Electric Ladder
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Electric Ladder is an album by the American
ambient
musician Robert Rich
. This album returns to a more active and sequenced
style that Rich explored in Geometry (1991) and Gaudí
(1991).
United States
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ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
musician Robert Rich
Robert Rich (musician)
Robert Rich is an ambient musician and composer based in California, United States. With a discography spanning over 30 years, he is widely regarded as a figure whose sound has greatly influenced today's ambient, New Age, and even IDM music.-Early life:At an early age he thought he disliked music...
. This album returns to a more active and sequenced
Music sequencer
The music sequencer is a device or computer software to record, edit, play back the music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically :...
style that Rich explored in Geometry (1991) and Gaudí
Gaudí (Robert Rich)
Gaudí is an album by the U.S. ambient musician Robert Rich. It is a tribute to the Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí...
(1991).
Track listing
- ”Electric Ladder” – 10:32
- ”Shadowline” – 8:45
- ”Poppy Fields” – 7:16
- ”Sky Tunnel” – 9:05
- ”Concentric” – 6:27
- ”Aquifer” – 6:42
- ”Never Alone” – 6:29
Personnel
- Robert Rich – MOTM modular synthesizerModular synthesizerThe modular synthesizer is a type of synthesizer consisting of separate specialized modules connected by wires to create a so-called patch. Every output generates a signal – an electric voltage of variable strength...
, sculpture, TimewARPARP Instruments, Inc.ARP Instruments, Inc. was an American manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, founded by Alan Robert Pearlman in 1969. Best known for its line of synthesizers that emerged in the early 1970s, ARP closed its doors in 1981 due to financial difficulties...
2600, Metasynth, Wavestation, lap steel guitarLap steel guitarThe lap steel guitar is a type of steel guitar, an instrument derived from and similar to the guitar. The player changes pitch by pressing a metal or glass bar against the strings instead of by pressing strings against the fingerboard....
s, flutes - Paul Hanson – bassoon and soprano saxophone (tracks 3 and 4)
- Haroun Serang – acoustic guitar (track 5)