Temple of the Invisible (2003) 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...

. This was Rich’s first exclusively acoustic album. For this project, Rich brought together a number of guest performers with a variety of rare ethnic instruments. The concept of the album is to simulate an ancient ceremony from an unknown civilization.

Track listing

1. ”Etranon” – 3:20
2. ”Antalieh” – 7:13
3. ”Pa Tanak” – 7:51
4. ”Jibral” – 4:13
5. ”Fasanina” – 10:42
6. ”Tulcrhu” – 9:39
7. ”Lan Tiku” – 9:42
8. ”Otranon” – 7:05

Personnel

• Robert Rich – percussion, flutes, zither
• Sukhawat Ali Khan
  Sukhawat Ali Khan
  Sukhawat Ali Khan, son of Indian-Pakistani vocalist Ustad Salamat Ali Khan and nephew of Nazakat Ali Khan, is a classical singer Sham Chorasi gharana tradition, as well as a performer of North Indian and Pakistani classical music and related folk music. He began singing and playing the harmonium...
  
   – voice
• Forrest Fang – bağlama
  Baglama
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  , guzheng
  Guzheng
  The guzheng or "gu zheng", also called zheng is a Chinese plucked zither. It has 18-23 or more strings and movable bridges....
  
  
• Paul Hanson – bombard
  Bombard (music)
  The bombard, also known as talabard or ar vombard in the Breton language or bombarde in French, is a contemporary conical bore double reed instrument widely used to play traditional Breton music. The bombard is a woodwind instrument; the reed is held between the lips. The bombard is a member of the...
  
  , bassoon
  Bassoon
  The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...
  
  
• Tom Heasley – voice, conch
  Conch (musical instrument)
  Conch, or conque, is a musical instrument, a wind instrument that is made from a seashell, the shell of one of several different kinds of very large sea snail...
  
  
• Percy Howard – voice

External links

• album feature from Robert Rich’s official web site