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Filaments

by Robert Rich

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hieronymous
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hieronymous This album is so wonderful. Meditations on consciousness and existence - scientific insights manifesting as music. Telomere asks questions about time and mortality - maybe the whole album does? Favorite track: Telomere.
rikm
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rikm Robert Rich has always had an excellent grasp of organic elements in his work, a solid understanding of natural sounds and field recordings that pair seamlessly with what he generates electronically. That understanding is applied beautifully on "Filaments", resulting in a perfect synthesis of natural and synth-based tones.

Truly an excellent release...
Televiper
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Televiper Robert Rich attains further heights of electronic music mastery. Favorite track: Aetherfields.
tamahome
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tamahome I like these more active albums. I associate this with Neurogenesis. Favorite track: Scintilla.
Richard Gürtler
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Richard Gürtler "Filaments" album is another proof of Robert Rich's musical superiority and a tremendously essential addition to his already glorious discography. Each of his new releases is worth the wait, no matter how long it takes. This album is, as always, filled with Robert's many signature sounds, even without his flute artistry this time, and trademarking perfection is displayed in every single detail of this album. Aural and visual thrill is served here in huge doses!!!
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1.
Filaments 04:58
2.
Majorana 10:45
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Scintilla 03:47
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Aetherfields 05:22
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Entangled 10:54
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Eulalia 05:43
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Laniakea 03:53
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Aetherfolds 03:53
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Telomere 09:58

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Inspired by our latest forays in cosmology and the constant search to understand our place in the vastness. Shimmering, pulsating, woven patterns of electrical filagree echo hidden structures that permeate our Universe.

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An artist engaged in producing compelling music, Robert Rich's ears are attuned to frequencies of nature as equally as they are to those of the electronic. Containing nine tracks, each uniquely glowing with a self-generated light, the CD Filaments (59'16") is Rich's audible carrier of contemplative messages. His clear steel guitar voice, foregrounded over driving tone patterns, easily activates our mental mechanics. Beneath cavernous reverberations, ghostly traces of sound writhe in shadowland interludes. Within the slow burning, controlled drama of brief quietude, spacey chording rises in chilling synthesizer shades. It is here that simpler flute motifs are permitted to evoke their own sonic poetry. Filaments features an abundance of music built on Rich's exotic rhythmic principles. Within this zone we find mounting kinetic realizations unfurling like a gorgeous dream - with the meticulous braiding of twinned sequencer lines engaged in elevating the thoughts of the listener. Filaments can be exhilarating, with the thrill of this album found in its lingering appeal. It may not be something for everyday listening, but it is there when we really need it. Humans find it hard to articulate the Now, so Robert Rich concerns himself with everything else. In a great structure of thought he has conjured an idealized world of sound where Spacemusic, New Age and the Avant-Garde all share a common spirit. Few musicians reach as high as Robert Rich does. A masterful and skillful work, Filaments will impress STAR'S END listeners, but aims for an effect beyond logic.

- Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END 9 April 2015

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released January 15, 2015

Recorded 2012-2014 by Robert Rich at Soundscape, Mountain View, CA.
Mixed and mastered in Autumn 2014. © 2014 by Robert Rich, BMI. Instruments include MOTM and Euro modular, DSI P12 and Pro2, Lap Steel Guitars (by Todd Plummer and Morrell), Korg Wavestatiion and M3, zither, piano, Eowave Ribbon and Resonator, various other instruments. Thanks to many, including Synthesis Technology, Dave Smith Instruments, 2C Audio, Izotope, Old Crow, STG, Ableton, and of course Dixie.

Front cover painting “Luminary” © Nad Wolinska, inside painting “Three Spheres Reflecting Upon Each Other” © Daniel Cake, used with permission and gratitude. “Luminary” photo by Christian Tanimoto III.

Design and layout by John Bergin.

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Robert Rich has helped define ambient and electronic music, with over 50 albums across five decades. Rich began building his own analog modular synthesizers in 1976, when he was 13, and later studied computer music at Stanford's CCRMA while researching lucid dreaming. Rich performs and lectures worldwide. His all-night Sleep Concerts have become legendary. ... more

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