Bestiary (Robert Rich album)
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| Released | 2001 | |||
| Genre | Ambient, electronic, experimental[1] | |||
| Length | 53:09 | |||
| Label | Relapse Records | |||
| Producer | Robert Rich | |||
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Bestiary (2001) is an album by the American ambient musician Robert Rich. This album showcases the musical concept that Rich has long referred to as “glurp”. It evokes a frenetic and surreal landscape inhabited by a wide variety of bizarre organisms.
Work on this album began while Rich was working to create a library of
Cubase
program. It was then assembled into a continuous 53 minute audio file.
Track listing
All tracks by Robert Rich
- ”Mantis Intentions” – 8:00
- ”Nesting on Cliffsides” – 12:46
- ”Dante’s Anthropomorphic Zoo” – 3:06
- ”Bestiary” – 6:17
- ”Carapace Hides the Delicacy” – 3:12
- ”Folded Space” – 5:34
- ”Sharpening Her Talons” – 3:51
- ”Premonition of Circular Clouds” – 10:21
Personnel
- Robert Rich – MOTM modular synthesizer, lap steel guitar, processed acoustic sources, “glurp”
- Forrest Fang – Marxolin (track 3), hichiriki (track 8)
- Andrew McGowan – bass (tracks 3 and 5)
- Haroun Serang – guitar (tracks 1 and 7)
