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Robert Rich

MUSIC

Sunyata & Inner Landscapes by Robert Rich
Release: 2013
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A beautiful archival re-issue of Robert's early work, his 1982 debut and live 1985 concert, in a 2CD digipack with 8 page booklet.
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Sunyata & Inner Landscapes Robert Rich
Nest by Robert Rich
Release: 2012
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A revery of landscape and internal spaces.
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Nest Robert Rich
Medicine Box by Robert Rich
Release: 2011
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Ecstatic, shamanic, surreal, spiritual: Medicine Box may be Rich’s most dynamic album yet, an adept blending of technology with the ancient.
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Medicine Box Robert Rich
Ylang by Robert Rich
Release: 2010
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Lush and Organic: languid polyrhythms and shimmering electronics blend with South Indian, post-rock, jazz and minimalism.
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Ylang Robert Rich
Temple of the Invisible by Robert Rich
Release: 2003
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A ritual from an unknown civilization, a distant time and place, with musical references that reach from Java to North Africa, Medieval Europe to the Tibetan Plateau.
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Temple of the Invisible Robert Rich
Open Window by Robert Rich
Release: 2004
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Solo improvisational piano with influences ranging from Alan Hovhannes, G.I. Gurdjieff and Erik Satie to Terry Riley and Keith Jarrett.
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Open Window Robert Rich
Echo of Small Things by Robert Rich
Release: 2005
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"Listening to these tactile excavations, we can emerge with a resounding artifact: a gift of memory, or memory misplaced. We rekindle our love of restless beauty, of what lies buried beyond the next sweet and perilous curve." David Agasi, Tokyo
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Echo of Small Things Robert Rich
Electric Ladder by Robert Rich
Release: 2006
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Shimmering and lush electronic music with undercurrents of minimalism.
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Electric Ladder Robert Rich
Bestiary by Robert Rich
Release: 2001
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This musical bestiary maps a perplexing mindscape, shapeshifting organisms painted in sound, a sonic surrealism. Rhythmic, energetic, bizarre and very glurpy.
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Bestiary Robert Rich
Music from Atlas Dei by Robert Rich
Release: 2007
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Electronic ambient soundtrack to the film: at times floating, melodic, rhythmic, shadowy, deep, flowing and intense.
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Music from Atlas Dei Robert Rich
Illumination by Robert Rich
Release: 2007
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Subtle, deep, slow electronic atmospherics created for a video installation by Michael Somoroff in New York.
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Illumination Robert Rich
Calling Down the Sky by Robert Rich
Release: 2004
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"The deep, ethereal soundscapes that Robert Rich creates don't engage you as much as they engulf you. Shimmering waves of sound pour from the speakers, transforming both space and time." Keyboard Magazine
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Calling Down the Sky Robert Rich
Ici et Maintenant: Live in Paris, May 12 1989 by Robert Rich
Release: 2009
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Live Archive Volume 1: From Robert's early Geometry and Rainforest period, with hours of previously unreleased music. Melodic sequencers with swift patterned keyboard improvisation, melting down into slow looping textures and flutes.
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Ici et Maintenant: Live in Paris, May 12 1989 Robert Rich
Due Acque: Live in Umbria Italy, April 1 2000 by Robert Rich
Release: 2009
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Live Archive Volume 2: A deep ambient journey performed at a private concert in Italy for fans of Robert's slowest and most introspective music.
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Due Acque: Live in Umbria Italy, April 1 2000 Robert Rich
Shamballa: Live in Costa Mesa CA, May 20 2000 by Robert Rich
Release: 2009
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Live Archive Volume 3: A dynamic live concert from the era of Humidity, blending moments of pure sonic improvisation with melodic pieces from the Fathom-era catalog.
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Shamballa: Live in Costa Mesa CA, May 20 2000 Robert Rich
Alien Zoology: Live at Morrison Planetarium, San Francisco, December 9 2001 by Robert Rich
Release: 2009
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Live Archive Volume 4: A wide-ranging planetarium concert that opens with modular analog sequences and moves into pieces from Outpost, Bestiary and '90s Fathom-era material.
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Alien Zoology: Live at Morrison Planetarium, San Francisco, December 9 2001 Robert Rich
Live at Cowell Theater, San Francisco, May 12 2002 by Robert Rich
Release: 2009
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Live Archive Volume 5: One of the more melodic concerts in the series, opening with piano and guitar improvisations, then moving into tracks from Bestiary and other rhythmic pieces from the last decade.
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Live at Cowell Theater, San Francisco, May 12 2002 Robert Rich
Lumin: Live at Camerawork, March 6 2008 by Robert Rich
Release: 2009
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Live Archive Volume 6: A shimmering improvisatory sound environment, where harmonics blur into waves of pure abstraction, performed live with multiple projections of films by Paul Clipson. New music.
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Lumin: Live at Camerawork, March 6 2008 Robert Rich
Mycosphere: Live on KFJC, May 31 2008 by Robert Rich
Release: 2009
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Live Archive Volume 7: A radio performance for Day of Drone, where Robert explores the slow depths with abstract organic soundscapes and glurp. New music.
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Mycosphere: Live on KFJC, May 31 2008 Robert Rich
Below Zero by Robert Rich
Release: 1998
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Deep dark ambient abstraction, among Rich's most foreboding and expansive works, telling a story of infinite distance, inhuman scale and deep time.
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Below Zero Robert Rich
Humidity by Robert Rich
Release: 2000
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Captures the trance-inducing intensity of Rich's dark ambient performances, with swirling abstract textures and deep throbbing tribal rhythms.
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Humidity Robert Rich
Somnium by Robert Rich
Release: 2001
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Continuous 7 hour piece of music on DVD, guiding the listener through an ever-changing dreamscape, with levels of subtle detail that reward both active attention and background listening.
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Somnium Robert Rich