Robert feels especially good about this improvisation, and decided to name it Mycosphere because it reminded him of the slow inexorable growth of mycelia, the web-like carpet of fungus that pervades the forest floor, feeding the forest by breaking down dead organic material into simpler nutrients that plants can use. That fungal metaphor didn't specifically inspire this music; but rather, the music reminded him of those images while listening back later.

The feedback loop is now complete.

1. Mycosphere part 1
2. Mycosphere part 2
3. Mycosphere part 3
4. Mycosphere part 4
5. Mycosphere part 5
6. Mycosphere part 6
7. Mycosphere part 7
8. Mycosphere part 8

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 7/3/2009
Robert Rich lives in California USA

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

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2. Bach and Telemann - Sonatas, Preludes and Fantasias by Voices of Music: Lilting Renaissance & Baroque vocal interpretations
3. Johann Mattheson - CD1 - The Twelve Suites of 1714 by Colin Booth: solo harpsichord music
4. Concerto Barocco by Voices of Music: Lilting Renaissance & Baroque vocal interpretations
5. Kyotaku Live by Tilopa: healing magic of the japanese zenflute
6. What do you suppose by Rapoon: Ambient/World dream field
7. Synthetic Dream by Rildrim: electronic music becomes poetry
8. The Kirghiz Light - CD 2 by Rapoon: Ambient/World dream field
9. In Vitro II by Roe: A journey into the deep, beyond the bounds of ambient music
10. Live At Bliss Gardens by Kourosh Dini: minimalist piano with slashes of ambient electronics
11. Red-shifted Harmonies by DAC Crowell: deeply ambient new music
12. The Mechanisms of Starlight by DAC Crowell: deeply ambient new music
13. Et Cetera by Roe: A journey into the deep, beyond the bounds of ambient music
14. Pictures of Silence by Tilopa: healing magic of the japanese zenflute
15. Meditative Music by Satori: healing, meditative ambient new age
16. Ontogeny by Kourosh Dini: minimalist piano with slashes of ambient electronics
17. Deep by Monom: ethnotronica, World music, electronic, downtempo, ambient techno, dystopia, cinematic, far-east, Australia and Europe
18. Velenje Remixed by Monom: ethnotronica, World music, electronic, downtempo, ambient techno, dystopia, cinematic, far-east, Australia and Europe

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