Robert Rich - Numena/Geometry

Title: Numena/Geometry Artist: Robert Rich Release Date: 1997 Re-Released On: 5/20/1997 Label: Fathom Duration: 120:53 Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPC: 025041107723 Genre: Electronica Styles: Progressive Electronic, Ambient Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 2

1. The Other Side of Twilight
2. Moss Dance
3. Numen
4. The Walled Garden

1. Primes, Pt. 1
2. Primes, Pt. 2
3. Interlocking Circles
4. Geometry of the Skies
5. Nesting Ground
6. Geomancy
7. Amrita (Water of Life)
8. Logos

Year Type Label Catalog # 1997 CD Fathom 11077

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This Fathom reissue of two early Robert Rich releases makes a handy companion to the composer's more fully formed recent work (particularly the dark ambient albums A Troubled Resting Place and Stalker). Although the albums are very different from one another, their respective foci -- Numena's psycho-acoustical organicism, Geometry's sense of melodic symmetry and balance -- combine as the two guiding principles of most of Rich's composing throughout his career. As a whole, Geometry has aged the least gracefully of the two, inflected as it is with a by now new age-y melodicism that detracts from the less specific grouping of the album's lush textural support. Numena, however, sounds as focused and exploratory as it did when it was recorded; remarkable, since over a decade has passed. ~ Sean Cooper, All Music Guide

Name Credits Bob Olhsson Mastering Ferenc Dobronyi Design Robert Rich Lap Steel Guitar, Zither, Mallets, Liner Notes, Flute, Engineer, Kalimba, Remastering, ?, Percussion, Mastering, Ocarina, Mixing Stephen Hill Mastering, Art Direction, Photography Steve Roach Mixing