Fissures (album)

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Fissures
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Studio album by
Released1997
RecordedNovember – December 1996 at Soundscape Studio in Cambria, California
Genre Dark ambient, electro-acoustic [1]
Length61:49
Label Fathom/Hearts of Space Records
Robert Rich chronology
A Troubled Resting Place
(1996)
Fissures
(1997)
Numena + Geometry
(1997)
Alio Die chronology
Suspended Feathers
(1996)
Fissures
(1997)
The Hidden Spring
(1997)
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Fissures (1997) is a collaborative album by ambient musicians Robert Rich and Alio Die (Stefano Musso).

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Contents

Track listing

  1. ”Turning to Stone” – 5:27
  2. ”A Canopy of Shivers” – 5:51
  3. ”Sirena” – 9:10
  4. Mycelia” – 8:13
  5. ”The Divine Radiance of Invertebrates” – 8:37
  6. ”The Road to Wirikuta” – 18:49
  7. ”Tree of the Wind” – 5:40

Personnel

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