Stalker

Artist: Robert Rich & B. Lustmord
Label: Hearts of Space
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 025041105927
EAN: 0025041105927
ASIN: B000000X73

Release Date: 1995-11-14

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Glacier/Lunar Ambience: Cold & Dark Atmospheres
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Tracks:

Elemental Trigger
Synergistic Perceptions
Hidden Refuge
Delusion Fields
Omnipresent Boundary
Undulating Terrain
A Point of No Return

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Customer Reviews:

What nightmares are made of!.......2006-11-16

I received this CD from a co-worker when I was in the hospital. He knew I loved ambient music so I was very excited! Upon arriving home, I popped it in the player and sat back to enjoy. Wow! This actually made the hair on the back of my neck stand up! It's a chilling fluid movement that can be found in the depths of our nightmares. I highly recommend this if you are up for a evening of chills and wanderings of the imagination.

Someone is following you..........2006-11-14

...or are you just being paranoid? Can you be sure? Do you even know whether you are awake or dreaming? Such is the atmosphere created by this minimalistic, dark work. It is as though you are trapped deep underground in some pitch black cave, and yet the place you are in is far too surreal for the situation to be quite that simple. While not quite as desolate or dark as Lustmord's other work, this is definitely not for anyone looking for upbeat material. In fact, this album probably did more to introduce the dark ambient genre to more people than any work of recent memory, and deservedly so; it's an engaging piece (all the tracks flow together as if they were one) and it is certainly one of the best of its kind. These two guys should definitely collaborate again. If you like this CD, you should also check out 'Cold Summer' by Lull, and, of course, Lustmord's own 'Heresy.'

Soundtrack to the void and flares of emptiness.......2006-06-27

That the collaboration of two ambient acts can have astonishing results, has been proved in the recent past by Norway's Biosphere and Scotland's Higher Intelligence Agency (they made the highly admirable and unique "Polar sequences" and "Birmingham frequencies").

Now we have Lustmord, who produced such stark, creepy dark ambient albums as "Heresy" and "The place where the black stars hang", collaborating with Robert Rich on a concept album, that had the Russian film "Stalker" as source of inspiration. The Andrei Tarkovski movie, about three men entering an undefinable "forbidden zone", had a terrific soundrack of its own, by the acclaimed Russian composer Eduard Artemjew.

But although one might expect that Lustmord and Rich have a huge admiration for both the film and its original musical design, they completely went their own way with their record, producing an eerie, chilly mood and giving us a sense that something frightning is lurking in the dark.
Sizzeling sounds, diversed iron scraping noises, musical tones that sound like psychotic whispering, hollow chants, everything is in place to put our minds and sanity to the test.

But like the best (and darkest) moments of Lustmord, the music prevails. It succeeds in taking us on a journey into the unknown, into the undesirable, into a place that is filled with loathing and despair, through an all embracing sacrilegious void, and yet, pulls us out at the last moment, to let us emerge again to the surface, and give us a new sense of brightness and illumination, as though we went through some kind of musical catharsis.

Maybe. Maybe.

Don't judge a Book by its Cover..........2006-02-05

But in this case you can..

Imagine. You're on an island, the same island you see on the cover. No one knows about the island. No one will ever know you're there. No one will ever come near. No one will ever hear you scream. No one will ever find your body. That thought frightens you, yet at the same time fascinates you.

You're standing on the beach, the wind whales over the sea, making a lush sound that bearely brakes the silence that surrounds you and the whole island. It's not really cold, but you still have an ice-y shiver running over your spine. It's getting darker, you can still see the things that are close to you, but you can't see what's between those trees behind you. You're sleepy, but decide not to sleep either because you're too excited or too frightened, you don't know.

The darkness gets thicker, you can see less and less, until you can only hear the sound of the sea and the wind in a night without a moon. You suddenly hear other, stranger sounds, but don't question what they're from. Besides, you're so sleepy, you probably just imagine them. Yeah, that's it, you're just imagining them, it's your head playing tricks on you. Yup, definately. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, hopefully..

You hear sounds, the strangest you ever heard. You hear.. voices? Could that be possible? You lay down, hoping to fall asleep. You grab sand, as if you hope it will protect you against whatever is watching you. The sea comes closer and touches your bare feet, and although the water is cold, it calms your troubled soul. Deep inside. The sea keeps touching your feet.. Am I sure that's the sea touching me? It sure doesn't feel like the sea.. Everything is dark, darker than the darkest night you ever seen. And then, all of the sudden two pale white eyes open right in front of you..

You wake up, screaming your lungs out. Sweat drips off your face. You look around, you're in your room. Yup, the plate on which you ate your pizza last night is still there. You see you left your computer on. You forgot to close the music player. You left your CD playing. The CD just ended. You look on the cover of the CD. The island. The Sea. Stalker. Robert Rich. Lustmord.

A Dark Classic.......2005-07-13

It did not take long while listening to this cd for me to appreciate it as being something entirely cool. The production quality alone is superb enough to warrant investigation, and the album is also strong in a compositional sense. What contributes to this, I believe, is the interaction between the 2 musicians Rich and Lustmord. On the one hand, you have a more traditionally ambient sensibility, creating chord structures and floating melodies, and on the other you have the dark ambient sensiblility of Lustmord, expanding Rich's music into huge spaces, deftly defined with sounds that run the blade between music and noise.

I was tempted to check my little stereo while listening to this album, because it sounded to me like a hole had opened up behind it to reveal some giant space filled with fog and wild landscapes. If you could see my stereo, this would certainly impress you. On a good system, I can hardle imagine how cool this release would sound. . .

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