A Troubled Resting Place

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A Troubled Resting Place

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  • Artist: Robert Rich
  • Rating: StarStarStarHalf Star
  • Release Date: 1996
  • Total Time: 65:53
  • Type: Compilation (best of)
  • Genre: Electronica

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A collection of hard-to-find solo outings previously released on small-run labels such as Amplexus and Side Effects, A Troubled Resting Place showcases some of the finest examples of Rich's open-ended, penetrating approach to music. A slightly restive, alien feel permeates the album's tracks, thanks to Rich's use of just intonation in his compositions and the mix of flutes, steel guitar, incidental noise and synths in his arrangements on tracks like "Bioelectric Plasma." Reminiscent of Stalker, the calm austerity of A Troubled Resting Place explores Rich's use of music as a possibility, not as an end in itself. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi

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A Troubled Resting Place

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A Troubled Resting Place
Compilation album by Robert Rich
Released 1996
Recorded January 1993 – July 1995 at Soundscape Studio
Genre Ambient
Length 65:52
Label Fathom/Hearts of Space Records
Producer Robert Rich
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Robert Rich chronology
Stalker
(1995)
A Troubled Resting Place
(1996)
Fissures
(1997)

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 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

  1. ”The Simorgh Sleeps on Velvet Tongues” – 10:14
    (Originally released on The Throne of Drones, 1995.)
  2. ”Calling by Stormlight” – 5:10
    (Originally released on Twilight Earth II, 1995.)
  3. ”Buoyant on Motionless Deluge” – 8:00
    (Originally released on Swarm of Drones, 1995.)
  4. ”Bioelectric Plasma” – 16:42
    (Originally released on DeepNet, 1996.)
  5. ”Black Skies” – 5:19
    (Originally released on The Promises of Silences, 1993)
  6. ”Night Sky Replies”
    1. ”A Ripple of Sand” – 3:22
    2. ”Night Spinning Inward” – 6:28
    3. A Wheel Questions the Ground” – 7:10
    4. ”The Night Sky Replies” – 4:20
    (Originally released on Night Sky Replies, 1994)

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