A Troubled Resting Place

1. Simorgh Sleeps on Velvet Tongues

2. Calling by Stormlight

3. Buoyant on Motionless Deluge

4. Bioelectric Plasma

5. Black Skies

6. Night Skies Replies: A Ripple of Sand/Night Spinning Inward/A Wheel Que

A Troubled Resting Place,Robert Rich,Fathom/Hos,Ambient,New Age / Meditation,Pop,Progressive Electronic

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Average customer rating: Music as Symbolism The best of the best from the best ... Not quite easy Whatever it is, I like it A must have on a plane

A Troubled Resting Place Robert Rich Manufacturer: Fathom/Hos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Ambient | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music Electronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music World Dance | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music Electronic | Progressive | Rock | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music World Dance | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Midnight Moon Spirit Dome Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid Somnific Flux Space And Time ASIN: B000000X7G Release Date: 1996-07-16

Tracks:

1. The Simorgh Sleeps On Velvet Tongues
2. Calling By Stormlight
3. Buoyant On Motionless Deluge
4. Bioelectric Plasma
5. Black Skies
6. Night Sky Replies: A Ripple Of Sand/Night Spinning Inward/A Wheel Questions The Ground...

Product Description

1. Turning to Stone 5:27
2. A Canopy of Shivers 5:51
3. Sirena 9:10
4. Mycelia 8:13
5. The Divine Radiance of Invertebrates 8:37
6. The Road to Wirikuta 18:49
7. Tree of the Wind 5:40

Format: CD

Amazon.com essential recording

As its title implies, this unified collection of tracks from lesser-known electronic and experimental compilations (like Throne of Drones and Twilight Earth II) finds Rich in some of his darkest moods. Unlike more rhythm-oriented albums like Rainforest and Propagation, this collection of six Rich compositions journeys through a thick musical ether which seems like it could seep out of your speakers and enshroud your room. Despite the presence of gongs, bells, drums, and steel guitar amidst the synths, the overall feel of these compositions is very spacy. Even the percussive sounds that gradually perforate the dense aural fog of "Bioelectric Plasma" ultimately remain ensnared within the track's overwhelming ethereality. The standout cut is "Black Skies," whose intense bursts of dissonant noise over a bed of delicate drones seem to herald doomsday. This seamless, frequently psychedelic collection of electro-acoustic soundscapes is quite gripping and dramatic. --Bryan Reesman

Customer Reviews:

Music as Symbolism.......2006-12-07

In this project Robert Rich places mood & thought above the music. Dehumanized rituals implying unfathomed mysteries in otherwise familiar textures. This CD is hospitable yet holds an underlying ominous morphologic energy. Gazing through a primal haze at totemic figures tracks 1 & 6 hold a carved paranoid possession over the listener. Track 4 builds a display of an other worldly thunderstorm.

The best of the best from the best ..........2006-03-05

Rare and beautiful sounds for the substrata of your soul...an insideout massage.

Not quite easy.......2005-08-09

There are types of music that i find comforting to sleep to, or study with, or just keep on. This one scares me while I sleep in the basement at night. I am more fond of the work he has done with other artists. I was disappointed upon the 3rd listening.

Whatever it is, I like it.......2003-09-01

I'll be the first to admit that I don't know a good deal about ambient music, but I can generally recognize a good CD when I hear one, and this is a good CD. Ambient (the style of which Robert Rich is usually considered to be a practitioner) sometimes seems to be popularly considered a "relaxing" and "soothing" (read: phatic and boring) style, but that certainly isn't an accurate view of this music. Listen to it with good headphones in a dark, cool room at night, and you will be transported. If you like to hang out in isolated forests and ruined abbeys, but happen to be stuck at home, this music is actually not a bad substitute.

The tracks vary enough that I can't make many generalizations, but they are all good. I was particularly impressed by the complexity of the textures. You can listen to this several times and notice new things each time. Also, the sound quality is excellent. Some of the percussion instruments sound as if they are actually in my living room. (My speakers are good, but not normally *that* good.)

A must have on a plane.......2000-07-20

The use of high and low harmonics in a dream like arrangement leaves the listener almost dazed, if not hypnotized. I took this on a plane trip and was amazed that I could not differentiate between plane noises or Rich's arrangement. Perfect music for a unsettling ambiance. Subtle enough for meditation or yoga. Can lead to intense or dark dreams if listened as you go to sleep.

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2. Americana Series: Appalachian Aire
3. Americana Series [Box set]
4. Another Star in the Sky
5. Cabaret Galactic
6. Celtic Harp Vol. 4: O'Carolan's Dream
7. Clash
8. Classic Hymns Revisited
9. Collected Ambient & Textural Works 1977-1987
10. Collection: 1981-1987 [Box set] [Import]

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Everybody's Talkin': Very Best of Harry Nilsson [Import]

Symphony No.3 for Orchestra and Soprano, Op.36

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien Op45; Nutcracker Op71a

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Transgression, Vol. 2

Trance: 1

Stationen [Import]

Virus

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St. John's Night On Bare Mountain

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The Swoll Package [Soundtrack]

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Dave Brubeck at Storyville 1954