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Markus Reuter & Robert Rich – Eleven Questions

Markus Reuter & Robert Rich – Eleven Questions
MP3 @ 256 Kbps | 53:13 min | 2007 | 109 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Unlike most releases of the ambient/electronica genre, each piece on Eleven Questions has an instant appeal. The songs form concise statements and mostly feature acoustic and electro-acoustic instruments (lap steel, touch guitar, piano, acoustic guitar, flutes), rather than synthesizers.

Robert Rich – Music From Atlas Dei

Robert Rich – Music From Atlas Dei
MP3 @ 192 Kbps VBR | 1:06:25 min | 2007 | 106 MB | 10% Recovery Record

This CD focuses on new music from the film Atlas Dei – those pieces that aren’t released on previous CDs. The remaining tracks on this CD feature new mixes, crossfades and edits of the older pieces.

Robert Rich – Rainforest

Robert Rich – Rainforest
MP3 @ 256 Kbps VBR | 53:10 min | 1989 | 97.3 MB | 10% Recovery Record

On his first widespread release, Rich contemplates the ravaged state of the world’s rain forests, and the music herein reflects both the beauty and mystery of those gradually disappearing environments. These aspects of beauty and mystery are represented by pulsating, rhythmic tracks and denser atmospheric works, respectively. The former is epitomized by opening piece “Mbira,” a playful dance of xylophone-like percussion and bamboo flute accompanied by a fretless bass gently gliding over them; while the latter is best showcased in the ghostly flute free fall which builds during the eerie, airy “Sanctuary.” The composer has such an uncanny ability to conjure vivid musical imagery that can transport listeners into his vision of a rain forest. One can practically feel the dampness of the vegetation, envision the evergreen locale, and connect with the pulse of life within its dense ecosystem. Rainforest was Rich’s first breakthrough album, and it remains his most commercially successful.

Robert Rich & Lisa Moskow – Yearning

Robert Rich & Lisa Moskow – Yearning
MP3 @ 256 Kbps | 59:41 min | 1995 | 124 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Robert Rich and Lisa Moskow created Yearning as an ‘Evolution of the traditional approach to alop’, the introduction and slowest part of the Indian raga. It explores the intensity of meditative electroacoustic ambience. Indeed, it goes beyond electroacoustic to psychoactive. Rich, one of the finest sound designers ever, has crafted these atmospheres with strong overtone qualities. The organic textures wend their way into the synapses of the brain and surround the serotonin with warmth, love and nurturance. Deep listeners will feel the pull of the graceful melodies as Rich and Moskow weave a thoughtful and evocative soundworld. Like most of Rich’s work, this CD is relatively peerless. It stands with the music of Steve Roach and David Parsons as unique.