Duel of the Bountiful Solo Ambient Gods: Steve Roach vs. Robert Rich

https://www.colpapress.com/products/music-from-the-hearts-of-space-guide-anna-turner-stephen-hill

^^ this is a pretty amazing comprehensive overview circa 1981 of everything Hill & Turner were drawing on for the 70s HoS shows. striking for including a lot of folk records which included space-adjacent tracks, a listing of the most space adagio movements of modern classical (key to understanding the curation for the soundtrack of Sagan's Cosmos). and also for his inclusion of cassettes & unreleased tapes locals had sent him, a few of which have gotten reissued like Joanna Brouk or Ariel Karma but it is kind of crazy to see a historical document like this helping to will a genre into existence

Bump.

Thanks for this thread - I never listened to much by Robert Rich or Jorge Reyes, and I'm starting to get into both. Reyes I only knew from his Mort Aux Vaches album (which is great), I've been listening to The Flayed God a bunch this week and it's awesome too.

Ultimately this is just Mozart vs. Beethoven redux (Beethoven is the correct answer, obv).

I've been spending the past week listening to both, and I think I'm leaning towards Rich... really love Fissures with Alio Die, Yearning with Lisa Moskow, and the recent Offerings to the Morning Fog.

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Almost forgot to vote…

It's still Rich for me but I'm currently listening to the last track off of Inanna's Dream – a Roach/Serena Gabriel collab that came out this year – and thinking that either outcome would be equally perfect.

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Only 15 votes? Tsk, tsk, ILMers clearly need more ambient beatitude in their lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FR0thRsgMY