Strata (album)

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Strata
Strata cover
Studio album by Robert Rich and Steve Roach
Released August 20, 1990
Recorded 1989-90 at The Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona and Soundscape Studio in Mountain View, California
Genre Ambient
Length 58:47
Label Hearts of Space Records
Producer Robert Rich and Steve Roach
Professional reviews
Robert Rich chronology
Rainforest
(1989)		 Strata
(1990)		 Gaudí
(1991)
Steve Roach chronology
Desert Solitaire
(1989)		 Strata
(1990)		 Australia: Sound of the Earth
(1990)

Strata (1990) is a collaborative album by the American ambient musicians Steve Roach and Robert Rich. Robert Rich's influence on this album is strong, with complicated mixes featuring various acoustic sound sources and Rich's own brand of organic synthesis called "glurp".

There is a strong sense of surrealism throughout the album. The track titled "Persistence of Memory" is dedicated to Salvador Dalí, who died in 1989, the year recording of this album began.

[edit] Track listing

  1. ”Fearless” - 4:32
  2. ”Mica” - 5:00
  3. ”Forever” - 4:50
  4. ”The Grotto of Time Lost” - 9:03
  5. ”Iguana” (7:23)
  6. ”Magma” (3:37)
  7. ”Persistence of Memory (for Dali)” - 5:09
  8. ”Remembrance” - 2:22
  9. ”Ceremony of Shadows” - 6:12
  10. ”La Luna” - 10:39

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