arrangements and cutting edge sound design within an algorithmic framework to striking effect.

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Block Boundaries is the new album from minimalist composer Ryan Teague building on his previous releases for Type, Sonic Pieces and current label Village Green. Inspired by the theme of psychogeography, the record fuses acoustic instrumentation with electronic and processed material, taking the listener on a hallucinogenic Ballard-ian journey through from the thrumming urban activity of New York, Amsterdam and London. Brooding opener "Site &amp; Situation" sets the tone with hypnotic guitar and mallet chimes, emotive cello swells and surging bass synth, "Last Known Position" comes on like a lost Tangerine Dream jam session, spiraling arpeggios and oscillating pulses, while "Liminal Space" introduces driving percussion around mesmeric synth pulses and a shimmering piano progression. Closer "End of the Line" brings the journey to an end in an introspective mood — a wavering synth figure cut against wistful drone washes that fade into the distance. Block Boundaries is a masterful achievement of melody, form and texture that rewards more with every captivated listen and will assuredly secure Ryan Teague's place alongside his acclaimed contemporaries such as Nils Frahm, Jon Hopkins, Emeralds and Hauschka.

Block Boundaries

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