Numena
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| Studio album by Robert Rich | |||||
| Released | 1987 | ||||
| Recorded | 1985-1986 in Palo Alto, California | ||||
| Genre | Ambient | ||||
| Length | 53:14 | ||||
| Label | Multimood | ||||
| Producer | Robert Rich | ||||
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Numena (1987) is an album by the American ambient musician Robert Rich. This is the most active solo album Rich had released by this time. It features the use of a variety of acoustic percussion instruments and just intonation for the first time in Rich’s career.
The longest and most complicated track on the album is a piece called “The Other Side of Twilight”. It consists of two movements, each with a different gamelan inspired electronic sequence and natural ambience.
This is also the first Robert Rich album to be originally released on compact disc. In 1997 Numena was bound in a two disc set with the album Geometry.
[edit] Note
Prior to the release of this album a shorter alternate version of “The Other Side of Twilight” was broadcast on the National Public Radio program Music from the Hearts of Space.
[edit] Track listing
- ”The Other Side of Twilight” - 25:04
- ”Moss Dance” - 5:40
- ”Numen” - 11:51
- ”The Walled Garden” - 10:31
