Robert Rich & Ian Boddy - Lithosphere.nfo
GENERAL INFORMATION
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Album: Lithosphere
Artist: Robert Rich & Ian Boddy
Year: 2005
Genre: New Age / Electronic / Ambient
DESCRIPTION
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Convening once again at Robert Rich's Soundscape studio, Rich and Ian Boddy set to work creating this, their second album. Although an obvious follow-up to the pair's first collaborative set, Outpost, Lithosphere is far removed from its spacier predecessor. This time around, the two men created a fabulously warm and much more organic album, so much so that many of the pieces seem to bubble up or pour forth from the earth itself. "Chamber," however, almost rustles, Rich's lap steel guitar melody wafting in the breeze, gusting around Boddy's luminescent keyboards, the two creating shimmering harmonies, while the latter man's xylophonic rhythms patter below. The harmonics are positively iridescent on "Glass," as fragile and elegantly etched as Venetian glass itself. "Subduction," in contrast, hones in on rhythmic elements, which bubble, boil, and roil, while foreboding chords sweep above, the sound of magma shifting and lava readying to spew forth. "Geode" perfectly captures the beauty of the crystalline center and rock encrusted coating of its real life counterpart. "Stone"'s intro creates the sound of grinding, shifting rock, then magnificently conjures up an epochal atmosphere that tantalizingly suggests the millenniums passing as the earth plate's slowly shift. The title track takes the pair closest to their spacier wanderings of yore, across a piece that spins forth with a serene lightness and grace, propelled by the ripples of percussive elements, and swept by the rich and blissful melody that soars above. Superbly earth-bound, Lithosphere reflects virtually all the world's building blocks, mirroring the natural forces constantly at work beneath our feet. They go unnoticed, until, of course, a catastrophic event occurs, but Rich and Boddy are intrigued not by the explosive power of our environment, but the incremental changes too subtle for us to see. And it's these they present in such an evocative aural form here. An eye-opening journey of stunning proportions. - Jo-Ann Greene
http://www.allmusic.com/album/lithosphere-mw0001040940
FILE INFORMATION
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Number of Tracks: 10 [the tracks are not separated]
NOTE: I just posted the lossless version of this in alt.binaries.sounds.lossless.new-age, and there is a cue file with that post ;^)
Total Duration: 52:44
Total Size: 120 MBs (including scan, and nfo)
Parity Archive: Yes, 7%
Ripped By: NMR
Files Created on: NMR
Ripped With: NMR
Encoded At: 320 CBR / 44.1 KHz
ID3 Tags: Yes
NFO Created: 13 December 2014
Tracklist
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01) Threshold
02) Vent
03) Chamber
04) Glass
05) Subduction
06) Geode
07) Stone
08) Metamorphic
09) Lithosphere
10) Melt
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