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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 & FARYUS
Zerkalo
CD, Faria Records, 2008

"Tangential glimpses remotely echoed, untethered from touch. No time nor place, no past nor future, internal, external. Sculpting from energy, clouded motion vaguely slipping. Evanescent vibration, without meaning apart from its own open secret".
These phrases -taken from the press sheet- describe and depict the sonic content and meaning of the new album "Zerkalo", a collaboration between the St. Peterburg-based musician Andrey Sadovnikov aka Faryus and ambient/glurp master Robert Rich.
The album as a whole, of which the title means mirror in Russian, pays homage to film of Andrey Tarkovky. As stated by Robert Rich, the deep drone ambient textures and dense atmospheres, presented in six uninterrupted parts, venture in similar sonic territory as explored on Rich's release "Below Zero" or Robert's collaborative album "Stalker".

The slow morphing ambient textures indeed have a stark forboding and dark character, occasionally even slightly menacing and spooky, but never too unpleasant.
Nevertheless, this is no easy ambient album, as its meandering soundscapes, which feels like a living organism, gets under your skin and won’t let go after that, while it continues travelling deeper and deeper.

The album is released as a limited edition of only 1000 copies and comes packaged with four color cards in a gatefold and sealed clear envelop.

Website: www.faria.ru