A Troubled Resting Place Explained

A Troubled Resting Place
Type:	compilation
Artist:	Robert Rich
Cover:	A_Troubled_Resting_Place.jpg
Released:	1996
Recorded:	January 1993 – July 1995 at Soundscape Studio
Genre:	Ambient, dark ambient
Length:	65:52
Label:	Fathom/Hearts of Space Records
Producer:	Robert Rich
Prev Title:	Stalker
Prev Year:	1995
Next Title:	Fissures
Next Year:	1997

A Troubled Resting Place (1996) is a compilation album by the American ambient musician Robert Rich. The first five tracks were originally released on multi-artist compilations. The sixth and final track is Rich’s 1994 mini-CD release Night Sky Replies.

In spite of the wide variety of sources of the material in this compilation, there is a constant style throughout the album. It consists of dark, turbulent organic atmospheres.

Track listing

1. ”The Simorgh Sleeps on Velvet Tongues” – 10:14

(Originally released on The Throne of Drones, 1995.)

1. ”Calling by Stormlight” – 5:10

(Originally released on Twilight Earth II, 1995.)

1. ”Buoyant on Motionless Deluge” – 8:00

(Originally released on Swarm of Drones, 1995.)

1. ”Bioelectric Plasma” – 16:42

(Originally released on DeepNet, 1996.)

1. ”Black Skies” – 5:19

(Originally released on The Promises of Silences, 1993)

1. ”Night Sky Replies”
   1. ”A Ripple of Sand” – 3:22
   2. ”Night Spinning Inward” – 6:28
   3. A Wheel Questions the Ground” – 7:10
   4. ”The Night Sky Replies” – 4:20

(Originally released on Night Sky Replies, 1994)

External links

• Hearts of Space Records Album Page