Robert Rich : Trances-Drones CD1.
Groundbreaking ambient and dark-ambient.

On this essential album Robert Rich reprises the "sleep concert" format that made him famous, so the music is both wonderfully relaxing and perpetually fascinating. There's a lot going on in this material--layer after layer of swirling textures and tones. It's so mesmerizing, in fact, that you'll find yourself startled if one of the pieces is interrupted prematurely: Rich has a talent for finding the mind's natural rhythms, which means that the music naturally steers you toward a mysterious and deeply satisfying state of equilibrium. CD 1 features the trances side of the Trances-Drones dyad.

Songs:

1. Cave Paintings
2. Hayagriva
3. Sunyata (Emptiness)

Listen to: the entire album.

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Release date: 8/14/2007
Robert Rich lives in California USA

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

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