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Watchful

by Amoeba

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    This album came out originally on the Lektronic Soundscapes label in 1997, then again on Release/Relapse in 1999. Later, we purchased back the remaining inventory when the label decided to trim their catalog. Currently we have about 500 remaining (as of 2016), and we will not reprint them when they eventually sell out. If you want an autograph, please request it at the time of purchase.

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1.
Inside 04:57
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Skin 02:53
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Origami 02:12
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Footless 05:14
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Water Vapor 02:12
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Desolation 04:39
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Big Clouds 02:51
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Saragossa 04:08
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Amoeba - Watchful

A diffuse sort of pop music, hypnotic, melodic, melancholy, with references to Robert Wyatt, Nick Drake, Cocteau Twins, and the last two indescribable Talk Talk albums. Alternative Press: 5/5 - Essential

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Alternative Press: rated 5/5 - Essential: "Sounding vaguely like Robert Wyatt on Valium: music for life-weary somnambulists. Embracing the meloncholy that lingers just beyond the thin veil of hope, the songs on Watchful linger in the netherworld of sinking memory and damaged dreams... This is a superb and unusual album that mesmerizes and engulfs. (Mark Burbey)

(Brent Wilcox): AMOEBA is the haunting, beautiful work of Robert Rich and Rick Davies. Robert Rich is well known in the ambient/electronica world for the attention he gives sonic details in his solo soundscapes, and he brings that ear here to an album of -- essentially -- pop music. It's a diffuse sort of pop music, surprisingly difficult to describe. Relaxed but carefully detailed, hypnotic, melodic, a bit melancholy. There's a small, growing sub-genre out there, of pop music that creates mood with pauses and silences, noises and textures -- reference points go back to Robert Wyatt and Nick Drake, or forward to Cocteau Twins, Durrutti Column, Dead Can Dance and especially the last two indescribable Talk Talk albums. It's music that hovers around your ears, tweaking and holding your attention with fascinating details and melodies, never landing heavily. It's beautiful, but not always pretty. Often stark and threatening motifs underlay fragmentary melodies -- or tuneful moments are unwound, reconstructed as strangely-familiar alien landscapes. But it never wanders beyond accessibility, and I recommend it.

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released October 1, 1997

Robert Rich:
voice, percussion, synths, steel guitar, winds
Rick Davies:
electric and acoustic guitars, bass
Hans Christian:
cello on Skin, Saragossa, Footless
Don Swanson:
drums on Ignoring Gravity, Footless, Any Other Sky
Ivy Barry:
additional voice on Footless
Scott Wright:
soprano & alto sax on Any Other Sky

All compositions by Robert Rich and Rick Davies.
Produced and engineered by Robert Rich.
Recorded and mixed at Soundscape, Cambria, CA.
Published by Amœba Music/BMI and R. Davies/BMI.
©1996 by R.Rich & R. Davies.

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Robert Rich California

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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