Trances/Drones

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Trances/Drones

Compilation album by Robert Rich
Released	1994
Recorded	December 19, 1981 in Menlo Park, California, 1981 in Palo Alto, California, January 31, 1983 at Stanford University, April, 1983 at Stanford University, July 17, 1983 in Encinada, Mexico, August 20, 1983 in Menlo Park, California, November, 1983 and December 17, 1983 at Stanford University
Genre	Ambient
Length	141:11
Label	Extreme Records
Producer(s)	Robert Rich
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Robert Rich chronology
Propagation (1994)	Trances/Drones (1994)	Night Sky Replies (1994)
Alternate cover

2000 re-release.

Trances/Drones (1994) is an album by the American ambient musician Robert Rich. It is a two-disc compilation of Rich’s albums Trances (1983) and Drones (1983) plus other material that was recorded during that time.

Disc one contains the album Trances, plus the title track from Rich’s 1982 debut Sunyata. At the time this compilation was released, Sunyata was only available in its original 86 minute cassette release and had been out of print for several years. When the album Sunyata was rereleased in 2000 on compact disc, this title track was omitted because of the CDs 74 minute length restriction.

Disc two contains the album Drones, plus a previously unreleased track titled “Resonance”. It was recorded at Stanford University on January 31, 1983. The liner notes describe this piece as an “acoustic room resonance derived from delayed feedback.”