Robert Rich - 2001 - Somnium

Release type: Full-length

Style: Ambient

Country:  USA 

Label:  Hypnos

Format: MP3@CBR 256 Kbps

Size:  776 mb

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Somnium is a single continuous track, a 7-hour "sleep concert" recording in DVD format (playable on ordinary home DVD video players).

"I'm making a deliberate choice to write a short review for this 7+ HOUR RECORDING by the legendary mr. Rich. What's to say? Words fail me in glorifying this epic creation. It's wonderful, it's breathtaking, and it's virtually eternal. The disc has only three tracks, and the SHORTEST of them is 120 minutes. If you have a DVD player and you are a life form which requires intervals of sleep, this album is absolutely essential. Indeed; his music channels the gaia consciousness and draws you to her fragrant bosom. There's seashores, and enchanted glades, and spatial anomalies aplenty... how could there not be? And you're NOT SUPPOSED TO HEAR IT. The artists's intent is simply for you to experience it briefly between REM states. Yet it's entirely listenable, in that it is in a constant state of subtle transition. Absolutely masterful. Please, for your own sake -- find this album, and BUY it." --Sleepbot

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Robert Rich - 1998 - Seven veils

Release type: Full-length

Style: Minimal/Experimental/Ambient

Country:  USA 

Label:  Hearts Of Space

Format: MP3@CBR 320 Kbps

Size:  140 mb

Official/Preview: MySpace

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Seven rhythm-charged compositions inpired by the exotic, sensual ambience of the Middle East: On previous albums like Rainforest, Gaudi, Propagation, Yearning and Fissures, ROBERT RICH has shown uncanny skill at merging ethnic instruments with electronic enhancements. Seven Veils perfects this evolution, showcasing Rich's pulsating organic percussion, subtle electronics, and solo virtuosity on slide guitar and bamboo flutes. With special guests DAVID TORN on electric guitar, FORREST FANG violin, HANS CHRISTIAN cello, MARK FORRY kaval, and ANDREW McGOWAN bass. Seven Veils is blazingly original music and audiophile quality sound by one of the world's top electro-acoustic artists.

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Robert Rich & Alio Die - 1997 - Fissures

Release type: Full-length

Style: Abstract/Experimental/Ambient

Country:  USA 

Label:  Fathom

Format: MP3@CBR 320 Kbps

Size:  143 mb

Official/Preview: MySpace

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Bonds to the natural world played a strong part in the conception of Fissures, as Rich explains. The album's vast sonic panoramas have origins in both theoretical and practical considerations: "I know it's a controversial thing to say, but synthesizers aren't capable of certain things. The organic, animal connection you have to the sound making process is lost. That's why Stefano and I approached the recording by employing all the technologies available to us, which includes many acoustic instruments. The sound sources on Fissures are amazingly acoustic, while electronic processing plays a role in setting the atmosphere." Likewise, the perceptual cracks through which the listener falls are those that derange the common outlook of the world. "In the microcosmic world, when you look at details under a microscope, you get a sense of the vastness of minutiae. The hugeness of the music in Fissures mirrors the hugeness of the single-celled organism when seen acutely, closely." Fissures also marks a departure from Rich's so-called "dark ambient" work that has populated several memorable compilations over the past three years, and collected on Fathom's A Troubled Resting Place. This too draws back to the album's central motif and title: the cracks in the world that allow passage into realms both alien and imminent. "A 'fissure,' in the shamanic sense," says Rich, "is the point where you dive between worlds. The connection for me in this metaphor is that the journey is undertaken for healing purposes. Stefano and I took a similar journey in our collaboration, and what we brought back is surprisingly gentle, although not without its shadows."

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Robert Rich & Lisa Moskow - 1995 - Yearning

Release type: Full-length

Style: Ethno/Ambient

Country:  USA 

Label:  Fathom

Format: MP3@CBR 320 Kbps

Size:  148 mb

Official/Preview: MySpace

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The musical concept behing Yearning emerged during the making of ROBERT RICH's 1994 Hearts of Space release Propagation, when LISA MOSKOW arrived to record her sarod improvisations. "I was struck by the possibility of a spatially enhanced, sound-designed album of alap," Rich explains. "I was looking for the album I was hearing in my head, something no one had ever done before, a complete aural womb that would go on forever and ever."

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