Richard Bone - CD Albums
Welcome to USA artist Richard Bone who released his fabulous album “The Serene Life
of Microbes” on AD Music in September 2007. Richard has been making EM for many years and has produced a wonderful and diverse collection of albums. We’re very impressed with his latest offering and are pleased to have it as part of our catalogue. "Serene Life" is a gentle analogue, ambient electronic music excursion that will appeal to those who like drifting space music.
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| Serene Life of Microbes by Richard Bone |
| CD £11.39 / $16.39 |
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And yet, 'Serene Life' also manages to convey a strong contemporary mood which drifts in and out of a sublime beauty that is never less than utterly compelling. A stunning addition to both the AD catalogue and Richard's impressive discography
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Richard Bone
RICHARD BONE (born February 3, 1952 - Atlanta, GA) has been creating music for over twenty-five years. He began his early musical
career creating soundtracks and scores for several off-Broadway companies working in experimental theater. In 1979 he released
the single Pirate the Islands/Headlines Have It before joining the legendary band Shox Lumania in 1981.
That same year Richard
recorded a solo 7" called Digital Days/Alien Girl on his own that was picked up by Survival Records in the UK. While with
Survival he released two LPs, four EPs, two 45s and composed several singles for various compilations albums. In 1983 his single
Joy of Radiation reached #1 on the charts in Hong Kong.
In 1991 Richard started Quirkworks Laboratory Discs allowing him the freedom to create music of a more experimental nature and remain
in control of his musical direction. The next fifteen years would see Richard release eighteen recordings of all new material, a
compilation of previous Quirkworks' releases, a CD of alternate and previously unreleased tracks, co-produce and contribute musically
to Mary Zema's Songs of Early Paradise as well as contributing tracks to numerous compilations and various other musical projects.
Of the new material recordings, three quickly rose to the #1 placement on industry charts as well as receiving numerous other honors.
In 2004 Richard's recording The Reality Temples was nominated for the NAR Lifestyle Music Awards Best Electronic Album and his 2005
recording Saiyuji was nominated for the NAR Lifestyle Music Awards Best Ambient Album.
The Serene Life of Microbes is Richard's first release on AD Music and it is hoped it will be the first of many.
For full information about Richard Bone, including his back catalogue, please visit his official website www.richardbone.com
Richard Bone Album Reviews
Serene Life of Microbes
Review by Serge Kozlovsky http://mkmk.com/kozlovsky
Richard
Bone is one of the greatest instrumentalists of our days. I am always waiting impatiently for an appearance of his new compositions
as far as he is always novel, everlastingly changeable, being permanently in search. Richard Bone is not afraid of longing for
the unknown, be it the abyss of the cosmos or the human consciousness.
In his new album “Serene Lives of Microbes” released by the English AD Music company the composer is being plunged
in profundity of the microcosm. You hear this music and as if you peep in a magnifying glass of a microscope. And you just cannot
tear yourself away from it. The whole universe is being open up before your eyes, it becomes larger and larger and you become aware
how colossal it is. And this immensity scares you. As well as the inhabitants of this boundless world do. They are full of a captivating
beauty, they are living beings who live in this boundless world their own life which is understandable just by them alone. Where
from and what for did these cosmos messengers arrive? And you realize that these creatures are mortally dangerous though they look
so peaceful and inoffensive. They seduce by their sparkling luminescence, they tempt. And it becomes impossible to get rid of this
hypnotic inclination…
And you just start reflecting on the fact how often we get enchanted with the beauty which turns out to be just a tempting bait.
And once “sticking” to this beauty you will be lured fast into a trap and will never get out of it…
The 'Serene Life Of Microbes' album is kept up in an austere ambient style. Richard Bone works over the sound in a
masterly fashion creating “proprietary” surroundings peculiar to him alone. You can single out any note, enjoy each
rustle taken separately, and all of them are the integral part of the composition. There is nothing to excess here. You realize
that the picture will be imperfect when only a note is missing. And at the same time Bone’s minimalistic music is very splendid.
The 'Serene Life Of Microbes' album discloses new features of Richard Bone's talent. Once you have managed to
listen to this album attentively you will like to hear it again and again since the travel together with this music brings you back
to the real world at which you start to look otherwise.
Serene Life of Microbes
Review by Mick Garlick - Sequencers
You might not believe this but Richard Bones used to be a synthpopper, you know. Yeah, it's true, he made a couple of albums
(with vocals, even) before turning his hand to producing more atmospheric music, of which this fine album is the latest offering.
The 9 tracks here prove that he certainly knows his stuff, using a variety of sounds that all manage to set such strong resonant
atmospheres in a manner not totally dissimilar to Michael Stearns' Floating Whispers &, in a number of cases, perfectly evoking
the subject title.
'Protozoa Mon Amour' (gotta love those titles!) is a good example of this as the swells of sound that form
the music's basis seem to perfectly illustrate amoebae dividing & subdividing ad infinitum. Elsewhere both 'The Seduction
Of Dr. Pasteur' & 'Thermatoga' both have a deeply sub-aqueous feel, by which I mean either would provide a perfect accompaniment
to any sea-going programme, the dark mood of the latter piece being especially suggestive of the pitch black depths where those
dead ugly Angler Fishes live. The deep swells that forms the tracks backbone are almost like the deep breathing of some huge
underwater leviathan & this seems to be a regular feature of the album; the way that certain tracks seem to actually 'breathe';
the brighter 'Archea Apart' is another example of this while the album's highlights come in the form of two very different pieces,
namely 'Autotrophic Light', where a cheeky little arpeggio is embellished by imaginative rhythmic effects, abstract tones & finished
by cheeky little piano clusters to make the most immediately infectious track on the album-cheeky, that the only way to deacribe
it while, on a totally different note, 'The Radiant Life' benefits from an irresistably dramatic & poignant feel that the
massed strings provide, a full-on orchestra could hardly have done it any better & this is a piece to be savoured as the
album enters its final straight which sees 'Going Dormant' closing the album on a much darker & more mysterious note with
the abstract tones again providing an effective contrast to the more melodic elements.
There's no doubt that Bone has got the
ambient thing just right as, not only are the atmospheres he constructs so effective but accessable but, more importantly, each
track has something unique to offer & it's this combination that makes this album the success it is.