Humidity is an album by the American

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...

. It is a three disc set of live material recorded in 1998.

Disc one was recorded on April 2, 1998 at Stanford University

Stanford University

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’s KZSU

KZSU

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 radio station as part of their annual Day of Noise event. Disc two was recorded on May 9, 1998 at the Beyond Music Sound Festival in Venice, California. Disc three was recorded on May 10, 1998 during an in-store concert at the Moby Disc in Pasadena

Pasadena, California

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, California

California

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.

The composition for track two of disc one was originally released on the 1993 multi-artist compilation DeepNet. Track four of disc one and track five of disc three were co-composed with Brian “Lustmord

Lustmord

Brian Williams is a British electronic musician often credited for creating the dark ambient genre with albums recorded under the name Lustmord.- History :Williams started recording as Lustmord in 1980 before joining SPK in 1982...

” Williams and were originally released on Rich and Lustmord’s 1995 collaboration Stalker

Stalker (album)

Stalker is a collaborative album by ambient musicians Robert Rich and B.Lustmord . It was inspired by the 1979 film of the same name by Andrei Tarkovsky....

. Track two of disc three was originally composed for Rich’s 1994 collaboration with Lisa Moskow, Yearning. Track four of disc three is a reworking of Rich’s 1994 release Night Sky Replies

Night Sky Replies

Night Sky Replies is a limited edition mini album by the American ambient musician Robert Rich. It is a continuous 20+ minute piece divided into four movements....

. All other material on this album was improvised.

Disc one

1. ”Lost Caverns of Caryatis
   Caryatis
   In ancient Greek religion Artemis Caryatis was an epithet of Artemis that was derived from the small polis of Karyai in Laconia; there an archaic open-air temenos was dedicated to Carya, the Lady of the Nut-Tree, whose priestesses were called the caryatidai, represented on the Athenian Acropolis as...
   
   ” – 12:55
2. ”Bioelectric Plasma” – 7:33
3. ”Demilitarized Zone” – 14:16
4. ”Synergistic Perceptions” – 10:52
5. ”Ceramic Tincture” – 6:28
6. ”Submission to Pele
   Pele (mythology)
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   ” – 7:22
7. ”Humidity Toward the Troposphere” – 14:25

Disc two

1. ”Beyond Part 1” – 16:26
2. ”Beyond Part 2” – 6:43
3. ”Beyond Part 3” – 6:52
4. ”Beyond Part 4” – 6:13
5. ”Beyond Part 5” – 3:51
6. ”Beyond Part 6” – 7:14

Disc three

1. ”Steel Harmonics” – 7:45
2. ”Nada” – 6:05
3. ”Cloud Relapse” – 7:04
4. ”Nightsky Reprise” – 16:56
5. ”Hidden Refuge” – 9:02
6. ”In a Miasma of Malarial Delusions” – 15:51