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Night Sky Replies
''Night Sky Replies'' (1994) is a limited edition CD single, mini album by the United States, American Ambient music, ambient musician Robert Rich (musician), Robert Rich. It is a continuous 20+ minute piece divided into four movements. This album was released by the Italian label, Amplexus (label), Amplexus, which specializes in limited edition mini CDs by notable ambient artists like Steve Roach (musician), Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana and Michael Stearns. In 1996 “Night Sky Replies” became the final track on Rich’s compilation album ''A Troubled Resting Place''. Track listing #”A Ripple of Sand” – 3:22 #”Night Spinning Inward” – 6:28 #”A Wheel Questions the Ground” – 7:10 #”The Night Sky Replies” – 4:20 References Robert Rich (musician) albums 1994 EPs {{EP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Rich (musician)
Robert Rich (born 23 August 1963) is an ambient musician and composer based in California, United States. With a discography spanning over 30 years, he has been called a figure whose sound has greatly influenced today's ambient music, New-age music, and even IDM. Biography Early life At an early age, Rich thought he disliked music. Around age 12, he began growing succulent plants as a hobby. He would leave a radio tuned to classical music for his plants. This experience influenced his interest in avant-garde and minimal composition. In the 5th grade, he began studying viola and voice. He never completed his formal training because he became uncomfortable with reading musical notation. He began looking for ways to generate sounds similar to those he heard in his mind. He started improvising on his parents' piano to hear the sound of the sustained strings droning in tonal combinations, in the style of Charlemagne Palestine. He began building his own synthesizer in 1976 when he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambient Music
Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. It may lack net composition, beat, or structured melody.The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast, Bloomsbury, London, 2003. It uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation. The genre is said to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual",Prendergast, M. ''The Ambient Century''. 2001. Bloomsbury, USA or "unobtrusive" quality. Nature soundscapes may be included, and the sounds of acoustic instruments such as the piano, strings and flute may be emulated through a synthesizer. The genre originated in the 1960s and 1970s, when new musical instruments were being introduced to a wider market, such as the synthesizer. It was presaged by Erik Satie's furniture music and styles such as musique concrète, minimal music, and German electronic music, but was prominently named and popularized by Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amplexus (label)
Amplexus was an Italian record label that was founded by Stefano Gentile that specialized in limited-edition mini CDs by notable ambient artists such as Steve Roach, vidnaObmana, Robert Rich, and Michael Stearns. It went out of business in 2003 and was replaced by Silentes. See also * List of record labels File:Alvinoreyguitarboogie.jpg File:AmMusicBunk78.jpg File:Bingola1011b.jpg Lists of record labels cover record labels, brands or trademarks associated with marketing of music recordings and music videos. The lists are organized alphabetically, b ... External linksAmplexus Italian record labels Ambient music record labels Defunct record labels of Italy {{Italy-record-label-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trances/Drones
''Trances/Drones'' (1994) is an album by the American ambient musician Robert Rich. It is a two-disc compilation of Rich's drone music albums ''Trances'' (1983) and ''Drones'' (1983) plus other material that was recorded during that time. Overview Disc one contains the album ''Trances'', plus the title track from Rich's 1982 debut '' Sunyata''. At the time this compilation was released, ''Sunyata'' was only available in its original 86-minute cassette release and had been out of print for several years. When the album ''Sunyata'' was re-released in 2000 on compact disc, this title track was omitted because of the CD's 81-minute length restriction. Disc two contains the album ''Drones'', plus a previously unreleased track titled “Resonance,” which was recorded at Stanford University on January 31, 1983. The liner notes describe this piece as an “acoustic room resonance derived from delayed feedback Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yearning (album)
''Yearning'' (1995) is a collaborative album by ambient musician Robert Rich and sarod player Lisa Moskow. It is based on the classical Indian musical form known as alap. Alap is the first and slowest section of a raga. The music on this album consists of Moskow’s sarod solos set against Rich’s classic droning ambiences. Track listing #”part 1: Bija” – 10:30 #”part 2: Suspension” – 9:50 #”part 3: Nada” – 8:50 #”part 4: Kali” – 7:50 #”part 5: A Thousand Tears” – 11:40 #”part 6: The Mirror” – 10:56 Personnel *Robert Rich – flutes, electronics, gliss guitar, santur The santur (also ''santūr'', ''santour'', ''santoor'') ( fa, سنتور), is a hammered dulcimer of Iranian origins.--- Rashid, Subhi Anwar (1989). ''Al-ʼĀlāt al-musīqīyya al-muṣāhiba lil-Maqām al-ʻIrāqī''. Baghdad: Matbaʻat al-ʻ ..., percussion, sound design *Lisa Moskow – sarod References External links *Hearts of Space Records Album Page' {{Authority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CD Single
A CD single (sometimes abbreviated to CDS) is a music single in the form of a compact disc. The standard in the Red Book for the term ''CD single'' is an 8 cm (3-inch) CD (or Mini CD). It now refers to any single recorded onto a CD of any size, particularly the CD5, or 5-inch CD single. The format was introduced in the mid-1980s but did not gain its place in the market until the early 1990s. With the rise in digital downloads in the early 2010s, sales of CD singles have decreased. Commercially released CD singles can vary in length from two songs (an A side and B side, in the tradition of 7-inch 45-rpm records) up to six songs like an EP. Some contain multiple mixes of one or more songs (known as remixes), in the tradition of 12-inch vinyl singles, and in some cases, they may also contain a music video for the single itself (this is an enhanced CD) as well as occasionally a poster. Depending on the nation, there may be limits on the number of songs and total length for sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine United States Minor Outlying Islands, Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in Compact of Free Association, free association with three Oceania, Pacific Island Sovereign state, sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Palau, Republic of Palau. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders Canada–United States border, with Canada to its north and Mexico–United States border, with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Roach (musician)
Steve Roach (born February 16, 1955) is an American composer and performer of ambient and electronic music, whose recordings are informed by his impressions of environment, perception, flow and space. His work has been influential in the trance and new-age genres. Roach has received two Grammy Award nominations for New Age Album of the Year: His 2017 album ''Spiral Revelation'' for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards., and 2018's ''Molecules Of Motion'' for the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. Roach's work has also been listed on "1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die." Overview Originally a Motocross racer, at the age of 20 Roach taught himself to play the synthesizer after being inspired by such influential synthesizer artists and groups as Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis. His debut album ''Now'' appeared in 1982, followed by ''Structures from Silence'' in 1984. In 1986 he released his acclaimed ''Quiet Music'' series. In 1988, he released what has been described by c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vidna Obmana
Vidna Obmana (stylized vidnaObmana on many album covers) is a pseudonym used by Belgian composer and ambient musician Dirk Serries. The name ''Vidna Obmana'', a phrase in Serbian, literally translates to "optical illusion" and was chosen by Serries because he felt it accurately described the music. Serries created music under the Vidna Obmana pseudonym from 1984 until 2007, when he officially retired the name. Most of his current work is released under the Fear Falls Burning pseudonym. Vidna Obmana's music has often been described as anamorphic and organic. He uses the techniques of looping and shaping harmonies, minimizing the configurations to a few notes. Vidna Obmana has collaborated on several occasions with artists such as Asmus Tietchens, Brannan Lane, Capriolo Trifoglio, Diego Borotti, and Steve Roach. Some of these collaborations have become entire projects of their own, such as Continuum (collaboration with Bass Communion) and Principle of Silence (collaboration wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Stearns
Michael Stearns (born October 16, 1948) is an American musician and composer of ambient music. He is also known as a film composer, sound designer and soundtrack producer for large format films, theatrical films, documentaries, commercials, and themed attractions. Biography Growing up in Tucson, Arizona, Stearns started practicing guitar at 13. At 16, he played in a surf music band, sometimes backing artists such as The Lovin' Spoonful and Paul Revere & the Raiders. Evolving to acid rock, he began composing music on multiple instruments in 1968 and, while in university and in the Air Force, spent a few years studying electronic music synthesis, the physics of musical instruments, and accumulating equipment (musical instruments, tape recorders...) for his first studio. The studio opened in Tucson, Arizona in 1972 where he produced jingles and commercials for local radio and television, and nationally released jingles for Schlitz Beer and Greyhound Bus Lines. Stearns's i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Troubled Resting Place
''A Troubled Resting Place'' (1996) is a compilation album by the American ambient musician Robert Rich. The first five tracks were originally released on multi-artist compilations. The sixth and final track is Rich’s 1994 mini-CD Mini CDs, or pocket CDs, are CDs with a smaller diameter and one-third the storage capacity of a standard 120 mm disc. Formats Amongst the various formats are the *Mini CD single, a small disc. The format is mainly used for audio CD si ... release '' Night Sky Replies''. In spite of the wide variety of sources of the material in this compilation, there is a constant style throughout the album. It consists of dark, turbulent organic atmospheres. Track listing #”The Simorgh Sleeps on Velvet Tongues” – 10:14 #:(Originally released on ''The Throne of Drones'', 1995.) #”Calling by Stormlight” – 5:10 #:(Originally released on ''Twilight Earth II'', 1995.) #”Buoyant on Motionless Deluge” – 8:00 #:(Originally re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Rich (musician) Albums
Robert Rich may refer to: * Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick (1559–1619), English nobleman * Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1587–1658), English naval officer and politician * Robert Rich, 3rd Earl of Warwick (1611–1659) *Sir Robert Rich, 2nd Baronet (c. 1648–1699), English Member of Parliament and a Lord of the Admiralty * Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet (1685–1768), British field marshal *Sir Robert Rich, 5th Baronet (1717–1785), British general *Robert E. Rich Sr. (1913–2006), inventor of non-dairy whipped topping, founder of Rich Products *Robert E. Rich Jr. (born 1941), chairman of Rich Products Corporation * Robert E. Rich (born 1926), American intelligence official *Robert F. Rich Robert Fleming Rich (June 23, 1883 – April 28, 1968) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Early life and education Robert F. Rich was born in Woolrich, Pennsylvania. He attended Dickinson Seminar ... (1883–1968), politician from Penn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
