RhoDeo 2042 Expanse 13

 Hello, bit of a race cycling day this sunday, one of the oldest and thoughest race, the Tour of Flanders, in fact it's the biggest sportsevent of Belgium, hundred of thousands line the parcours and party all the way, but not this year, people were explicitely told to stay away and watch the race on television, they did and they saw a memorable race where the 3 pre race favorites broke free.  But then disaster struck as a slowing down motard almost got two of them Vanderpoel quickly took evasive action but following Julian Alaphilippe hit the motard and hit the deck, breaking vingers in his hand. Big home favorite Wout Van Aert had once again to deal with Mathieu van der Poel for the win, at the TdF he proved to be a fast sprinter he felt sure he could win, and once past the final km sign he dropped back. As these guys had a minute lead Van Der Poel started to slow down, not until the competition came within a few hundred yards did they start to sprint,
Mathieu won 2 inches in front of Wout, psychologically Wout was always at a disadvantage having lost to Mathieu so many times when both were the best at cyclo-cross. Over at the Giro a dramatic stage where race leader Almeida tore himsel apart to keep the pink yersey, he succeeded to keep 15 sec of his lead, i wonder if he succeeded because unlike Belgium here there were many watching on the side of the road and cheering him on, just saying. Anyway there's still 3 mountain stages for Wilco Kelderman to step out of the shadow and claim the big price, but then this is the Giro and like all roadracing, anything can happen....



Here today, Naturally my mission of trying to breakthough the wall of nonsense build by the supposed smartest men on the planet is continuing as chinks start to appear, their arrogant stupidity set us back decades if not more, electro-magnetics is clean energy and would have delivered us not only flying cars, but flying saucers aswell and who knows a pathway into other dimensions..Meanwhile The Expanse's Calibans War starts today.

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Astronomers find many celestial phenomena to be unexpected.

Many of those phenomena are familiar, even though they are not easily explained. The aurorae at each of Earth’s poles are familiar to most people, although the way they form is not completely understood. Similarly, lightning bolts are familiar to everyone, but how they are generated by clouds and rain is mysterious to meteorologists. As previously written, aurorae are electrical events caused by charged particles from the Sun, otherwise known as the solar wind, interacting with the atmospheric elements on Earth. As the solar wind enters Earth’s electrical environment, it is channeled down into electromagnetic cusps that act as field guides, aligning it with magnetospheric openings at the north and south poles. Those charged particles ionize oxygen, nitrogen and other atmospheric molecules, pushing them into a luminous state. A neon lamp is a good illustration of what happens: electricity creates plasma that glows. The colors in the aurorae depend on which element is glowing.

Lightning bolts are most likely caused by a capacitor effect between Earth’s ionosphere and the Sun. Electricity in the clouds and the ground can defeat the atmosphere’s insulating effect, generating “leader strokes”. When the two leaders meet, a circuit between the clouds and the ground is completed, and a burst of electric current flashes along the conductive pathway. Lightning’s arc mode effect is one of many ways that electricity behaves. There are also glow discharges, similar to the aurorae, that are observed above the clouds. These extremely large events are called “red sprites” and “blue jets.” Electricity is also evident in “dark” discharges. These could be powerful electric currents but they are unseen and difficult to detect. An ionic wind can reveal the presence of a dark discharge, such as that from an electric air purifier. In thunderstorms, dark discharges drag surrounding neutral air molecules along with charged particles. The strong winds into and out of such storms appear as updrafts and downdrafts. In an Electric Universe, thunderstorms are not produced through hot air convection, alone. Instead, thunderstorms could be a secondary phenomenon driven by an invisible dielectric breakdown of Earth’s atmospheric insulator.

Astronomers working with the Parkes radio telescope in Australia found “energetic transient flashes” that they think came from outside of the Milky Way galaxy. If that is the case, then “energetic” is a small word for such occurrences. As described in their press release, those radio bursts were so powerful that they exceeded the Sun’s total output for 300,000 years in only a few milliseconds. Since most astronomers are not knowledgable in other fields, especially electrical engineering, they are left with ideas like colliding magnetars, evaporating black holes, supernovae, gamma ray bursts, or “an entirely new type of high-energy astrophysical event” to explain them. As previous Pictures of the Day argue, stars do not age and die in the way that conventional understanding proposes. Stars are not globes of hot gas under pressure, they are composed of plasma. Plasma is ionized, so it is electrically charged. It does not behave like a pressurized gas, so shock waves and gravitational instabilities are insufficient when it comes to explaining the birth and death of stars. A star does not die in the conventional understanding that comes from supernova theories. Since a star’s power comes from external electric charge flowing through vast circuits in space, supernovae are the result of a stellar “open circuit” in the galactic power supply. In an exploding double layer, the energy of an entire interstellar circuit might flash into the explosion, increasing its expansion far from the surface of the star. Radiation from the double layer then shines in ultraviolet, X-rays, or bursts of gamma rays and radio waves. Electromagnetic jets from stars and galaxies are probably indicative of lightning discharges, as well.


Stephen Smith

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For the last five years, on this series, Thunderbolts colleague Andrew Hall has presented an extraordinary reconstruction of catastrophic events on Earth, exploring the telltale clues these events imprinted on our planet’s surface. As Andy has explained, many of the fractal patterns we see on Earth cannot be explained through any traditional geological process. However, these geological features find intriguing analogues in some of the highest energy atmospheric phenomena seen in our solar system today.

In Part One of this two-part presentation, Andy presents the Seventh Episode of his "Eye of the Storm" series with an examination of the remarkable filamentary and dendritic patterns seen on planet Earth — patterns whose explanation may be found in the ancient events that created the cultural memory of a mythical creature, the dragon.


a direct youtube link
https://youtu.be/DgNTKrjpiiI incase google still refuses to to post their own youtube content because i'm still on XP, bit autistic perhaps having trouble with change specially of the enforced kind

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The Expanse is a series of science fiction novels (and related novellas and short stories) by James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. The first novel, Leviathan Wakes, was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2012. The series as a whole was nominated for the Best Series Hugo Award in 2017.

As of 2019, The Expanse is made up of eight novels and eight shorter works - three short stories and five novellas. At least nine novels were planned, as well as two more novellas. The series was adapted for television by the Syfy Network, also under the title of The Expanse, then they dropped the ball despite the succes of the series, i suspect the whole thing got too serious (expensive) so once again Syfy network proved they can't handle success. Anyway fans were outraged and got Amazon Prime to pick it up for a fourth and fifth series and considering the mountain of money Jeff Bezos sits on i suspect several more as long as the fans keep cheering.

The Expanse is set in a future in which humanity has colonized much of the Solar System, but does not have interstellar travel. In the asteroid belt and beyond, tensions are rising between Earth's United Nations, Mars, and the outer planets.

The series initially takes place in the Solar System, using many real locations such as Ceres and Eros in the asteroid belt, several moons of Jupiter, with Ganymede and Europa the most developed, and small science bases as far out as Phoebe around Saturn and Titania around Uranus, as well as well-established domed settlements on Mars and the Moon.

As the series progresses, humanity gains access to thousands of new worlds by use of the ring, an artificially sustained Einstein-Rosen bridge or wormhole, created by a long dead alien race. The ring in our solar system is two AU from the orbit of Uranus, and passing through it leads to a hub of starless space approximately one million kilometers across, with more than 1,300 other rings, each with a star system on the other side. In the center of the hub, which is also referred to as the "slow zone", an alien space station controls the gates and can also set instantaneous speed limits on objects inside of the hub as a means of defense.


The story is told through multiple main point-of-view characters. There are two POV characters in the first book and four in books 2 through 5. In the sixth and seventh books, the number of POV characters increases, with several characters having only one or two chapters. Tiamat's Wrath returns to a more limited number with five. Every book also begins and ends with a prologue and epilogue told from a unique character's perspective.

Novels
#     Title             Pages     Audio     
1     Leviathan Wakes     592     20h 56m
2     Caliban's War         595     21h     
3     Abaddon's Gate     539     19h 42m
4     Cibola Burn         583     20h 7m
5     Nemesis Games     544     16h 44m
6     Babylon's Ashes     608     19h 58m
7     Persepolis Rising     560     20h 34m
8     Tiamat's Wrath         544     19h 8m
9     Unnamed final novel

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Caliban's War
Eighteen months after the events of Leviathan Wakes, the solar system is in a precarious balance while they watch unknowable events unfold on the planet Venus. Earth and Mars are still poised for battle, and someone didn't recognize the warning that the Eros Incident held for humanity.

Major character arcs

James Holden is the captain of the salvaged Martian warship Rocinante. He and his crew have worked for the Outer Planets Alliance for 18 months since what’s become known as the Eros Incident, and the job just doesn’t feel right. While assisting a botanist in the search for his daughter, Holden comes across signs that people are still trying to tame the protomolecule, and the threat comes very close to home. Breaking his OPA ties, he becomes an ever-more-important piece in the four-way chess game for who will run the solar system.

Chrisjen Avasarala is a high-ranking UN official who knows how to get things done. Plugged in to all sources of information, she’s simultaneously monitoring events on Earth, Mars, Ganymede and Venus, though the last one is the toughest to predict what will happen next. Seeing shifts coming but not able to completely grasp what they mean, she accepts a post that takes her away from the action knowing she is playing her expected part until it is time to do the unexpected. Then, she meets James Holden for the first time aboard his ship, trying to defuse a solar-system-wide war.

Bobbie Draper is a Martian Marine stationed on Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s largest moons and known as the breadbasket of the outer planets. After she witnesses the brutal defeat and destruction of military forces on both sides of a conflict by a third party, she is taken to Earth to participate in peace talks, but doesn’t follow the party line and gets in trouble with her leaders. Now helping Chrisjen Avasarala, she must quickly adapt to interplanetary politics and office intrigue. Later moving her duties to space, her military training comes in handy once again.

Praxidike Meng is a botanist working on Ganymede when tensions erupt. His daughter is lost in the chaos, and he finds information that she was actually taken from her daycare before the action. He tries to find her in the decaying conditions of his home, but latches on to James Holden as a source of hope. Eventually becoming the face of the crisis at Ganymede, his efforts to find his daughter’s abductors have interstellar ramifications.

Plot summary

On Ganymede, Mei Meng is kidnapped from her preschool by her doctor. Several hours later, Earth and Martian space marines are attacked and effortlessly killed by a super soldier, with Bobbie Draper, a Martian marine, the only survivor. Earth and Mars begin a shooting war which throws Ganymede into chaos. In the aftermath, Mei's father Praxidike Meng fruitlessly searches for his daughter in the midst of the societal breakdown in the Ganymede colony.

Several months later, the crew of the Rocinante are tasked with delivering emergency aid to Ganymede. Meng spots James Holden during a food riot and asks the crew to help find his daughter. They agree and are able to trace her kidnappers to unused tunnels on the moon. Holden, Meng, and ship mechanic Amos Burton discover a secret lab. In the midst of a shootout with lab security, they inadvertently release another super soldier who kills some of the lab personnel. In the wake of the battle, the crew find remnants of the protomolecule and the corpse of Mei's friend, who was being treated by Mei's doctor for immunodeficiency. The crew rush to escape the station as more chaos erupts around them, and are able to make it back aboard the Rocinante.

Draper is brought to the peace talks between Earth and Mars occurring on Earth, giving testimony regarding the super soldier attack on Ganymede. She violates diplomatic protocol and is dismissed by the Martian delegation, but is then hired by Chrisjen Avasarala, who is leading the UN negotiations. Draper discovers that Avasarala's assistant is betraying her, leading Avasarala to conclude that her UN superiors are trying to get rid of her, from which she deduces that a group within the UN is responsible for the super soldier attack. Avasarala allows Draper to be brought along as her bodyguard on a slow-moving yacht headed to Ganymede on an ostensible relief mission.

On their way to Tycho station, the Rocinante crew discovers a super soldier stowed away in their cargo hold. They are able to lure out the creature using radioactive bait before vaporizing it with the ship's exhaust. The Rocinante is damaged during the encounter, but the crew learn more about the super soldiers. Holden confronts Fred Johnson, who he believes controls the only other sample of the protomolecule. Johnson denies involvement with the Ganymede incident and fires Holden's crew. They help Meng release a video asking for help searching for Mei, raising enough money to continue the search. Upon receiving information about Mei's doctor, Meng deduces that the super soldiers are being created on a base on Io. With the Rocinante repaired, they set out to recover Mei.

On board the yacht, Avasarala sees Meng's video appeal and learns that a UN detachment is heading to intercept the Rocinante. The crew of the yacht prevent her from warning Holden, claiming that their communication systems are broken. When they refuse her demands to get the yacht repaired, Avasarala has Draper take control of the vessel. Avasarala sends a warning to Holden, and she and Draper board a racing pinnace to rendezvous with the Rocinante. After meeting Holden's crew, Avasarala and Draper share notes of the super soldiers. Realizing that they are several days away from being destroyed by the UN detachment, Avasarala convinces the crew to let her send this information to her contacts within the UN to prevent an all-out war.

Draper and Avasarala convince the Martian fleet to help protect the Rocinante. This culminates in a space battle between the UN detachment, the Martian forces, and a second UN fleet loyal to Avasarala. With the UN Secretary General recalling the admiral hostile to the Rocinante, the battle ends in victory for the Martians and Avasarala's faction. The crew lands on Io, where Amos and Meng rescue Mei along with other immunodeficient children. Draper kills a super soldier using knowledge about its capabilities. The crew heads back to Luna, where the people responsible for the super soldier project are brought to justice. Avasarala is promoted, Meng is hired to oversee efforts to restore Ganymede, Draper returns to Mars, and the Rocinante takes a contract escorting a supply ship. Throughout the story, the solar system had been watching changes on Venus, which culminate with the launch of something unknown as the book ends.




<a href="https://multiup.org/71ffc68a701740415df5806f6db5c405">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 23-29 </a> ( 165min  64mb)

James Corey The Expanse Caliban's War 23-29 165min



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previously

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<a href="https://multiup.org/7c2db1bc4c8f93ff45f2df6e5a901aca">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 08-15 </a> ( 173min  78mb)
<a href="https://multiup.org/d627294ce680b55a5552ee26da80628d">James Corey - The Expanse Caliban's War 16-22 </a> ( 169min  64mb)

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Sundaze 2042

 Hello,  a fantastic footbal game between Liverpool and Everton this afternoon, unfortunately totally ruined by haggling officials when Evertons goalie lunged into Van Dijk and possibly end his season the referee didn't dare to show the red card because a- it was the 6th minute and b- Liverpool was already 1-0 up and c VAR was against Liverpool any way which they proved without doubt, when in extra time they decided the winning goal was offside because they said so, nobody else saw it that way, not the referee or any of the players, I think those behind the Var this match should be thoroughly investigated it really smells of corruption....


Today's Artist is one of the founders of the US's electronic music scene ..... N'Joy

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 Richard Bone
(born February 3, 1952 - Atlanta, GA)

     Interest in creating music began very early in Richard's life. By his early teens he was already creating experimental sound compositions. Several years later he discovered electronic music and the album The United States of America where he first heard cutting edge electronics used in a rock format. He was greatly influenced by that LP and the solo works of Joseph Byrd, which eventually led him to start creating music using primitive synthesizers. Formal training in the arts began in the seventies when he studied drama for four years at the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts. His passion for sound design led him to create soundtracks and scores for several off-Broadway companies working in experimental theater. His atmospheric musical soundscapes were used by the New York Conservatory in several of their plays and videos.

     Richard's first official foray into the music business was with a demo that was produced by Patti Smith's legendary guitarist, Lenny Kaye. Driving forces behind the demo were Lenny and Danny Fields, both well known in the rock field. For the next few years Richard performed at locations along the East Coast while continuing with his theater studies. His first American single was the 45-rpm Pirate the Islands/Headlines Have It released with his band Bone on his own Rumble Records in 1979. The B-side Headlines went on to be covered by the Dutch band Urban Heroes as their first worldwide single. Their second LP also included another song written by Richard entitled When Worlds Collide that would have been one of four tracks featured on the double 45 called Nobody Discos on Pluto. However, that follow up was never released. His next releases were two abstract works, Life in Video City and Quiz Party, both released on very limited cassette by the Los Angeles based Eurock label.

     In 1981 he joined the legendary band Shox Lumania whose Live at the Peppermint Lounge became one of the first releases on the visionary RIOR label. Shox Lumania featured Stephanie Kaye (Lenny Kaye's wife), Anton Sanko (who went on to record Solitude Standing with Suzanne Vega) and Richard on synthesizers. They were a very theatrical band with as much emphasis on choreography and costume as music. It was the best of both worlds for Richard. The darlings of NYC, it was not uncommon to find everyone from Klaus Nomi, Souixie Souix to David Bowie & Devo in their dressing rooms.

     During that same time period Richard recorded and released a solo 7" called Digital Days/Alien Girl on his own Rumble Records that was quickly picked up by Survival Records in the UK. While with Survival Records he released two LPs - Brave Tales and Exspectacle; four EPs - The Beat is Elite, Joy of Radiation, The Real Swing, Living in Partytown; two 45s - Digital Days/Alien Girl and Joy/Do Angels Dance; and singles for the Mind & Matter, Dance Report and Art of Survival compilation. His single of Joy... reached #1 on the dance charts in Hong Kong. From 1981 to 1983 he also produced the 7" Jolene/Who's on Top? for the band Rubber Rodeo as well as contributing musically on two of their other releases. In 1983 Richard's video for his single "Alien Girl" was included on Danspak, an experimental Sony video. In 1984 he was asked to contribute to the double cassette called Film Noir - American/European Style released on Ding Dong Records. His track was entitled "Far From Yesterday (parts 1&2)" on that limited edition compilation cassette. By this time Richard was firmly placed in the British alternative charts and was even referred to as the American version of Howard Jones by the British press.

     As Survival Records continued to move in a dance oriented direction, Richard began to find his musical interests shifting away from the 80's New Wave club scene so on his own he recorded several experimental works. Emerging Melodies (Rumble Records) was the soundtrack to a video art project that aired on award-winning cable and broadcast television in America (USA Cable & Co-Directions in NYC). "Alternate Music for the Hindenberg Lounge" was included on the American Music Compilation released by the Eurock label in 1982. That same year Richard also recorded an experimental concept album called Grey Hideaway that was never released. One track from that work however, was used in 1986 on an early AIDS awareness music video also entitled "Grey Hideaway" - part of a longer video called "Chance of a Lifetime". Around the mid to late 80's Survival Records folded and Richard decided to take a break from music for a few years.

     In 1991 Richard started his own label, Quirkworks Laboratory Discs, allowing him the freedom to create music of a more experimental nature and remain in control of his musical direction. His first two releases, Quirkwork in 1993 and X Considers Y  in 1994, were somewhat similar to the synth-pop style of his Survival days and were also the last full-length recordings that featured Richard's vocal work. The release of the instrumental Ambiento in 1994 introduced a new ambient direction for Richard's music.

     Next came Vox Orbita in 1995, an upbeat ambient work full of samples, rhythms and a bit of a Laurie Anderson influence. The Grace Pro disc Media Works followed featuring six tracks of Richard's; two from Vox Orbita, two from Ambiento and two tracks that were previously unreleased - "Mi Mundo" and "The Deluxe Set". Richard also contributed tracks in 1995 on two benefit CD's - "Etherea Arriving" on the Maine Vocals compilation and "Overstated Papers" (Richard's very last vocal work) on the Anon compilation. That same year he also contributed tracks on two Alternative Press Samplers; #5 contained "X Considers Y" from X Considers Y and an alternate mix of "El Gato Negro" from Vox Orbita . Sampler #7 contained "Vox 9" from Vox Orbita and the previously unreleased "Illicit Behavior".

     By the time his next disc The Eternal Now was released in 1996, Richard had decided to pursue instrumental music exclusively. The Eternal Now , containing the two separate suites "Zone" and "The Millennium Pages", was recorded only after sunset, by candlelight. His most personal recording, the creation of The Eternal Now was the beginning of Richard's journey into the mystic. While recording The Eternal Now , he simultaneously recorded another CD, Metaphysic Mambo - an upbeat work similar in style to Ambiento and Vox Orbita , released on the Reversing Recordings label. That same year "In the Shadow of Rain", a track from Vox Orbita was used on the Russian compilation Back to the Universe and an untitled track was used on the Staalplaat compilation called The Answering Machine Solution.

     His next project was to be an EP length recording of electronically structured pieces entitled Solo Cog . Although the work was completed, it was never released. In 1997 the mini-compilation A Survey of Remembered Things was released containing five tracks of Richard's and four by electronic percussionist John Orsi. The compilation entitled em:t 1197 from t:me Recording LTD was also released in 1997 and included "Vox 2.5", an alternate mix of "Vox 2" from Vox Orbita. Also that year, Headcandy Productions released their first video entitled Sidney's Psychedelic Adventure that included "Komarov's Fire" from A Survey of Remembered Things.

     In 1998 Richard released the highly acclaimed Electropica, his homage to Bossa Nova masters Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfa and Joao Gilberto. The rhythmic Electropica came about from a rather mystical occurrence at a record store in 1996 causing Richard to devote a year of his life to the study of 60's bossa nova and the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim in particular. Also in 1998 Richard began working with Mike Griffin at Hypnos Recordings. He recorded the track "Via Mycropia" for the first Hypnos compilation, The Other World and his next disc, the atmospheric The Spectral Ships was released on Hypnos near the end of 1998. That same year he recorded the track "Murmurio" for the Halcyon Recordings compilation Oscillations and co-produced and contributed musically to Mary Zema's Songs of Early Paradise that was released on the Quirkworks label.

     Early in 1999 Richard released the rhythmic Coxa, his follow-up to Electropica. This work however, was more influenced by the 60's jazz masters Creed Taylor, Rudy Van Gelder, Cal Tjader and Dave Pike. Later that year he released his next atmospheric disc, Ether Dome, on the Hypnos label. The compilation Distillation, featuring tracks from earlier Quirkworks releases plus two unreleased ambient works was also released in 1999 on the Halcyon Recordings label. The Electroshock compilation Electroacoustic Music V 3 was released that year as well and included a track by Richard entitled "Elusia, I Can See!"

      Ascensionism, influenced by the Ascension Schools and the beat poets, was released August 15, 2000 concluding the trilogy that began in 1998 with Electropica. Well received by fans and radio alike, Ascensionism quickly reached and held the #1 spot on the New Age Voice Top 100 charts for two months, remaining in the Top 10 for 4 consecutive months. The November 2000 issue of New Age Voice magazine included an interview with Richard as their featured artist and Ambient Visions conducted an in depth interview with Richard that was released November 30, 2000.

      Richard's next ambient project Tales from the Incantina, inspired by ancient Toltec philosophy and travels to the Mayan/Toltec ruins in Mexico was released April 3, 2001. This recording made its debut at #6 on the New Age Voice Top 100 for April 2001 airplay and remained in the Top 10 for two months. Tales from the Incantina marks the first release for INDIUM, an ambient division of Quirkworks Laboratory Discs. In May of 2001, Richard released his first D.A.M. CD, Alternate Worlds Vol. 1 which included previously unreleased tracks from Tales from the Incantina and Ascensionism as well as several other unreleased tracks exclusively at MP3.com.

      Richard's next rhythmic recording Disorient, was released March 5, 2002 on the Quirkworks label. Shortly after its release, Disorient made its debut at #1 on the New Age Voice Top 100 charts and remained there for two consecutive months. In April 2002 Richard completed the re-recording of "Joy of Radiation", a vocal track he first recorded in 1983. This track was going to be featured on a tribute site devoted to the Survival artists of the early eighties, but the project never materialized. In June of 2002 an agreement was reached between Richard and Lyra Studios making available twenty-two downloadable tracks as background music for the multiplayer online role-playing game Underlight. Richard's latest ambient CD Indium, was released by Electroshock Records on Dec. 10, 2002. In addition to several previously unreleased tracks, this CD also contains a thirty minute piece Richard included on a limited release ambient video also entitled Indium.

      Harmony with Ambience, a multi-artist compilation organized by the Japanese label Windfarm Records, was released June 1, 2003. This disc included Richard's track "Dzibana" from his CD Tales from the Incantina. On August 10, 2003 Alternate Realities was released on the Spiralight label featuring nine alternate mixes and unreleased tracks of Richard's work. This CD made the #11 position on the New Age Reporter charts for September airplay, the Backroad's Music and Wind and Wire lists of Top Recordings for 2003 and the Star's End list of significant releases of 2003 among other honors.

      Richard's next rhythmic recording was The Reality Temples that released June 30, 2004 on the Spiralight label. This disc debuted at the #6 position on the New Age Reporter Top 100 chart for August airplay and was nominated for the 2004 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards' Best Electronic Album. Orlandomaniac Music released Untold Tales  on April 15th -- a CD of nineteen previously unheard vocal demo tracks Richard recorded during his early Survival years of 1979 - 85. Other 2004 projects included a various artist compilation CD from Spiralight Recordings called Ambienism Vol. One featuring a new track by Richard entitled "Stillness Repeating" that was released March 15, 04.

      On September 20, 2005 Richard released Saiyuji, the final recording of the trilogy begun with Disorient and The Reality Temples. Saiyuji quickly climbed the New Age Reporter Top 10 charts and was nominated for the 2005 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards' Best Ambient Album.

      Richard released Vesperia (Music for Vespers at the First Congregational Church of Holliston, Massachusetts) on May 2, 2006 and a limited edition DVD entitled The Vesperia Videos shortly thereafter. His ambient recording Serene Life of Microbes was released October 17, 2006 on the AD Music label.

      In March of 2007 Richard released Via Poetica, a collaboration with poet/vocalist Lisa Indish, and Experiments '80-'82, a limited edition CD featuring selected tracks from his cassette only 1980 recordings Life in Video City and Quiz Party along with three tracks he contributed to the 1982 American Music Compilation LP. Richard also completed a recording of new material entitled Infinite Plastic Creation that released September 10, 2007 and was awarded  the 2007 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards' Best Electronic Album. Two additional recordings, Connection Failed - a collection of previously unreleased ambient tracks created as backing tracks for collaborations and Songs From The Analog Attic - a collection of unreleased vocal works recorded between 1992 and 1998, were also made available just before the end of 2007.

    Projects of 2008 included a DVD & soundtrack CD release entitled Short Waves - Brief Excursions in Surreal Video that released March 20, 2008 and an ambient recording entitled Sudden Departure that was released September 16, 2008. Sudden Departure has just been nominated the 2008 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards' Best Ambient and Best Electronic Album.

    Richard released the ambient work The Ghosts of Hanton Village on September 15, 2009. His next recording was in March 2010 when he released his first iTunes application Mind Environs and a 3-track EP of the same name. On October 19, 2010 a CD of archival tracks entitled Beleaguered Blossoms (selected artifacts 1993-2009) was released. Late October 2010 also saw the release of the Christmas album ChristmasAD - The First Snow that included two of Richard's holiday tracks.

     More recent projects have included a May 2011 release that featured remixes of selected tracks of Richard's music assembled by Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi entitled Adaptors, and a July 2011 release of new material entitled XesseX.

     A collection entitled Anthology was released as a download only on March 25, 2013 and a recording of all new material, Images From A Parallel World released April 24, 2013 -- both on the AD Music label. A vinyl EP entitled Cranium Fizz became available September 2013.

     Releases for 2014 included a recording of all new matierial entitled Vertical Life that released in March, and a boxed-set of long out-of-print material from the years 1979 - 1985 entitled Vaulted Visions from Vinyl-on-Demand.

    In 2015 there were three releases: Brave Sketches - a double LP set released by Orlandomaniac Music, Obtuse Tantrums, a 7" vinyl EP from AttractiveCO, and the CD Involution Vol. 1 that was released by Quirkworks on September 23, 2015.

    Richard completed a dark ambient project entitled Nibiru (jan 2018), a CD recording on the Mega Dodo Label - Age of Falconry (july 2017), and issued a very limited-edition USB only recording entitled AERA (may, 2016).

    Most recently Richard created Empyrean Castles and A Garden of Invited Flowers in 2019. In 2020, he's already working on an excellent album.


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Richard Bone's "Short Waves" cd is the soundtrack to the DVD "Short Waves: 12 Brief Excursions Into Surreal Video" combined with extended bonus versions of 4 of the tracks. The mood ranges from the dark and foreboding tones of Delonyka to the more upbeat, like the jazzy electric piano lines of Arboratora. Like the DVD each the 12 main pieces are unique and influences as varied as Harold Budd and Bob James can easily be heard. The music, as well as their companion videos, were carefully crafted over the course of a year and a half. They weave their way into the listener's imagination and then vanish like an elusive dream!



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01 Arboratora 2:52
02 Blue Cordial 2:36
03 Orbitaj 2:16
04 Sea of Sound 2:14
05 Winters in Euphoria 2:43
06 The Indifferent O 2:24
07 Impossibly Gray 2:41
08 Flexion 2:21
09 Delonyka 2:10
10 Eldersway 3:51
11 Primitive Machine Vision 2:24
12 Autumna Falls 2:55
Bonus Tracks
13 Flexion (Nights in Bavaria Mix) 3:14
14 Eldersway (Long Version) 4:37
15 Impossibly Gray (Prolonged Sax Mix) 3:56
16 Autumna Falls (Longer Season) 4:37


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Sudden Departure marks Richard Bone's 24th release on his Quirkworks label and is the latest ambient work in an ephemeral, ever changing career which now spans 25 years. Sudden Departure takes it's name from the stunning work of art by Cynthia Lund Torroll which graces it's cover. The 11 tracks convey a wide pallette of moods and emotions..from the mystery of Unknown Waters, the strength of Paetr Pax (Paetr was the ancient Roman name for the head of a family unit), to the sweeping beauty of Ophir , named for the lost city thought to be the source of King Solomon s gold and home to the Queen of Sheeba. Imaginative and serene, serious yet playful, Sudden Departure is the essence of Richard Bone s music...



<a href="http://www.imagenetz.de/t9S3r">Richard Bone - Sudden Departure</a> ( flac 253mb)

01 Unknown Waters 5:54
02 Sea Clouds 3:53
03 Paetr Pax 5:18
04 Why Lithia Flies 5:24
05 The Memory of Caves 6:02
06 Fractal Ashes 3:43
07 We Call It Sashir 6:02
08 Sugar Dust Sunday 4:40
09 School of the Builders 4:17
10 Temptara 4:32
11 Ophir 5:20

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“The Ghosts of Hanton Village” marks the 25th release on Mr Bone’s label Quirkwork Laboratory Discs. It contains ten ambient/experimental compositions that have been inspired by the folklore surrounding Hanton Village, a mysterious commune in the northwest hills of Rhode Island, close to Richard’s home. It was settled by a group of unknown travelers in 1790…who vanished without a trace in 1890.

For the music, Richard Bone envisioned an outcome that ranged from dark, chilling excursions to musings filled with hope and promise, same as the stories themselves. “Nemiah” and “A Silent Season” are quite happy tunes, while “Pyrambala” (Solace and Embers) submerges in darker, mysterious soundscapes. “Lament for Evangeline” though is a moody and classical exercise with a strong reflective, emotional realm, but in the following tracks the unusual, quirky side of Bone’s music briefly shows up again. The excellent 15-minute “The Slumbering Sky” though feels like a warm embrace with its glowing, slowly shifting vintage synth textures, lofty piano and accompanying instruments. The next tracks nicely follow up to that with their spacious sound design. Nevertheless, this is 65 minutes of well-executed gloomy music with a strong sense of remembrance. Occasional spooky, dark and with abstract/experimental rims, it may be a harder to crack and appreciate work for some ambient fans, but it will proof to be rewarding in the end. On Richard’s website and YouTube one can also find a beautiful ambient video complementing the “The Ghosts of Hanton Village” concept.




<a href="https://multiup.org/8438c1dc8d2d47878074056979fec771">   Richard Bone - The Ghosts of Hanton Village </a> ( flac 318mb)

01 Somaia Arafa 5:52
02 Nemeniah 5:31
03 A Silent Season 5:10
04 Pyrambala (Solace & Embers) 6:04
05 Lament for Evangeline 7:11
06 Anna of Covington House 5:38
07 The Slumbering Sky 15:13
08 The Shadowlands 3:46
09 Insidious Twilight 4:21
10 Bridge of Temporal Stone 6:32
    
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“Beleagured Blossoms” contains 11 forgotten artifacts from Mr Bone’s archive. They’ve been composed between 1993-2009, and most of them are soundtracks from various film and video projects. Mr Bone’s versatile compositions walk the edge of combining the abstract with contemporary electronica. His music steps out of the ordinary, transforms into unusual shapes and spheres, the latter ranging from hypnotizing and a bit forboding to free form compositions with quirky elements occasionally lurking underneath. An example of the latter is found in “Rejected Robot Seeks Same”, while Richard is heard more playful on e.g. “October World”. With focussed attention, one can also learn where certain tracks fit in in the Bone-timeline: “Sombra” e.g. was layed down during the “Electropica” sessions, the style of both “Love Song For An Old Soul” and “Adrift” reflect they were recorded somewhere between the albums “The Spectral Ships” and “Etherdome”. On “100 Hills of Sukha”, Richard recalls it to be written during the sessions that became “Ascensionism”. For me, the best track on the album is the 7-minute “Desmoria”, creating a nice balanced mood and sonic environment.



<a href="https://bayfiles.com/lfF26ag6pc/Rchrd_Bn_Blgrd_Blsssms_zip">Richard Bone - Beleaguered Blossoms (Selected Artifacts 1993-2009)</a> ( flac 301mb)

01 Recombinant 3.1 1:22
02 Desmoria 7:16
03 Rejected Robot Seeks Same 7:10
04 The Lurking 3:46
05 Sombra 5:40
06 Mantle 4:50
07 October World 3:31
08 Tiny Empires 4:03
09 Love Song For An Old Soul 3:02
10 100 Hills Of Sukha 6:36
11 Adrift  5:07

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RhoDeo 2041 Grooves

 Hello, as Trump expects to win the tv show townhall ratings, and let's face it, it's more fun to see a cracy guy go off, then to watch a sensible grandpa speaking softly. The sad case is the US public has been fed a constant flow of violence and cracy people, what is real, what is not, the distinction has been blurred for decades, confusion leading to fear, leading to bad decisions, let's hope they come to their senses....


Today's Artists had a partnership that produced some of the most unimaginably wonderful, melodic rock-pop and unabashed blue-eyed soul music it was the '70s and '80s fortune to experience. They may be thought of today as nerdy and radio-friendly, baby boomer, mullet head icons, but their strongly crafted songwriting talent, tight musicianship and Daryl's sweet and powerful vocals are a true listening joy.
.........N Joy

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 From their first hit in 1974 through their heyday in the '80s, Daryl Hall and John Oates' smooth, catchy take on Philly soul brought them enormous commercial success -- including six number one singles and six platinum albums. Hall & Oates' music was remarkably well constructed and produced; at their best, their songs were filled with strong hooks and melodies that adhered to soul traditions without being a slave to them, incorporating elements of new wave and hard rock.

Daryl Hall began performing professionally while he was a student at Temple University. In 1966, he recorded a single with Kenny Gamble and the Romeos; the group featured Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell, who would all become the architects of Philly soul. During this time, Hall frequently appeared on sessions for Gamble and Huff. In 1967, Hall met John Oates, a fellow Temple University student. Oates was leading his own soul band at the time. The two students realized they had similar tastes and began performing together in an array of R&B and doo wop groups. By 1968, the duo had parted ways, as Oates transferred schools and Hall formed the soft rock band Gulliver; the group released one album on Elektra in the late '60s before disbanding.


After Gulliver's breakup, Hall concentrated on session work again, appearing as a backup vocalist for the Stylistics, the Delfonics, and the Intruders, among others. Oates returned to Philadelphia in 1969, and he and Hall began writing folk-oriented songs and performing together. Eventually they came to the attention of Tommy Mottola, who quickly became their manager, securing the duo a contract with Atlantic Records. On their first records -- Whole Oates (1972), Abandoned Luncheonette (1973), War Babies (1974) -- the duo were establishing their sound, working with producers like Arif Mardin and Todd Rundgren and removing much of their folk influences. At the beginning of 1974, the duo relocated from Philadelphia to New York. During this period, they only managed one hit -- the number 60 "She's Gone" in the spring of 1974.

After they moved to RCA in 1975, the duo landed on its successful mixture of soul, pop, and rock, scoring a Top Ten single with "Sara Smile." The success of "Sara Smile" prompted the re-release of "She's Gone," which rocketed into the Top Ten as well. Released in the summer of 1976, Bigger than the Both of Us was only moderately successful upon its release. The record took off in early 1977, when "Rich Girl" became the duo's first number one single.


Although they had several minor hits between 1977 and 1980, the albums Hall & Oates released at the end of the decade were not as successful as their mid-'70s records. Nevertheless, they were more adventurous, incorporating more rock elements into their blue-eyed soul. The combination would finally pay off in late 1980, when the duo released the self-produced Voices, the album that marked the beginning of Hall & Oates' greatest commercial and artistic success. The first single from Voices, a cover of the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling," reached number 12, yet it was the second single, "Kiss on My List" that confirmed their commercial potential by becoming the duo's second number one single; its follow-up, "You Make My Dreams" hit number five. They quickly released Private Eyes in the summer of 1981; the record featured two number one hits, "Private Eyes" and "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)," as well as the Top Ten hit "Did It in a Minute." "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" also spent a week at the top of the R&B charts -- a rare accomplishment for a white act. H20 followed in 1982 and it proved more successful than their two previous albums, selling over two million copies and launching their biggest hit single, "Maneater," as well as the Top Ten hits "One on One" and "Family Man." The following year, the duo released a greatest-hits compilation, Rock 'N Soul, Pt. 1, that featured two new Top Ten hits -- the number two "Say It Isn't So" and "Adult Education."


In April of 1984, the Recording Industry Association of America announced that Hall & Oates had surpassed the Everly Brothers as the most successful duo in rock history, earning a total of 19 gold and platinum awards. Released in October of 1984, Big Bam Boom expanded their number of gold and platinum awards, selling over two million copies and launching four Top 40 singles, including the number one "Out of Touch." Following their contract-fulfilling gold album Live at the Apollo with David Ruffin & Eddie Kendrick, Hall & Oates went on hiatus. After the lukewarm reception for Daryl Hall's 1986 solo album, Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine, the duo regrouped to release 1988's Ooh Yeah!, their first record for Arista. The first single, "Everything Your Heart Desires," went to number three and helped propel the album to platinum status.


However, none of the album's other singles broke the Top 20, indicating that their era of chart dominance had ended. Change of Season, released in 1990, confirmed that fact. Although the record went gold, it featured only one Top 40 hit -- the number 11 single "So Close." The duo mounted a comeback in 1997 with Marigold Sky, but it was only partially successful; far better was 2003's Do It for Love and the following year's soul covers record Our Kind of Soul.


The issuing of "greatest-hits" albums reached a fever pitch during the 2000s, with no fewer than 15 different collections seeing the light by 2008. Live records proliferated as well, with the A&E Live by Request release Live in Concert hitting stores in 2003, a reissue of their Ecstasy on the Edge 1979 concert (titled simply In Concert this time around) in 2006, and the Live at the Troubadour two-CD/one-DVD set in 2008. As far as proper studio albums go, the 2000s were lean, with only three releases -- the aforementioned Do It for Love and Our Kind of Soul, topped off by Home for Christmas in 2006. A career-spanning box set appeared in 2009, titled Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall and John Oates.


During the 2010s, the duo were very active, both together and separately. Several Hall & Oates tours were mounted, and they performed together on American Idol and The Voice. In 2011, Hall released his fifth solo album, Laughing Down Crying, on Verve Forecast, and that same year Oates released a blues tribute album titled Mississippi Mile. Three years later, Oates drafted contemporary pop stars including Ryan Tedder and Hot Chelle Rae for Good Road to Follow. Also in 2014, the duo were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.


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This release finds Daryl and John in 1976, the year before the revolution of Punk. This is a lush recording in the vein of The Silver Album, with lots of strings and the Fender Rhodes at the fore of the mix. The opening number, Back Together Again, is a fine example of what one will find on this release.The immortal Rich Girl follows to splended effect. If you dig sing-songy songs, then this is for youl. Hell, this is probably the track which led you to find this record in the first place! My only complaint is that at 2.25, Rich Girl is far to short. I could sing it for days. An Oates-y piece, Crazy Eyes is a nice song. Reminicent of his work on Abandoned Luncheonette, and it is followed by Do What You Want, Be Who You Are. This is a mellow torch song that bleeds Philly. From there, the album goes down hill with weak cuts. These include Kerry (which, not surprisingly is a song by Daryl and some bootleg dude), London luck & Love, Room To Breathe, and You'll Never Learn. Thankfully, we have Falling, the final cut. This is a masterful song in which the album is redeemed and finally brought to absolution with the listener. While a trifle indulgent at over 6 minutes, we can be happy to know that it's a splendid listen! BTW This album is exceedingly hard to come across.




<a href="https://mir.cr/FYVW2YTL"> Daryl Hall n John Oates - Bigger Than Both Of Us (</a>  (flac   244mb)

01 Back Together Again 3:23
02 Rich Girl 2:23
03 Crazy Eyes 3:07
04 Do What You Want, Be What You Are 4:35
05 Kerry 3:47
06 London, Luck, and Love 2:56
07 Room to Breathe 4:09
08 You'll Never Learn 4:12
00 Falling 6:13


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Beauty on a Back Street isn't quite as accomplished as its two predecessors, yet it is more ambitious and diverse, as Hall & Oates begin to add some arena-rock conventions to their sound, particularly distorted guitars and anthemic choruses. On War Babies they had tried a similar attack, but on Beauty on a Back Street, the duo's songwriting was stronger, which meant that the instrumental approach didn't overwhelm the actual songs. Don't Change starts off the album, a bluesy R&B soul number sung with much earnest, followed by another soul song. You must be good is pretty bland, sounds more like an XTC song. The Empytness tells us that John Oates could sing, a decent song, followed by another soul/Jazzy song. Bigger Than both of us is probably the best song here and Bad habits has pretty much everything, rock, soul, jazz. Winged Bull is a salute to Led Zepp in my opinion, heavy and with pretty strong rhythms. The album closes with a John Oates song, sung as a ballad and is a good closer. Overall inconsistent, a bit heavy sound for a H&O album, with a lot of experimentation.  They definitely prove here that they aren't a one-trick pony. Hall & Oates have depth in both their hits and albums.



<a href="https://bayfiles.com/j9acTcf6p1/Drl_Hll_n_Jhn_Ots_Bt_On_A_Bck_Strt_zip">Daryl Hall n John Oates - Beauty On A Back Street</a> (flac   238mb)

01 Don't Change 3:30
02 Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Heart? 3:13
03 You Must Be Good for Something 3:28
04 The Emptyness 3:32
05 Love Hurts (Love Heals) 3:08
06 Bigger Than Both of Us 4:30
07 Bad Habits and Infections 6:00
08 Winged Bull 4:37
09 The Girl Who Used to Be 4:10

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Even in their 80s heyday, when the popular hipster viewpoint was that these guys were formulaic slaves to the hit, people in the know considered them one of the greatest live acts in the business. That's probably why they have so many live albums commercially available. Think about it, if the guys couldn't deliver the goods, would there really be so much live product out there? Which brings me to "Livetime." I know even H&O have distanced themselves from this, deriding it as having poor sound quality and characterizing it as an early-career embarrassment. Well, I beg to disagree. From the first vinyl copy I found in the cutout bin to the Japanese CD import I bought six years ago, I've always held this as one of best live albums I've ever heard. I understand that the vocal mic can sound a little thin, but it's not in that tinny, bootleg-sounding way. It actually makes this sound more intimate, like the small club it was recorded in. It gives the listener the feeling of being in on something that's about to explode all across the music world. And the band performances are committed, passionate and technically proficient - everything you'd want from a live performance. The guitars sound great. It's my belief that this album is home to the definitive versions of "I'm Just a Kid" and "The Emptyness," plus glorious romps through "Abandoned Luncheonette" and "Do what you Want" and a positively blistering take on "Room to Breathe." It's kind of funny that the "hits" shine the least, although the 8-minute version of "Sara Smile" is a nice curiosity.
 


<a href="https://multiup.org/75726c7ac72771a6838f036fbff82694"> Daryl Hall  n John Oates - Livetime</a>  (flac   278mb)


01  Rich Girl 3:36
02 The Emptyness 3:53
03 Do What You Want, Be What You Are 6:54
04 I'm Just a Kid (Don't Make Me Feel Like a Man) 5:27
05 Sara Smile 8:00
06 Abandoned Luncheonette 6:15
07 Room to Breathe 4:45

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The bombastic Philly Soul and West Coast rock flavours of the leading side draw ready comparisons with the earlier Bigger Than Both of Us, yet I think ...Red Ledge is not only a step towards their platinum-plated early 80s sound but also represents their most varied and best-balanced 70s collection. Ironically, the decision to forego session hands in favour of the duo's touring group has coincided with a sharper, slicker sound - shades of Steely Dan preoccupy Oates' immaculately-sculpted 'Melody for a Memory', while the glacial synths and staccato piano chords of the album opener set the aural agenda for hits like 'Kiss On My List' and 'Private Eyes'. It's not only the arrangements that turned a corner: a bitter, snarky streak having taken hold of Hall's lyricism of late - something that would become an overlooked facet of their appeal. This divine assholery is starkly illustrated in the glorous 'It's a Laugh', which is in some ways a more bitter, twisted 'She's Gone': where the pomp and circumstance of the earlier song seemed entirely earnest, here the Broadway-scope production is used to deliciously ironic effect. Oates isn't immune, either - 'Serious Music' is one of the most direct, vicious indictments of "art music" aesthetics ever put forth by a "Pop" artist. Add to these the Spector pummel 'The Last Time', the slow-burn of 'Have I Been Away too Long' and the flawlessly-built (if perhaps a trifle edge-less) Philly Soul of 'I Don't Wanna Lose You', and you have as good a first side as any. While, like Abandoned Luncheonette and Bigger than Both of Us before it, Red Ledge is ultimately front-loaded, the fall off is far less precipitous than earlier incidents and the now-standard "experimental" side (barring myopic "punk" misfire 'Alley Katz') generally vindicates itself well. Even pleasant filler like 'Pleasure Beach' and 'August Day' are worked up with such attention that the record remains quite convincing to the very end. Their most carefully-measured, confident 70s LP, highlighted by tight rock musicianship and excellent hi-fi production.



<a href="http://www.imagenetz.de/HvCX6 ">  Daryl Hall n John Oates - Along The Red Ledge</a> (flac   262mb)

01 It's a Laugh 3:49
02 Melody for a Memory 4:50
03 The Last Time 2:47
04 I Don't Wanna Lose You 3:45
05 Have I Been Away Too Long 4:19
06 Alley Katz 3:03
07 Don't Blame It on Love 3:53
08 Serious Music 4:07
09 Pleasure Beach 3:08
10 August Day 3:03

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RhoDeo 2041 Re Up 259

 Hello,


Here at Rho-xs visitor numbers have been stable but i did notice a big rise in re-up requests which points to my visitors spending more time at Rho-Xs (glad to be at service). Alas over the years i've lost access to a number of disks, specially the loss of my Aetix and Roots collection hinders my capability to re-up. Obviously the torrent world offers a solution, but this scene is dynamic and suffers the same fate as my posts , the hosts delete the file when demand has dropped, in the torrent world this even worse. Unfortunately this means whilst bigger names get revived the more obscure tend to completely disappear, a fate that is suffered by roots artists as an example Salif Keita a relative big name is nowhere to be found in flac these days (just one album) when a few years ago there were many titles to be had. Same goes for many a reggae artist and even in Aetix the choice of what is on offer is diminishing day by day. I'm doing my best to fulfill requests but it's difficult and in the future i will request you my visitor to give back the odd title that you downloaded via Rho-xs and repost it here.


13 correct requests for this week , 3 too early,  2  double, 1 very confused=people requesting at the wrong place, whatever another batch of 44re-ups (13.1gig)


These days i'm making an effort to re-up, it will satisfy a smaller number of people which means its likely the update will  expire relatively quickly again as its interest that keeps it live. Nevertheless here's your chance ... asks for re-up in the comments section at the page where the expired link resides, or it will be discarded by me. ....requests are satisfied on a first come first go basis. ...updates will be posted here remember to request from the page where the link died! To keep re-ups interesting to my regular visitors i will only re-up files that are at least 12 months old (the older the better as far as i am concerned), and please check the previous update request if it's less then a year old i won't re-up either.

Looka here , requests fulfilled up to October 3rd... N'Joy

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As announced please return if you have it

Caetano Veloso - Araca Azul
Mansour Seck - N'der Fouta Tooro Vol. 1
Mark E Smith died almost 3 years ago and bizarrely his albums all but disappeared
The Fall - Dragnet (Exp & Rem),
The Fall - Grotesque (Exp & Rem), ,
The Fall - Slates (Exp & Rem)
Gilberto Gil - Cérebro Eletrónico


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RhoDeo 2041 Expanse 12

 Hello, an interesting F1 race today at the Nurburg circuit Bottas who was on pole over did it to stay there and cooked his tires, later he did the same to his engine, exit Bottas, Hamilton coolly cruised home chased by Verstappen, these two might have overtaken the complete field but then a very unnesccesary safety car saw their lead of 1 min on # 3 Ricciardo go up in smoke, they did get fresher tires and Hamilton started improving a 16 year old lap record held by Schumacher only to see Verstappen take it in the final lap.. Anyway driver of the day was a german called in hours before qualifying hence last, but then on the day Nico Hülkenberg came in 8th wow! Over at Roland Garros an extremely tanned and aggressive Nadal blasted passed Djokovic and took his 20th Grand Slam title, equalling Roger Federer, there's something disturbing about his behaviour.....




Here today, Naturally my mission of trying to breakthough the wall of nonsense build by the supposed smartest men on the planet is continuing as chinks start to appear, their arrogant stupidity set us back decades if not more, electro-magnetics is clean energy and would have delivered us not only flying cars, but flying saucers aswell and who knows a pathway into other dimensions..Meanwhile The Expanse's Calibans War starts today.

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Galactic filaments are not kinetic phenomena.

Astronomers ponder the enigmatic structure of Galaxy NGC 1275. Multiple strands of material extend outward in light-years-long tendrils, enclosing it in a loose cocoon. The filaments are examples of ionized hydrogen atoms. Since hydrogen is composed of one electron and one proton, ionization reduces it to individual nucleons.

The hydrogen in NGC 1275 is in the plasma state. Solid, liquid and gas are the three states of matter most familiar to readers. Plasma is not a “substance”; it is an emergent phenomenon that comes from complex electrical activity. “Emergent” means: “arising as an effect of complex causes and cannot be analyzed simply as the sum of their effects.” Properties like filamentation, long-range attraction and short-range repulsion, cell-like differentiation, and characteristic instabilities indicate a system of interaction.

Since electricity is generated by charged particles in motion, the filaments in NGC 1275 are transmitting electromagnetic energy across vast distances. What holds these “transmission lines” together? In an Electric Universe, charge flow in plasma generates electromagnetic fields that constrict the current channel. Previous Picture of the Day articles point out that the constriction is known as a “Bennett pinch,” or “z-pinch.” Pinched electric filaments remain coherent over long distances because they wind around each other without coalescing, something like a twisted pair of electric wires.

It is well-known that Birkeland currents are probably the greatest long-range attractors in the Universe, with a force more about 39 orders of magnitude greater than gravity. Birkeland currents attract each other when they are far apart but repel each other when they are close, resulting in pairs of filaments spiraling around their common axes. This process can repeat, producing “cables” of pairs of pairs and so on.

Electric fields in such galaxy-sized currents accelerate charge carriers to near light speed. An electric field’s strength near an electrically charged object is defined as inversely proportional to the distance between the point and the object. However, according to retired Professor of Electrical Engineering, Dr. Donald Scott, the electric field between Birkeland currents in space falls off with the square root of the distance, increasing the attractive force.

These ideas contrast markedly with those from consensus astronomers: filamentation in NGC 1275 is because “…a supermassive black hole is blowing out jets of matter at nearly the speed of light”.

A Chandra X-ray Observatory , combined with radio information provided by the Very Large Array, reveals giant “bubbles” supposedly swept out by radiation from a central black hole. However, instead of “bubbles”, the formations are an unmistakable indication that Birkeland currents are “squeezing” plasma and charged dust into z-pinch zones.

Radio lobes, filaments, X-rays—all of those phenomena manifest electricity in space.

Stephen Smith

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It may be the greatest surprise for mainstream cosmologists since the dawn of the Space Age: the detection of powerful magnetic fields at all scales throughout the Universe. In recent years, with the ever finer detection of cosmic magnetism, astrophysicists have increasingly sought an answer to the problem — an answer which might somehow be compatible with acceptable, Big Bang cosmology.

It’s important to note, as we’ve done in numerous past episodes, that mainstream cosmologists did not predict the so-called magnetic universe. In fact, a telling glimpse into the prevailing thoughts on cosmic magnetism can be found in the 1999 NASA web item entitled, 'Do magnetic fields exist throughout space?' It states, “On the cosmological scale, there is no data to suggest that magnetic fields are present. They certainly are not important in the dynamics of the universe for any reasonable range of field strengths consistent with present observational constraints.”
[Source: https://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/as...]

However, today, not only do mainstream cosmologists view cosmic magnetism as important, some astrophysicists are counting on mysterious magnetism to resolve ad hoc some of the biggest evidentiary problems for the Big Bang hypothesis. In this episode, we’ve asked retired professor of Electrical Engineering Dr. Donald E. Scott to offer his thoughts on the real source of cosmic magnetism in our Electric Universe.


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The Expanse is a series of science fiction novels (and related novellas and short stories) by James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. The first novel, Leviathan Wakes, was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2012. The series as a whole was nominated for the Best Series Hugo Award in 2017.

As of 2019, The Expanse is made up of eight novels and eight shorter works - three short stories and five novellas. At least nine novels were planned, as well as two more novellas. The series was adapted for television by the Syfy Network, also under the title of The Expanse, then they dropped the ball despite the succes of the series, i suspect the whole thing got too serious (expensive) so once again Syfy network proved they can't handle success. Anyway fans were outraged and got Amazon Prime to pick it up for a fourth and fifth series and considering the mountain of money Jeff Bezos sits on i suspect several more as long as the fans keep cheering.

The Expanse is set in a future in which humanity has colonized much of the Solar System, but does not have interstellar travel. In the asteroid belt and beyond, tensions are rising between Earth's United Nations, Mars, and the outer planets.

The series initially takes place in the Solar System, using many real locations such as Ceres and Eros in the asteroid belt, several moons of Jupiter, with Ganymede and Europa the most developed, and small science bases as far out as Phoebe around Saturn and Titania around Uranus, as well as well-established domed settlements on Mars and the Moon.

As the series progresses, humanity gains access to thousands of new worlds by use of the ring, an artificially sustained Einstein-Rosen bridge or wormhole, created by a long dead alien race. The ring in our solar system is two AU from the orbit of Uranus, and passing through it leads to a hub of starless space approximately one million kilometers across, with more than 1,300 other rings, each with a star system on the other side. In the center of the hub, which is also referred to as the "slow zone", an alien space station controls the gates and can also set instantaneous speed limits on objects inside of the hub as a means of defense.


The story is told through multiple main point-of-view characters. There are two POV characters in the first book and four in books 2 through 5. In the sixth and seventh books, the number of POV characters increases, with several characters having only one or two chapters. Tiamat's Wrath returns to a more limited number with five. Every book also begins and ends with a prologue and epilogue told from a unique character's perspective.

Novels
#     Title             Pages     Audio     
1     Leviathan Wakes     592     20h 56m
2     Caliban's War         595     21h     
3     Abaddon's Gate     539     19h 42m
4     Cibola Burn         583     20h 7m
5     Nemesis Games     544     16h 44m
6     Babylon's Ashes     608     19h 58m
7     Persepolis Rising     560     20h 34m
8     Tiamat's Wrath         544     19h 8m
9     Unnamed final novel

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Caliban's War
Eighteen months after the events of Leviathan Wakes, the solar system is in a precarious balance while they watch unknowable events unfold on the planet Venus. Earth and Mars are still poised for battle, and someone didn't recognize the warning that the Eros Incident held for humanity.

Major character arcs

James Holden is the captain of the salvaged Martian warship Rocinante. He and his crew have worked for the Outer Planets Alliance for 18 months since what’s become known as the Eros Incident, and the job just doesn’t feel right. While assisting a botanist in the search for his daughter, Holden comes across signs that people are still trying to tame the protomolecule, and the threat comes very close to home. Breaking his OPA ties, he becomes an ever-more-important piece in the four-way chess game for who will run the solar system.

Chrisjen Avasarala is a high-ranking UN official who knows how to get things done. Plugged in to all sources of information, she’s simultaneously monitoring events on Earth, Mars, Ganymede and Venus, though the last one is the toughest to predict what will happen next. Seeing shifts coming but not able to completely grasp what they mean, she accepts a post that takes her away from the action knowing she is playing her expected part until it is time to do the unexpected. Then, she meets James Holden for the first time aboard his ship, trying to defuse a solar-system-wide war.

Bobbie Draper is a Martian Marine stationed on Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s largest moons and known as the breadbasket of the outer planets. After she witnesses the brutal defeat and destruction of military forces on both sides of a conflict by a third party, she is taken to Earth to participate in peace talks, but doesn’t follow the party line and gets in trouble with her leaders. Now helping Chrisjen Avasarala, she must quickly adapt to interplanetary politics and office intrigue. Later moving her duties to space, her military training comes in handy once again.

Praxidike Meng is a botanist working on Ganymede when tensions erupt. His daughter is lost in the chaos, and he finds information that she was actually taken from her daycare before the action. He tries to find her in the decaying conditions of his home, but latches on to James Holden as a source of hope. Eventually becoming the face of the crisis at Ganymede, his efforts to find his daughter’s abductors have interstellar ramifications.

Plot summary

On Ganymede, Mei Meng is kidnapped from her preschool by her doctor. Several hours later, Earth and Martian space marines are attacked and effortlessly killed by a super soldier, with Bobbie Draper, a Martian marine, the only survivor. Earth and Mars begin a shooting war which throws Ganymede into chaos. In the aftermath, Mei's father Praxidike Meng fruitlessly searches for his daughter in the midst of the societal breakdown in the Ganymede colony.

Several months later, the crew of the Rocinante are tasked with delivering emergency aid to Ganymede. Meng spots James Holden during a food riot and asks the crew to help find his daughter. They agree and are able to trace her kidnappers to unused tunnels on the moon. Holden, Meng, and ship mechanic Amos Burton discover a secret lab. In the midst of a shootout with lab security, they inadvertently release another super soldier who kills some of the lab personnel. In the wake of the battle, the crew find remnants of the protomolecule and the corpse of Mei's friend, who was being treated by Mei's doctor for immunodeficiency. The crew rush to escape the station as more chaos erupts around them, and are able to make it back aboard the Rocinante.

Draper is brought to the peace talks between Earth and Mars occurring on Earth, giving testimony regarding the super soldier attack on Ganymede. She violates diplomatic protocol and is dismissed by the Martian delegation, but is then hired by Chrisjen Avasarala, who is leading the UN negotiations. Draper discovers that Avasarala's assistant is betraying her, leading Avasarala to conclude that her UN superiors are trying to get rid of her, from which she deduces that a group within the UN is responsible for the super soldier attack. Avasarala allows Draper to be brought along as her bodyguard on a slow-moving yacht headed to Ganymede on an ostensible relief mission.

On their way to Tycho station, the Rocinante crew discovers a super soldier stowed away in their cargo hold. They are able to lure out the creature using radioactive bait before vaporizing it with the ship's exhaust. The Rocinante is damaged during the encounter, but the crew learn more about the super soldiers. Holden confronts Fred Johnson, who he believes controls the only other sample of the protomolecule. Johnson denies involvement with the Ganymede incident and fires Holden's crew. They help Meng release a video asking for help searching for Mei, raising enough money to continue the search. Upon receiving information about Mei's doctor, Meng deduces that the super soldiers are being created on a base on Io. With the Rocinante repaired, they set out to recover Mei.

On board the yacht, Avasarala sees Meng's video appeal and learns that a UN detachment is heading to intercept the Rocinante. The crew of the yacht prevent her from warning Holden, claiming that their communication systems are broken. When they refuse her demands to get the yacht repaired, Avasarala has Draper take control of the vessel. Avasarala sends a warning to Holden, and she and Draper board a racing pinnace to rendezvous with the Rocinante. After meeting Holden's crew, Avasarala and Draper share notes of the super soldiers. Realizing that they are several days away from being destroyed by the UN detachment, Avasarala convinces the crew to let her send this information to her contacts within the UN to prevent an all-out war.

Draper and Avasarala convince the Martian fleet to help protect the Rocinante. This culminates in a space battle between the UN detachment, the Martian forces, and a second UN fleet loyal to Avasarala. With the UN Secretary General recalling the admiral hostile to the Rocinante, the battle ends in victory for the Martians and Avasarala's faction. The crew lands on Io, where Amos and Meng rescue Mei along with other immunodeficient children. Draper kills a super soldier using knowledge about its capabilities. The crew heads back to Luna, where the people responsible for the super soldier project are brought to justice. Avasarala is promoted, Meng is hired to oversee efforts to restore Ganymede, Draper returns to Mars, and the Rocinante takes a contract escorting a supply ship. Throughout the story, the solar system had been watching changes on Venus, which culminate with the launch of something unknown as the book ends.




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Sundaze 2041

 Hello,  the second wave is here, interestingly the Asians (China, Japan, South Korea) seem to have eliminated corona the first time around, in Europe, Italy who suffered first and had the longest severest lockdown this time around reap the reward with by far the least corona patients, Spain not so lucky, Madrid in lockdown, in fact all Metropolitan area's in NW Europe see a big increase in patients even Germany but  they maneged the crises best the first time and thus started from a much lower base. Anyway this is a devious virus, most young people aren't effected much, but suffer from a breakdown in social life. The rest needs to keep their heads down..As hospitals start filling up, other operations get rescheduled with sometimes dire consequences for cancer patients particularly, sigh, this virus will be with us for many more months.....

Today's Artist is one of the founders of the US's electronic music scene ..... N'Joy

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 Richard Bone
(born February 3, 1952 - Atlanta, GA)

     Interest in creating music began very early in Richard's life. By his early teens he was already creating experimental sound compositions. Several years later he discovered electronic music and the album The United States of America where he first heard cutting edge electronics used in a rock format. He was greatly influenced by that LP and the solo works of Joseph Byrd, which eventually led him to start creating music using primitive synthesizers. Formal training in the arts began in the seventies when he studied drama for four years at the New York Academy of Theatrical Arts. His passion for sound design led him to create soundtracks and scores for several off-Broadway companies working in experimental theater. His atmospheric musical soundscapes were used by the New York Conservatory in several of their plays and videos.

     Richard's first official foray into the music business was with a demo that was produced by Patti Smith's legendary guitarist, Lenny Kaye. Driving forces behind the demo were Lenny and Danny Fields, both well known in the rock field. For the next few years Richard performed at locations along the East Coast while continuing with his theater studies. His first American single was the 45-rpm Pirate the Islands/Headlines Have It released with his band Bone on his own Rumble Records in 1979. The B-side Headlines went on to be covered by the Dutch band Urban Heroes as their first worldwide single. Their second LP also included another song written by Richard entitled When Worlds Collide that would have been one of four tracks featured on the double 45 called Nobody Discos on Pluto. However, that follow up was never released. His next releases were two abstract works, Life in Video City and Quiz Party, both released on very limited cassette by the Los Angeles based Eurock label.

     In 1981 he joined the legendary band Shox Lumania whose Live at the Peppermint Lounge became one of the first releases on the visionary RIOR label. Shox Lumania featured Stephanie Kaye (Lenny Kaye's wife), Anton Sanko (who went on to record Solitude Standing with Suzanne Vega) and Richard on synthesizers. They were a very theatrical band with as much emphasis on choreography and costume as music. It was the best of both worlds for Richard. The darlings of NYC, it was not uncommon to find everyone from Klaus Nomi, Souixie Souix to David Bowie & Devo in their dressing rooms.

     During that same time period Richard recorded and released a solo 7" called Digital Days/Alien Girl on his own Rumble Records that was quickly picked up by Survival Records in the UK. While with Survival Records he released two LPs - Brave Tales and Exspectacle; four EPs - The Beat is Elite, Joy of Radiation, The Real Swing, Living in Partytown; two 45s - Digital Days/Alien Girl and Joy/Do Angels Dance; and singles for the Mind & Matter, Dance Report and Art of Survival compilation. His single of Joy... reached #1 on the dance charts in Hong Kong. From 1981 to 1983 he also produced the 7" Jolene/Who's on Top? for the band Rubber Rodeo as well as contributing musically on two of their other releases. In 1983 Richard's video for his single "Alien Girl" was included on Danspak, an experimental Sony video. In 1984 he was asked to contribute to the double cassette called Film Noir - American/European Style released on Ding Dong Records. His track was entitled "Far From Yesterday (parts 1&2)" on that limited edition compilation cassette. By this time Richard was firmly placed in the British alternative charts and was even referred to as the American version of Howard Jones by the British press.

     As Survival Records continued to move in a dance oriented direction, Richard began to find his musical interests shifting away from the 80's New Wave club scene so on his own he recorded several experimental works. Emerging Melodies (Rumble Records) was the soundtrack to a video art project that aired on award-winning cable and broadcast television in America (USA Cable & Co-Directions in NYC). "Alternate Music for the Hindenberg Lounge" was included on the American Music Compilation released by the Eurock label in 1982. That same year Richard also recorded an experimental concept album called Grey Hideaway that was never released. One track from that work however, was used in 1986 on an early AIDS awareness music video also entitled "Grey Hideaway" - part of a longer video called "Chance of a Lifetime". Around the mid to late 80's Survival Records folded and Richard decided to take a break from music for a few years.

     In 1991 Richard started his own label, Quirkworks Laboratory Discs, allowing him the freedom to create music of a more experimental nature and remain in control of his musical direction. His first two releases, Quirkwork in 1993 and X Considers Y  in 1994, were somewhat similar to the synth-pop style of his Survival days and were also the last full-length recordings that featured Richard's vocal work. The release of the instrumental Ambiento in 1994 introduced a new ambient direction for Richard's music.

     Next came Vox Orbita in 1995, an upbeat ambient work full of samples, rhythms and a bit of a Laurie Anderson influence. The Grace Pro disc Media Works followed featuring six tracks of Richard's; two from Vox Orbita, two from Ambiento and two tracks that were previously unreleased - "Mi Mundo" and "The Deluxe Set". Richard also contributed tracks in 1995 on two benefit CD's - "Etherea Arriving" on the Maine Vocals compilation and "Overstated Papers" (Richard's very last vocal work) on the Anon compilation. That same year he also contributed tracks on two Alternative Press Samplers; #5 contained "X Considers Y" from X Considers Y and an alternate mix of "El Gato Negro" from Vox Orbita . Sampler #7 contained "Vox 9" from Vox Orbita and the previously unreleased "Illicit Behavior".

     By the time his next disc The Eternal Now was released in 1996, Richard had decided to pursue instrumental music exclusively. The Eternal Now , containing the two separate suites "Zone" and "The Millennium Pages", was recorded only after sunset, by candlelight. His most personal recording, the creation of The Eternal Now was the beginning of Richard's journey into the mystic. While recording The Eternal Now , he simultaneously recorded another CD, Metaphysic Mambo - an upbeat work similar in style to Ambiento and Vox Orbita , released on the Reversing Recordings label. That same year "In the Shadow of Rain", a track from Vox Orbita was used on the Russian compilation Back to the Universe and an untitled track was used on the Staalplaat compilation called The Answering Machine Solution.

     His next project was to be an EP length recording of electronically structured pieces entitled Solo Cog . Although the work was completed, it was never released. In 1997 the mini-compilation A Survey of Remembered Things was released containing five tracks of Richard's and four by electronic percussionist John Orsi. The compilation entitled em:t 1197 from t:me Recording LTD was also released in 1997 and included "Vox 2.5", an alternate mix of "Vox 2" from Vox Orbita. Also that year, Headcandy Productions released their first video entitled Sidney's Psychedelic Adventure that included "Komarov's Fire" from A Survey of Remembered Things.

     In 1998 Richard released the highly acclaimed Electropica, his homage to Bossa Nova masters Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luiz Bonfa and Joao Gilberto. The rhythmic Electropica came about from a rather mystical occurrence at a record store in 1996 causing Richard to devote a year of his life to the study of 60's bossa nova and the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim in particular. Also in 1998 Richard began working with Mike Griffin at Hypnos Recordings. He recorded the track "Via Mycropia" for the first Hypnos compilation, The Other World and his next disc, the atmospheric The Spectral Ships was released on Hypnos near the end of 1998. That same year he recorded the track "Murmurio" for the Halcyon Recordings compilation Oscillations and co-produced and contributed musically to Mary Zema's Songs of Early Paradise that was released on the Quirkworks label.

     Early in 1999 Richard released the rhythmic Coxa, his follow-up to Electropica. This work however, was more influenced by the 60's jazz masters Creed Taylor, Rudy Van Gelder, Cal Tjader and Dave Pike. Later that year he released his next atmospheric disc, Ether Dome, on the Hypnos label. The compilation Distillation, featuring tracks from earlier Quirkworks releases plus two unreleased ambient works was also released in 1999 on the Halcyon Recordings label. The Electroshock compilation Electroacoustic Music V 3 was released that year as well and included a track by Richard entitled "Elusia, I Can See!"

      Ascensionism, influenced by the Ascension Schools and the beat poets, was released August 15, 2000 concluding the trilogy that began in 1998 with Electropica. Well received by fans and radio alike, Ascensionism quickly reached and held the #1 spot on the New Age Voice Top 100 charts for two months, remaining in the Top 10 for 4 consecutive months. The November 2000 issue of New Age Voice magazine included an interview with Richard as their featured artist and Ambient Visions conducted an in depth interview with Richard that was released November 30, 2000.

      Richard's next ambient project Tales from the Incantina, inspired by ancient Toltec philosophy and travels to the Mayan/Toltec ruins in Mexico was released April 3, 2001. This recording made its debut at #6 on the New Age Voice Top 100 for April 2001 airplay and remained in the Top 10 for two months. Tales from the Incantina marks the first release for INDIUM, an ambient division of Quirkworks Laboratory Discs. In May of 2001, Richard released his first D.A.M. CD, Alternate Worlds Vol. 1 which included previously unreleased tracks from Tales from the Incantina and Ascensionism as well as several other unreleased tracks exclusively at MP3.com.

      Richard's next rhythmic recording Disorient, was released March 5, 2002 on the Quirkworks label. Shortly after its release, Disorient made its debut at #1 on the New Age Voice Top 100 charts and remained there for two consecutive months. In April 2002 Richard completed the re-recording of "Joy of Radiation", a vocal track he first recorded in 1983. This track was going to be featured on a tribute site devoted to the Survival artists of the early eighties, but the project never materialized. In June of 2002 an agreement was reached between Richard and Lyra Studios making available twenty-two downloadable tracks as background music for the multiplayer online role-playing game Underlight. Richard's latest ambient CD Indium, was released by Electroshock Records on Dec. 10, 2002. In addition to several previously unreleased tracks, this CD also contains a thirty minute piece Richard included on a limited release ambient video also entitled Indium.

      Harmony with Ambience, a multi-artist compilation organized by the Japanese label Windfarm Records, was released June 1, 2003. This disc included Richard's track "Dzibana" from his CD Tales from the Incantina. On August 10, 2003 Alternate Realities was released on the Spiralight label featuring nine alternate mixes and unreleased tracks of Richard's work. This CD made the #11 position on the New Age Reporter charts for September airplay, the Backroad's Music and Wind and Wire lists of Top Recordings for 2003 and the Star's End list of significant releases of 2003 among other honors.

      Richard's next rhythmic recording was The Reality Temples that released June 30, 2004 on the Spiralight label. This disc debuted at the #6 position on the New Age Reporter Top 100 chart for August airplay and was nominated for the 2004 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards' Best Electronic Album. Orlandomaniac Music released Untold Tales  on April 15th -- a CD of nineteen previously unheard vocal demo tracks Richard recorded during his early Survival years of 1979 - 85. Other 2004 projects included a various artist compilation CD from Spiralight Recordings called Ambienism Vol. One featuring a new track by Richard entitled "Stillness Repeating" that was released March 15, 04.

      On September 20, 2005 Richard released Saiyuji, the final recording of the trilogy begun with Disorient and The Reality Temples. Saiyuji quickly climbed the New Age Reporter Top 10 charts and was nominated for the 2005 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards' Best Ambient Album.

      Richard released Vesperia (Music for Vespers at the First Congregational Church of Holliston, Massachusetts) on May 2, 2006 and a limited edition DVD entitled The Vesperia Videos shortly thereafter. His ambient recording Serene Life of Microbes was released October 17, 2006 on the AD Music label.

      In March of 2007 Richard released Via Poetica, a collaboration with poet/vocalist Lisa Indish, and Experiments '80-'82, a limited edition CD featuring selected tracks from his cassette only 1980 recordings Life in Video City and Quiz Party along with three tracks he contributed to the 1982 American Music Compilation LP. Richard also completed a recording of new material entitled Infinite Plastic Creation that released September 10, 2007 and was awarded  the 2007 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards' Best Electronic Album. Two additional recordings, Connection Failed - a collection of previously unreleased ambient tracks created as backing tracks for collaborations and Songs From The Analog Attic - a collection of unreleased vocal works recorded between 1992 and 1998, were also made available just before the end of 2007.

    Projects of 2008 included a DVD & soundtrack CD release entitled Short Waves - Brief Excursions in Surreal Video that released March 20, 2008 and an ambient recording entitled Sudden Departure that was released September 16, 2008. Sudden Departure has just been nominated the 2008 NAR Lifestyle Music Awards' Best Ambient and Best Electronic Album.

    Richard released the ambient work The Ghosts of Hanton Village on September 15, 2009. His next recording was in March 2010 when he released his first iTunes application Mind Environs and a 3-track EP of the same name. On October 19, 2010 a CD of archival tracks entitled Beleaguered Blossoms (selected artifacts 1993-2009) was released. Late October 2010 also saw the release of the Christmas album ChristmasAD - The First Snow that included two of Richard's holiday tracks.

     More recent projects have included a May 2011 release that featured remixes of selected tracks of Richard's music assembled by Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi entitled Adaptors, and a July 2011 release of new material entitled XesseX.

     A collection entitled Anthology was released as a download only on March 25, 2013 and a recording of all new material, Images From A Parallel World released April 24, 2013 -- both on the AD Music label. A vinyl EP entitled Cranium Fizz became available September 2013.

     Releases for 2014 included a recording of all new matierial entitled Vertical Life that released in March, and a boxed-set of long out-of-print material from the years 1979 - 1985 entitled Vaulted Visions from Vinyl-on-Demand.

    In 2015 there were three releases: Brave Sketches - a double LP set released by Orlandomaniac Music, Obtuse Tantrums, a 7" vinyl EP from AttractiveCO, and the CD Involution Vol. 1 that was released by Quirkworks on September 23, 2015.

    Richard completed a dark ambient project entitled Nibiru (jan 2018), a CD recording on the Mega Dodo Label - Age of Falconry (july 2017), and issued a very limited-edition USB only recording entitled AERA (may, 2016).

    Most recently Richard created Empyrean Castles and A Garden of Invited Flowers in 2019. In 2020, he's already working on an excellent album.


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 Richard Bone trains his wry eye and his wicked sense of musical humor backwards to the psychedelic era of incense, black lights, and the dawning of the West's fascination with East Indian mysticism on The Reality Temples, his latest exercise in funky rhythms, smooth cyber-jazzy melodies and laid back grooves. Once again, he proves adept at producing true fusion music, this time melding ethnic percussion and East Indian musicality (notably, a fair amount of sitar sounds) with his patented mellow keyboards and adding a dash of '60s acid-drenched spices. The result is not as immediately "likable" as some of his previous efforts, but that's because the music here reveals its worth and craft more slowly. Here is an album that you need to invest some time in, as it unfurls its multiple layers (once again, Bone excels at production techniques and engineering) bit by bit.

     "Infinite Oz" starts the album off with lots of panning effects on playful wah-wah guitar, then brings midtempo trap kit drums and bongos into the mix, soon joined by electric piano (which carries the main melody) and some tasteful vibe work. The track has an air of playful mysticism to it, an interesting juxtaposition to be sure. "Between the World and a Wall" is typical of the rest of the CD, as the music has a more overtly "serious" side to it, as well as some subtle Bone-ish winks and nods. Here, he first introduces the sitar-like keyboard that is heard elsewhere on the album, as well as a more snaky and sultry East Indian sound. As usual, Bone adds his assorted keyboards and beats in layers, gradually building up multiple levels of each. A zither-like instrument takes the lead on this cut, along with some great soprano sax and, of course, the typical spot-on blend of organic and electronic percussion.     "A Boy in the Garden of Gastille" is possibly the most laid back song on The Reality Temples, opening with a languid flute line, joined by panning sitar-like keyboards and ultra-lush strings, eventually featuring a soprano sax lead again. When beats are introduced, they don't change the tone of the piece as much as inject an added element of movement, rather than the earlier drifting sense of peace.

     Of course, this wouldn't be a Richard Bone album without some good-natured puns in the titles, and here we have "Come Back, Little Shiva" a mixture of slow sexy ethnic hand percussion, Eastern sounding wind instruments, and chill-out beats and synths, with the added oddity of what I swear sounds like a conch shell thrown in for good measure. Bone mixes new age keyboards with haunting and mysterious pan-African desert melodies and drums/percussion on "Theme From an Imaginary Caravan" (another sly bit of titling, that one). One of the more lively tunes is next, "Impossible Ships" although it takes a little while to get there. Panned sitar notes, swirling organ chords, and lilting flutes open the piece, with some phased guitar samples. Out of nowhere, Bone throws in these cool retro synths (the type used by, for example, The Who on "Won't Get Fooled Again"), lush orchestral strings, that smoky and plaintive sax of his, and relaxing but emphatic chill out beats. It's a standout track on this solid album.     The Reality Temples provides ample evidence that Richard Bone is continuing to evolve from earlier efforts, allowing his music to migrate into previously unexplored territory. Still, he retains many of the elements that have engendered him to his loyal fans, notably his expert integration of electro-organic beats/rhythms with keyboards that combine jazz, funk, and (now, more prominent) world music textures with inventive production techniques and a sly wit. Obviously, the man is far from running out of fresh ideas and I can't see it happening any time in the future either. It goes without saying that Richard's latest gets a "highly recommended"



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01 Infinite Oz 5:55
02 Between the World and a Wall 5:14
03 A Boy in the Garden of Gastille 5:40
04 Espiritus Jai 4:09
05 Tale of the Pomegranate Forest 5:54
06 Come Back Little Shiva 6:06
07 Theme for an Imaginary Caravan 6:22
08 Impossible Ships 6:34
09 A Lovely Day for Ballooning 6:20


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 This is the final installment in the three part work started with Disorient and continued with The Reality Temples. Like the previous works that connect with Oriental Mysteries and Western Philosophies, the name of this work Saiyuji and it is taken from a Buddhist temple in Singapore.


By Any Other Name is a delightful opening to this CD, with the wonderful keyboard work Richard is so well known for. Melodic, mysterious, and mystifying, the work is soothing. There is a beat; a gentle swaying rhythm to this piece.

Saiyuji (dawn) opens with an analog synthesizer beat in the familiar zero/one or on/off pattern. It almost has a very Eastern feel to it, tinkling with symbols and develops an electronic beat. The addition of what could be Bali Bells adds another dimension to this construct which again features his well designed keyboard augmentation. Vagabond Messiah starts out as celestial space music, picks up on a very well defined tribal beat, and flows very gracefully into a composition that beacons you to get up and move your body to its sultry melody.
Oblique Heaven starts with an electronic beat, simple in nature. It surrounds itself with some electronic backfill that builds with keyboard chords and finds its way into a charming melody. This piece is exemplary of the build and blend structure that this CD is all about.

My Indelicate Star starts with the old, familiar analog synthesizer we remember from early synthesizer works; the structured rhythm of zero and one that we became familiar with from older master works. Added to this is the familiar sound of analog synthesizer “strings” playing wistfully against the beat. This is over layered with Richard Bone’s spacey keyboard structures to create a very obvious blend of the older technology in harmony with the new. A very lovely work masterly crafted. The Road to Ahamkara is a much bolder piece, starting out strong and well defined in its beat, demanding attention as the mood shifts. The rhythms are almost jazzy, overlaid with keyboard melody that marches along in time with the beat. A nice composition with a flavor all its own.

Aquaville starts off with keyboard chords that build staggered steps into a very Latin rhythm; soft, sexy, very daring. This piece is like silk as it flows very gently through your mind, with keyboard backfill that allows the piano to define the melody.

Improbable Earth starts out with the now familiar bass zero-one synthesizer beat and moves into the piano melody. This piece is more defined by the zero-one beat than any other rhythm, as it floats on the border of space music, being defined rather than allowed to drift freely. A nice contrast is offered and it is very original in design.

Saiyuji (dusk) is sort of reprised at the closing of the CD, with the same beat as (dawn) picked up a bit more at the opening of the work. The overlaid melody is a variation on the (dawn) work but much more daring. It takes off on its own, still reminiscent of the (dawn) piece but it becomes its own composition. The rhythms pick up in the piece as it very boldly brings this CD to a close, again in contrast to the opening work which was wistful and soothing. Again, this is a piece that beacons you to move your body in time with the rhythms and it is a good, strong finish to this CD.

The videos that are included “are from a continuing series of ambient visualization by Richard Bone”. The one for By Any Other Name is a series of slow motion/stop action images of roses in bloom. The other included video is for the track called Improbable Earth. The website has a third video for Aquaville.

I always find Richard Bone’s works to be original, very well structured and enjoyable to listen to. This CD does not fail in any of these categories. This is ambient at its most innovative. It can be played to be appreciated, yet it still maintains the ability to blend with the background creating a peaceful soundscape for your environment. It is always a pleasure to hear new creations from Richard Bone.



<a href="https://bayfiles.com/raK4raeep7/Rchrd_Bn_Syj_zip">Richard Bone - Saiyuj</a> ( flac 345mb)

01 By Any Other Name 5:41
02 Saiyuji (Dawn) 7:18
03 Vagabond Messiah 7:19
04 Oblique Heaven 7:22
05 My Indelicate Star 7:13
06 The Road To Ahamkara 7:01
07 Aquaville 6:00
08 Improbable Earth 4:25
09 Saiyuji (Dusk) 6:51

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Vesperia, which was commissioned specifically for vespers service at the Holliston church, is divided into four parts of gracious & serene electronic ambience. The album concludes with a scored reading of a poem by Lisa Louise Indish which perfectly sums up the inspirational tone of Vesperia. The music transcends religious sectarianism, however, and is intended as a soundtrack for anyone interested in the journey inward and the power of thought. It was directly inspired by the writings of Ernest Holmes, Florence Shinn and Raymond Holliwell. The tracks have a cathredral type resonance wihtout being religious in tone.All the tracks are very relaxing and meditative and while respectfully sombre the tracks have a lightness to them that is engaging.



<a href="https://mir.cr/XZL7EPRU">   Richard Bone - Vesperia  </a> ( flac 196mb)

01 Part One 10:30
02 Part Two 10:08
03 Part Three 6:49
04 Part Four 10:21
05 Epilogue - A Poem by Lisa Louise Indish 2:23

“Vesperia Epilogue”

The sun is rising.
I feel It touching my face.
It is Source.  It is God.  It is You.  It is me.
Warmth penetrating my being.
My steps reach out with toes aligned to earth,
Knowing it is where I must go
And there I Am.
Breathing, Breathing, Breathing,
Inhale – Exhale.
I am ready to receive and yet ready to let go,
You are All, this I feel and know.
I walk Your paths so carefully cleared.
I see what I need, want and desire.
It all stems back to You.
Circles.  Spirals.  Roundness of woman, of life,
It never ends.  It continues.
It draws, colors, creates and then re-creates
What It wishes without question or wonder.
As I send out I await Your response.
It comes gently to my ears
As a caressing wind,
A leaf cascading to the ground,
and I am filled with here and now, joy and love,
tomorrow and today.
And in this moment I am blessed.
As I breathe in what I long for, I receive.
I embrace You and I thank You.

Lisa Louise Indish
Copyright March 3, 2006
    
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Richard Bone’s Serene Life of Microbes is a tranquil dark ambient release that blurs the lines between electronic music and ambient sound. The music is primarily electronic, but also includes piano and environmental sounds.The nine tracks vary a lot in their sound, but have enough common elements to give the albuma cohesive sound. For example, the first track, Attenuation, watery noise effects that give the effect of submersing the listener into an exotic electronic space. As the track develops, Bone adds muted synth strings and effects and arpeggiated synths. The track flows smoothly into The Seduction of Dr. Pasteur, a gorgeous drone piece that layers loops of drifting washes of sounds to create a lovely timeless effect. Other highlights are Thermatoga, a dark ambient piece that combines alternating synth chords with more melodic electric piano and Autotrophic Light, a quirky sequence-based track.The Serene Life of Microbes doesn’t fit easily into categories. It combines the off-kilter sensibility of Eno’s short tone-poems more of an American space music sensibility.




<a href="http://www.imagenetz.de/stmV6">Richard Bone - Serene Life Of Microbes</a> ( flac 228mb)

01 Attenuation 7:25
02 The Seduction of Dr. Pasteur 8:10
03 Protozoa, mon amour 5:49
04 Autotrophic Light 3:46
05 Evolution Primitive 6:58
06 This Radiant Life 6:20
07 Thermatoga 5:35
08 Archaea Apart 5:11
09 Going Dormant 6:22


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