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Ylang by Robert Rich Robert Rich : Ylang.
 Groundbreaking ambient and dark-ambient.

Robert Rich's Ylang seductively blends Rich's expressive steel guitar, shimmering organic electronics and yearning flute melodies with influences as diverse as south Indian Karnatic music, pulsing minimalism (Steve Reich, Terry Riley) and introspective jazz (Bill Evans, Miles Davis); while its deconstructed drums and blurry guitar feedback might feel at home with Sigur Ros or Bark Psychosis.

Rich enlists help for this undertaking from a circle of trusted musician friends. The rhythmic scaffolding for the album comes from two very different drummers. Ricky Carter adds his intelligent sparse drumming, fluid with syncopation but complex in meter. These rhythms could be a slow tempo homage to Jaki Leibzeit from Can. Post-processing transforms them into rubbery chuffing abstractions. The other rhythmic foundation comes from the Karnatic mrdungam playing of Sakthivel Muruganandhan, which also wanders into Rich's sonic blender, shifting from time-stretched blurs into organic live duets with bansuri master Sunilkumar Sankarapillai.

Lilting in and out of this heady atmosphere of South Indian music and minimalist space jazz, the voice of art-pop virtuoso Emily Bezar adds a feminine intelligence to several pieces, and subtle melodic guitar additions from Haroun Serang augment Rich's soaring lap steel feedback. With acoustic bass from Paul Olguin and string additions from Forrest Fang and Magnatune artist, Hans Christian, the sonic texture warms to a glowing woody earthiness. Rich's audiophile production and delicate sound design glue the textures together into a seductive and inviting mossy nest. From these disparate elements, Ylang forms a sonic entity unto itself.

"A flowering tree that grows in South Asia, Ylang Ylang's fragrance seems to embody elements of shadow and light, eros and gnosis, earth and sky. Like that haunting scent, something keeps calling me from a distance, fugitive on a transient breeze". - RR

Songs:

1. Ambergris
2. Translucent
3. Attar
4. Verbena
5. Kalyani
6. Vetiver
7. Tamarack
8. Charukesi
9. First Rain

Listen to: the entire album.

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Release date: 6/4/2011
Robert Rich lives in California USA

Tagged as: Ambient, New Age, Ethereal, Experimental Electronic, Space Music

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