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Yearning

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I'm not sure I would rate this as one of the best ambient recordings ever (I don't even think it's one of Rich's best efforts), but the material on it *is* different, engaging, and ideally meditative fare. The concept of the project is perhaps the most interesting part of it: an attempt to extract the slow, introductory part of the raga called the "alap" from its usual role and recast it as a stand-alone kind of ambient or trance music. In this effort Moskow provides a wandering, ethereal, Eno-like kind of play on the sarod over Rich's electronics and multi-instrumental backings. There are six parts to the cd, each of about ten minutes in length, but the division seems superfluous: here is one case where the thirty second samples of cuts one hears on services like Amazon's pretty much tell you the whole of what you can expect from the rest. I sense on this basis that this cd will either take its listener by storm (as it apparently did the other reviewers here), or produce a kind of effect that will lead to a couple of quick plays followed by permanent dust-collecting on the shelf.

This record is easily the best work I've heard from Robert Rich. Its deep, meditative, a seemless soundscape of beauty and imagination.

This record is as good as the other great ambient records of the last 20 years: Ambient 4 On Land (by Brian Eno), The Magnificent Void (Steve Roach), and Ambient 2 (Herald Budd and Brian Eno).

The music of the record is basically sound washes by Robert joined with classical Indian Sarod "solo" music by Lisa Moskow. To my mind it is a wonderful combination. The soundscapes created by Robert need the "natural" sounds of the Sarod to give them life.

Too bad this pair didn't record any more CDs.

I Love this CD. Beautiful ambient music. It has the strange quality of making me feel happy, although the music is not precisely joyful. Highly recommended, although it is strange. I think people often buy ambient music expecting something melodic. This CD is pretty much the same most of the time, but that is precisely what I was looking for, it gives you a 1 hour mood of cosmic sensuality. Listen to it first before buying it.

Seeing the beautiful album cover and the title "yearning" i just knew i was gonna like this album. The songs are invoking...i find total calm and peace listening to them. I do alot of yoga ...and this is the type of music that sets nice as background music thats not distracting... specially for meditation. sometimes i fall asleep to it too. If you are out to find spirituality, to observe your mind and thoughts and to experience bliss...this album is for you

Yearning is an ancient yet modern emotion expressed here with both ancient and modern instruments. One can almost hear the "cosmic wind" in the sound spaces of the sarod and synthesizer. Time is slowed while you listen to each haunting tone as the past and present are brought together in time. Beautiful and breathtaking. It speaks to the soul.

We were turned on to this album by our dear friends Wes Mahatt and Sonia Head. Within moments of putting on this beautiful album we were transported to a different and higher level of consciousness where we found the inner depths of our being were on a sublime journey to the outer limits of the third bardo.

I don't know if this was a good or bad recording.Actually,I don't have much opinion one way or the other.The whole album sounded like one piece of music stretched out for an hour.I listened to it 4 or 5 times,never got anything out of it,and traded it off.If this is what is called <Ambient>I don't think I'll be spending more time or money on it.