Stalker

Robert Rich, Rich/Lustmord | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 14, 1995)
• Original Release Date: November 21, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hearts of Space
• ASIN: B000000X73
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,891 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible!, July 17, 2000

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"reducing_element" (Ballwin, MO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stalker (Audio CD)

I am a huge fan of the movie Stalker and i was enthused to hear that two artists have collaborated to create a cd inspired by the movie. I did not know of what genre the two artists would be, but upon further investigation i found them both to be the dark ambient classification. That said, i bought this cd, and was blown away by how acuratelt they captured the movies atmosphere of desolation, instilled apathy, and "greyness". You do not have to be a fan of the movie to enjoy this cd, it stands on it's own as a classic in the Ambient genre, and it's a great cd to space out to, or take a nap to..i highly recomend this cd to people who appriciate wonderfully crafted ambient and darkwave.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars DARKNESS AND POWER, July 22, 2003

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Larry L. Looney (Austin, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stalker (Audio CD)

Ive got other recordings by both of these artists  so far this is my favorite from each of them. The music on this disc is very, very dark  dont expect anything else going into it. That statement is not meant in the least to imply, however that this work is one-dimensional  nothing could be further from the truth. This is creativity of staggering proportions, black washes of keyboards and other instruments (and voices, I think) that combine into music that is simultaneously beautiful and frightening in its intensity. Its not noise  theres a definite structure to the works included here  the breadth of its conception and execution is such that it can be enjoyed ambiently as well as attentively. For those listeners already familiar with the works of these artists as individuals, its easy to hear the two different personalities present in this disc  this is truly a case of the whole being greater than the sum of the parts (and thats saying a lot, because their work as individuals is excellent).

The music was inspired  at least in spirit  by the Russian film of the same name, but its certainly not necessary to view that film to appreciate this recording. From the back cover: A guide to possible interpretations on an ambivalent reality; a non-Euclidian geometry as yet unmapped, inaccessible through linear perceptions; to illuminate, decode and decipher this landscape of fractured density, ultimately to reconstruct these unfolding dimensions, where dreams are only whispers. It does all that and more. As I stated above, it can be experienced in an ambient way  but I recommend listening to it at fairly high volume on a nice system.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Soundtrack to the void and flares of emptiness, June 26, 2006

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yorgos dalman "yorgos dalman" (Holland, Europe) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Stalker (Audio CD)

That the collaboration of two ambient acts can have astonishing results, has been proved in the recent past by Norway's Biosphere and Scotland's Higher Intelligence Agency (they made the highly admirable and unique "Polar sequences" and "Birmingham frequencies").

Now we have Lustmord, who produced such stark, creepy dark ambient albums as "Heresy" and "The place where the black stars hang", collaborating with Robert Rich on a concept album, that had the Russian film "Stalker" as source of inspiration. The Andrei Tarkovski movie, about three men entering an undefinable "forbidden zone", had a terrific soundrack of its own, by the acclaimed Russian composer Eduard Artemjew.

But although one might expect that Lustmord and Rich have a huge admiration for both the film and its original musical design, they completely went their own way with their record, producing an eerie, chilly mood and giving us a sense that something frightning is lurking in the dark.
Sizzeling sounds, diversed iron scraping noises, musical tones that sound like psychotic whispering, hollow chants, everything is in place to put our minds and sanity to the test.

But like the best (and darkest) moments of Lustmord, the music prevails. It succeeds in taking us on a journey into the unknown, into the undesirable, into a place that is filled with loathing and despair, through an all embracing sacrilegious void, and yet, pulls us out at the last moment, to let us emerge again to the surface, and give us a new sense of brightness and illumination, as though we went through some kind of musical catharsis.

Maybe. Maybe.