Robert Rich
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California PA, United States (1976 – present)
Robert Rich is an ambient musician and composer based in California, United States.
Across three decades and over 30 albums, Robert Rich has helped define the genres of ambient music, dark ambient, tribal and trance, yet his music remains hard to categorize. Part of his unique sound comes from using home-made acoustic and electronic instruments, microtonal harmonies, computer-based signal processing, chaotic systems and feedback networks. Rich began building his own analog synthesizers in 1976, when he was 13 years old, and later studied for a year at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
Rich released his first album Sunyata in 1982. Most of his subsequent recordings came out in Europe until 1989, when Rich began a string of critically acclaimed releases for Fathom/Hearts of Space, including Rainforest (1989), Gaudí (1991), Propagation (1994) and Seven Veils (1998). His two collaborations with Steve Roach, Strata (1990) and Soma (1992), both charted for several months in Billboard. Other respected collaborations include Stalker (1995 with B. Lustmord), Fissures (1997 with Alio Die) and Outpost (2002 with Ian Boddy). Rich’s contributions to multi-artist compilations have been collected on his solo albums A Troubled Resting Place (1996) and Below Zero (1998). He also records with his group, Amoeba, exploring atmospheric songcraft on their CDs Watchful (1997) and Pivot (2000). Live albums such as Calling Down the Sky (2004) and 3-CD Humidity (2000) document the unique improvised flow of his recent performances.
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Calling Down the Sky
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USA concerts – Dates!
7 Mar 2012 | from robertrich.com
- New T-Shirt 15 Dec 2011 | from robertrich.com
- AUSTRALIA Jan-Feb 2012 5 Dec 2011 | from robertrich.com
- Medicine Box is here at last! 3 Nov 2011 | from robertrich.com
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