Watchful (1997) is an album by the
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group
AmoebaAmoeba is an experimental music group that fuses the pop and ambient music genres. They formed in California, USA in 1992. The core members of the group are ambient musician Robert Rich and guitarist/bassist Rick Davies....
. This is the first Amoeba album to feature the classic lineup of
Robert RichRobert Rich is an ambient musician and composer based in California, United States. With a discography spanning over 20 years, he is widely regarded as a figure whose sound has greatly influenced today's ambient, New Age, and even IDM music.-Early life:...
and
Rick DaviesRick Davies is an English-American musician, who is a co-founder and a member of the rock band Supertramp....
. The style of this album consists of subtle and largely acoustic pop compositions with heavy
ambientAmbient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
textures.
Work on this album began in 1994. It was completed in 1995. Over the next two years they searched for a label to distribute the album.
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Watchful (1997) is an album by the
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
experimental pop musicArt rock is a term describing a subgenre of rock music that tends to have "experimental or avant-garde influences" and emphasizes "novel sonic texture." Art rock is an "intrinsically album-based" form, which takes "advantage of the format's capacity for longer, more complex compositions and...
group
AmoebaAmoeba is an experimental music group that fuses the pop and ambient music genres. They formed in California, USA in 1992. The core members of the group are ambient musician Robert Rich and guitarist/bassist Rick Davies....
. This is the first Amoeba album to feature the classic lineup of
Robert RichRobert Rich is an ambient musician and composer based in California, United States. With a discography spanning over 20 years, he is widely regarded as a figure whose sound has greatly influenced today's ambient, New Age, and even IDM music.-Early life:...
and
Rick DaviesRick Davies is an English-American musician, who is a co-founder and a member of the rock band Supertramp....
. The style of this album consists of subtle and largely acoustic pop compositions with heavy
ambientAmbient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
textures.
Work on this album began in 1994. It was completed in 1995. Over the next two years they searched for a label to distribute the album. It was finally released in 1997 on the Lektronic Soundscapes label. When distribution problems arose with Lektronic Soundscapes, they moved to
Release RecordsRelease Records is a progressive music record label run out of Ontario, Canada. They have released singles from such artists as Medway, Peace Division, Benz & MD, and Flash Brothers. They have three sublabels: Release Elements, Release Grooves, and rr1000....
, who had also released Rich’s solo album
Trances/DronesTrances/Drones is an album by the American ambient musician Robert Rich. It is a two-disc compilation of Rich’s drone music albums Trances and Drones plus other material that was recorded during that time.-Overview:...
.
Track listing
- ”Inside” - 4:57
- ”Skin” - 2:53
- ”Origami
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” - 2:17
- ”Footless” - 5:02
- ”Ignoring Gravity” - 7:21
- ”Water Vapor” - 2:12
- ”Desolation” - 4:39
- ”Big Clouds” - 2:50
- ”Saragossa” - 4:06
- ”Any Other Sky” - 6:38
- ”Watchful Eyes” - 5:20
Personnel
- Robert Rich - vocals, percussion, synthesizer
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, wind instruments
- Rick Davies - electric and acoustic guitars, bass
- with:
- Hans Christian
Hans Christian is a German-born musician and producer now based in the U.S. in San Francisco. Christian is a multi-instrumentalist usually associated with Indian world music, ethnic fusion, chamber jazz, and sometimes New Age music, but who also plays classical music.Since his...
- cello (tracks 2, 4 and 9)
- Don Swanson - drums (tracks 4, 5 and 10)
- Ivy Barry - additional voice (track 4)
- Scott Wright - soprano and alto saxophone (track 10)