Rich, Robert

Artist: Steve Roach & Robert Rich
P: 1992    
Like the wild mushrooms that fungus enthusiast Robert Rich turns into gourmet dishes, the pieces on Soma seem to emanate directly from the ground, without belonging to any species hitherto defined. New Age? Nah. Ambient? Not exactly. Fungoid tribal trance? Maybe. Rich, the drone provocateur who invented the "sleep concert" in the early '80s, and Roach, proto-ambient pioneer whose Dreamtime Return remains a classic of organic New Age, distill a potent nectar of heartbeat-paced percussion--including rain sticks, clay water pots, kalimbas, and sequenced drums--and reverberant flutes, didgeridoos, and canyon-sized synthesizers. More rhythmically active than either the Roach-Vidna Obmana duet Well of Souls or early Roach electronica like Traveller, Soma--named for the Vedic potion said to deliver the drinker to God--is a Southwest vision quest that suggests Terence McKenna's psilocybin-mushroom theories: a connection to the very soul of the earth through ethno-botanical ingestion. Bottoms up. While STRATA, the first collaboration between Steve Roach and Robert Rich, sought to peel away the substratum layers of the inner consciousness, SOMA attempts to reconcile those emotions with the outer world through a wondrous, gripping corpus of sound. Here, Roach and Rich perform a stunning series of lively, aural mosaics that are like musical puzzle boxes with hundreds of oddly colored pieces. It is as if they tore up the veneer of the desert itself and constructed these sounds out of the earth's very natural fiber. Like the best free jazz improvisers, Roach and Rich intuitively communicate their separate identities into one collective whole. Another brilliant collaboration from two higly prolific and accomplished artists.

Artist: Steve Roach & Robert Rich
P: 1990    
Aural archaeologists Rich and Steve Roach delve deep into the strata of the primordial mind in this acclaimed 1990 collaboration. They forge a symbiotic artistic alliance where their signature sonic motifs are generally abandoned for the sake of a collective sound. Implementing their combined arsenal of synths, samplers, flutes, drums, and steel guitar, the duo creates a variety of moods and atmospheres--serene ambiences ("The Grotto of Time Lost"), ritualistic, rhythmic invocations ("Fearless"), intense dark ambient spaces ("Magma"), and surreal, bubbling soundscapes ("Persistence of Memory [For Dali]"). As with their other works, the composers utilize a balanced blend of organic and electronic instrumentation in an exploration of the human psyche that is simultaneously primal and cerebral. This album was a critical and commercial success, remaining on the Billboard New Age charts for several months after its initial release.

Artist: Sverre Knut Johansen & Robert Rich
P: 2019
Sverre Knut Johansen turns back the clock, peering into the distant past on his fourth Spotted Peccary release, PRECAMBRIAN. Focusing his conceptual musical lens on the prehistoric development of planet Earth and its inhabitants, Johansen is joined by noted electronic music maestro and soundscape pioneer Robert Rich to create a deeply compelling ambient-electronic odyssey that serves as a virtual soundseeing tour through our planet’s vivid history.

Each track on PRECAMBRIAN takes the listener through significant geological periods and evolutionary events of Earth’s 4.6 billion year history, bringing the epochs and eons to life through musical poetry and recorded natural sounds. The sonic landscapes, both organic and electronic, are always deep and captivating, evolving through abstract amorphous spaces, peaceful harmonious moods, and dramatic eventful moments.

Artist: Robert Rich, Steve Roach, u.a.
P: 1991
Live performances recorded in the artists' homes exclusively for Echoes, a nightly music soundscape on public radio.


Here the last copy!

Artist: RMI, Robert Rich, BK&S u.a.
P: 2015
LTD
This album contains music from the performing artists on the B-Wave Festival. Some tracks were never released before. This Ltd Cd was only sold at the festival.

Here the last copy with an additional book of the festival 2017!

Artist: Robert Rich,Shulman,
Krusseldorf u.a.
P: 2010
Aleph Zero wants to welcome you to our Dark Room. Three years of meticulous work it took us to design the room's sonic surroundings. With the help of some of our leading artists such as Shulman, Hibernation, Omnimotion, Eitan Reiter (hosting label head DJ Shahar), Vataff Project, Krusseldorf, and Aligning Minds and very distinguished guests as the legendary Robert Rich, minimal techno masters Minilogue, Good Rester (aka Fognode), I Awake, Ovnimoon and others, we've created an autonomous sonic space with various electronic and acoustic textures and beats. Come relaxed and open minded, turn off the lights, and let us take you somewhere else without ever leaving your room.

Artist: V/A
P: 1999
Universe compiles the fall 1999 releases by the US Hearts of Space label.

Artist: V/A
P: 1992
Universe compiles the fall 1992 releases by the US Hearts of Space label.

Artist: Van Zyl, Rich, Rapoon u.a.
P: 2011
LTD 300
One Thousand Pulses, Northeast New Jersey's premier home concert series for electronic & experimental music, presents its first compilation. Home Patterning highlights some of OTP's finest moments, extracted from a year-and-a-half of unique and special performances. These nine new & unreleased works, set down live in the OTP soundspace, are exclusive pieces of music forged by the artists in the moment, now made available to a wider audience. Like the live events themselves, these works whittle away neatly-defined categorical boundaries to instead focus on each of their artist's particular brand of sound and vision.

Artist: R.Rich, M.Stearns, Alio Die u.a.
P: 2001
Best Of Hearts of Space artists from the 80s and 90s.