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	RAINBOW SERPENT - Live @ Liphook 2007 (cd)


	RAINBOW SERPENT / FANGER & SCHöNWäLDER - Elektrik Cowboys (cd)


	RAMP - Debris (cd)


	RAMP - Doombient.Three – Kalte Sterne (cd-r)


	RAMP - Looking Back in Anger – a decade of misfits '96- (cd)


	RAMP - Oughtibridge (cd)


	RAPHAEL - Angels of the Deep (cd)


	RASAL.ASAD - Asuna (cd)


	RASAL.ASAD - Space.Scape (cd)


	JULIAN RAY - Argonauts of Kosmos (cd-r)


	COLIN RAYMENT - Continental Divide (cd-r)


	REALTIME - Lights of the Universe (cd-r)


	GILES REAVES WITH AASHID HIMMONS - The Deep End (cd-r)


	GILES REAVES - Sea of Glass (cd)


	GILES REAVES - Wunjo (cd)


	UWE RECKZEH - Altitude 30000 (cd-r)


	UWE RECKZEH - Unnatural Light (cd)


	REDSHIFT - Last (cd)


	REDSHIFT - Turning Towards Us (cd)


	REDSHIFT - Wild 3 (cd)


	THE REDUNDANT ROCKER - Heart (cd)


	KEVIN REES - Pools of Instability (cd-r)


	REMANENCE - A Strange Constellation of Events (cd-r)


	REMOTE SPACES - Silos (cd-r)


	REMOTION - Between Fiction and Reality (cd)


	REMY - EoD (cd)


	REMY - Exhibition of Dreams (10th anniversary edition) (cd)


	REMY - This Is Not The End (cd)


	RESONANT DRIFT - Flow Mingled Down (cd)


	RESONANT DRIFT - Resonant Drift (cd-r)


	RESONANT DRIFT - The Call (cd)


	MARKUS REUTER & ROBERT RICH - Eleven Questions (cd)


	MARKUS REUTER & [‘RAMP] - Ceasing to Exist (cd)


	REVIVAL - The Longest Dream (cd)


	ROBERT RICH & FARYUS - Zerkalo (cd)


	ROBERT RICH & IAN BODDY - Lithosphere (cd)


	ROBERT RICH & IAN BODDY - React (cd)


	ROBERT RICH & STEVE ROACH - Strata (cd)


	ROBERT RICH - Atlas Dei (dvd)


	ROBERT RICH - Calling Down The Sky (cd)


	ROBERT RICH - Echo of Small Things (cd)


	ROBERT RICH - Electric Ladder (cd)


	ROBERT RICH - Humidity (cd)


	ROBERT RICH - Michael Somoroff’s Illumination (cd)


	ROBERT RICH - Open Window (cd)


	ROBERT RICH - Trances/Drones (cd)


	ROBERT RICH - Ylang (cd)


	RICOCHET GATHERING - Keep On (cd)


	RISING STAR - ...By Imagination (cd-r)


	RISING STAR - Totally Space (cd-r)


	STEVE ROACH & ERIK WøLLO - Stream of Thought (cd)


	STEVE ROACH & MARK SEELIG - Nightbloom (cd)


	STEVE ROACH & ROBERT RICH - Soma (cd)


	STEVE ROACH & VIDNA OBMANA - Cavern of Sirens (cd)


	STEVE ROACH & VIDNA OBMANA - Spirit Dome/Live Archive (cd)


	STEVE ROACH & VIR UNIS - Body Electric (cd)


	STEVE ROACH, BYRON METCALF & MARK SEELIG - Mantram (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - A Deeper Silence (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Afterlight (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - All is Now (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Arc of Passion (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Darkest before Dawn (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Destination Beyond (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Dynamic Stillness (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Empetus (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Fever Dreams (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Fever Dreams III (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Holding the Space: Fever Dreams II (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Immersion: Four (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Immersion: One (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Immersion: Three (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Immersion: Two (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Kairos (dvd)


	STEVE ROACH - Landmass (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Life Sequence (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Live at Grace Cathedral (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - New Life Dreaming (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - On this Planet (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Places Beyond: The Lost Pieces 4 (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Possible Planet (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Proof Positive (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Pure Flow (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Quiet Music (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Sigh of Ages (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Slow Heat (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Storm Surge - live at Nearfest- (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Stormwarning (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - Structures from Silence (cd)


	STEVE ROACH - The Magnificent Void (cd)


	HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS & TIM STORY - Inlandish (cd)


	ROGIER - From the Shadow to the Sun (cd)


	ROMERIUM - Pharaoh’s Immortality (cd)


	THOMAS RONKIN - Symmetric (cd)


	THOMAS RONKIN - Within; Distance (cd)


	JOHN ROSE - Cosmogenesis (cd-r)


	STEVE ROSE - Twin Earth: Collected Ambient Works (cd-r)


	WALTER CHRISTIAN ROTHE AND FRIENDS - Centillion 303 (cd-r)


	WALTER CHRISTIAN ROTHE AND FRIENDS - Two for Green: Bulgaria (cd-r)


	WALTER CHRISTIAN ROTHE - One Night in Paris (cd-r)


	MARK ROWND - Painting Twilight (cd)


	PRZEMYSłAW RUDź - Cosmocological Tales (cd)


	PRZEMYSłAW RUDź - Summa Technologiae (cd)

ROBERT RICH & IAN BODDY
Lithosphere
CD, DiN, 2005

This is the second collaborative album of Rich & Boddy, released as a limited edition of 2000 copies. It’s the outcome of ten days of hard work in Rich’s studio.

Compared to its predecessor "Outpost", the sound and overall feel of the new album is more organic, energetic and down to earth.
So expect some great lap steel guitar, powerful bass murmurs, string and woodwind loops and lots of sampled ingredients. They are fused utilising an alternate just intonation tuning which sometimes has a slight experimental edge.
An excellent track is e.g."Chamber", in my view a typical Rich-composition featuring melancholic, hovering textures over a light sequence while the analogue intro of "Subduction" definitely holds the Boddy trademark before Rich’s melancholy fades in.

"Lithophere" is a well crafted piece of work lasting 52 minutes which heads for new borders, visiting darker and lighter but always innovative corners of ambient music. Nicely done guys!

Website: www.DiN.org.uk