’Outpost’ is the first collaboration between British Synthesist Ian Boddy and American recording artist Robert Rich. Both have been involved in electronic music for over 20 years, but they have travelled very different musical paths. Rich is best known for his many releases on the USA based Hearts of Space, Hypnos and Relapse labels. Boddy's numerous electronic albums on his Something Else Records label garnered respect throughout Europe during the same period. Together, Rich and Boddy have concocted a mysterious blend of fluid electronic rhythms and impressionistic Sci-Fi soundscapes. With tools ranging from vintage and modern analogue modular synthesisers, prepared piano, metallic percussion, feedback networks and digital signal processing, the two musicians have crafted a sonic journey to the remote edge of a future, lost civilisation. Unlike most other "virtual" long-distance collaborations, this duo preferred to work together in the same space, allowing musical ideas to flow between them spontaneously. Full of surprising transitions and dynamic extremes, ‘Outpost’ shows these two veteran recording artists stretching their music into new vocabularies. Four sections of the album feature pulsing rhythms from Rich's MOTM modular synthesizer, while Boddy departs from his normally electronic voicings with abstract textural interludes performed on a 1925 vintage baby grand. Interwoven with NASA broadcasts, ionospheric radio whistlers, Boddy’s extreme meta-synth excursions, and Rich's signature steel guitar. ‘Outpost’ is an album that promises to take the listener to a new sonic terrain; it is wholly original and unlike anything turned out by either artist individually, but after a few airings it really does deliver!

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Weight: 150.00 g

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