On this essential album Robert Rich reprises the "sleep concert" format that made him famous, so the music is both wonderfully relaxing and perpetually fascinating. There's a lot going on in this material--layer after layer of swirling textures and tones. It's so mesmerizing, in fact, that you'll find yourself startled if one of the pieces is interrupted prematurely: Rich has a talent for finding the mind's natural rhythms, which means that the music naturally steers you toward a mysterious and deeply satisfying state of equilibrium. CD 1 features the trances side of the Trances-Drones dyad.
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[hifilofi] 01-Cave Paintings (23:52)
[hifilofi] 02-Hayagriva (25:12)
[hifilofi] 03-Sunyata (Emptiness) (22:48)