''Rite'' is an ambient

album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...

Julian Cope Julian David Cope (born 21 October 1957) is an English musician and author. He was the singer and songwriter in Liverpool post-punk band the Teardrop Explodes and has followed a solo career since 1983 in addition to working on musical side proj ...

and

Donald Ross Skinner Donald Skinner is a guitarist, songwriter and producer primarily known for his work with Julian Cope. Skinner is commonly known by the name Donald Ross Skinner with the addition of the middle name of ''Ross'' attributed to him by Cope after Gle ...

, released in February 1993 on Cope's own Ma-Gog label. It is the first album in the ''Rite'' series and has been described as "a series of lengthy, mostly instrumental jamming freakouts influenced by both

Krautrock Krautrock (also called , German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It originated among artists who blended elements of psychedelic rock, avant-garde composition, and electron ...

and psychedelic

funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the ...

.""The S.P.A.C.E.R.O.C.K.E.R.’s Guide to Julian Cope"
(Aural Innovations magazine #23, April 2003) The album was available as mail-order only.Head Heritage - Story of the Drude
Retrieved 6 March 2018

Track listing

Personnel

– piano, keyboards, synthesizer, cover photography *

– organ, electric piano, clavinet, drums, producer, recording engineer * Rooster Cosby – guitar, bass * J.D. Hassinger – drums, drum machine, keyboards * The William Stukeley Quintet – string arrangements on "Amethysteria" * Paul Corkett – recording engineer * Rob Carter – art, design *Quinner – back cover photography * Seb Shelton – executive producer

References

External links

''Rite'' on Discogs.com
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