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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.
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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Apa6ek wrote:
amazing music!! "calling down the sky" is my favourite amlbum, can listen it many times in a row. stalker is great too, but i think it mostly belongs to lustmord:) i don't like his new age stuff, though (i hate new age as a whole. i wish i like it but i can't)
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pterodata wrote:
great work, thanks for all this inspiration, and welcome to Pterodata at www.lastfm.com.br/music/pterodata
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elderlinx wrote:
hehe, that's right Arlek1n, he's pretty unique
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OCVfan wrote:
givea listen to my favourite-band! www.myspace.com/ourceasingvoice
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AxemRangers wrote:
Ambient so relaxing that I've basically never listened to him while conscious.
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Mirra_Gray wrote:
lovely..
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Arlek1n wrote:
"rainforest"-best album,i didn't hear another man,who can make musik,which of looks like on Robert's music.
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WiffleBallTony wrote:
Somnium is one of the greatest albums I've ever heard. Fantastic sleeping music.
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Grindfucked wrote:
most of his stuff is good, but some of it is a little bit too much new age.
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Dosferra wrote:
"but I prefer music that's more syntetic on a macrocosmic level" Hah ; P
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Lordmarth wrote:
Rainforest is a damn good companion to sleep. Rich remains one of my favorite 'ambient maker' in late night session with Alio Die or Eno.
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Omega_Switch22B wrote:
Numena pretty much does the same to me. Along with Gaudi (which, directed to loulou311's shout, I would recommend for a beginner), it's my favorite one by this incredible artist.
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pubicwi6 wrote:
Electric Ladder transports me to a mother-ship, via tractor beam; amidst the aliens I float away, onto their beautiful ship. . . Take me away, to the great space frontier.
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mamc2501 wrote:
i love "stalker" in colaboration with Lustmord, and for a beginer i recomend Numena :)
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loulou311 wrote:
What album(s) is/are best to start with for a new listener?
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Fantomax wrote:
Aircode III
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OctavariumTrap wrote:
somnium is amazing.
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Realist-st wrote:
Of course, on a microcosmic level :D
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Picnick wrote:
But on which level?
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Realist-st wrote:
Try to listen his collaborations with Ian Boddy (albums - React, Outpost, Lithosphere) they are "more synthetic" :).
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July 4: Magnatune = Live Archive CDs
30 Jun 2009 | from robertrich.com
Good news for those of you who clamored for hard-copy versions of the “Live Archive” concerts. I have arranged a deal with Magnatune.com, that they will offer both download and one-off CD versions of all 7 concerts in the Live Archive set. …
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