| Numena | ||||
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| Studio album by Robert Rich | ||||
| Released | 1987 | |||
| Recorded | 1985–86 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.
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.