Lithosphere (album)

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Lithosphere
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Released 2005
RecordedApril 2005 at Soundscape Studio in Mountain View, California
Genre Ambient
Length52:46
Label DiN
Producer Robert Rich and Ian Boddy
Robert Rich chronology
Echo of Small Things
(2005)
Lithosphere
(2005)
Electric Ladder
(2006)
Ian Boddy chronology
Arcturus
(2005)
Lithosphere
(2005)
Elemental
(2006)
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Lithosphere (2005) is a collaborative album by electronic musicians Robert Rich and Ian Boddy. Like their previous collaboration Outpost , this album was released as a limited edition of 2000 copies.

Contents

Track listing

  1. ”Threshold” – 2:07
  2. ”Vent” – 5:20
  3. ”Chamber” – 6:29
  4. ”Glass” – 3:40
  5. Subduction” – 5:34
  6. Geode” – 6:32
  7. ”Stone” – 3:51
  8. ”Metamorphic” – 7:25
  9. ”Lithosphere” – 6:29
  10. ”Melt” – 5:15

Personnel

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