On the Third Extreme

Richard Burmer (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 20, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: American Gramaphone
• ASIN: B000008DVL
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #267,835 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars bogeyman, June 25, 2007

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C. White (San Clemente, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On the Third Extreme (Audio CD)

From the first time I heard Richard Burmer on "Mosaic" back in the mid-eigties, I've loved his music. Rich, beautifuly haunting and cerebral. I've listened to a lot of "New Age" or as I prefer to say, Electronicaly treated music. I bought this album at a used record store back in the early ninties and it sat in my CD rack for nearly 10 years, as I only bothered to listen to the first couple of tracks, which were fairly unremarkable. One day, around the Y2K, I was listening to a local jazz, new age station on the radio and they played the last portion of this Album, and it was one of the best sequences in electronic music I have ever heard. Little did I know I was listening to an Album I already owned. "On the Third Extreme" is Richard Burmer's best kept secret, and don't just listen to the first 2 tracks and put it aside like I did. If you like R.B., you'll love this album!!

5.0 out of 5 stars Waking the Icons, September 21, 2010

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Chill Fan (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: On the Third Extreme (Audio CD)

I agree with the other reviewer. The better tracks on this album are on the second half. I've seen a lot of new age music come and go. But, the last track, Waking the Icons, remains of my all-time favourites.

5.0 out of 5 stars Sacred Shaman Geometry, October 11, 2009

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S.W. Tripper (Albuquerque,NM USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: On the Third Extreme (Audio CD)

In this writer's opinion, Richard Burmer's works will be seen as an important legacy to esoteric studies. His abilities to produce such beautiful music while battling his own personal demons of depression is perhaps overlooked by some. Nonetheless, I feel his contributions are of lasting importance. On the Third Extreme is still as enjoyable as when it was initially released. Here we feel beautiful, flowing, meditative melodies, enabling us space to lie back and discover the delicate balance of going within for a deeper understanding of self and meeting the challenge of contention in the hectic marketplace all too often considered as "reality". Intrinsically simplistic traveling music designed to allow a freedom previously unknown. Long live Richard Burmer, through his spiritual connection to a plateau overlooking a much larger metaphysical paradigm, a window of sorts of what is yet to come.