Humidity (album)
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{{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = Humidity
| Type = live
| Longtype =
| Artist = [[Robert Rich (musician)|Robert Rich]]
| Cover = Humidity_album_cover.jpg
| Released = [[2000]]
| Recorded = [[April 2]], [[1998]] at [[KZSU]], [[Stanford University]], [[May 9]], [[1998]] at Beyond Baroque in [[Venice, California]] and [[May 10]], [[1998]] at Moby Disc in [[Pasadena]], [[California]]
| Genre = [[Ambient music|Ambient]]
| Length = 182:05
| Label = [[Hypnos (record lable)|Hypnos]]
| Producer = [[Robert Rich (musician)|Robert Rich]]
| Reviews = *[[Allmusic]] {{Rating-5|3}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:a1e67uu020ja link]
*[[Piero Scaruffi]] 6/10 [http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/rich.html link]
| Last album = ''[[Seven Veils]]''<br/>(1998)
| This album = '''''Humidity'''''<br/>(2000)
| Next album = ''[[Somnium]]''<br/>(2001)
}}
'''''Humidity''''' (2000) is an album by the [[United States|American]] [[Ambient music|ambient]] musician [[Robert Rich (musician)|Robert Rich]]. It is a three disc set of live material recorded in [[1998]].
Disc one was recorded on [[April 2]], [[1998]] at [[Stanford University]]’s [[KZSU]] radio station as part of their annual Day of Noise event. Disc two was recorded on [[May 9]], [[1998]] at the Beyond Music Sound Festival in [[Venice, California]]. Disc three was recorded on [[May 10]], [[1998]] during an in-store concert at the Moby Disc in [[Pasadena, California|Pasadena]], [[California]].
The composition for track two of disc one was originally released on the 1993 multi-artist compilation ''DeepNet''. Track four of disc one and track five of disc three were co-composed with Brian “[[Lustmord]]” Williams and were originally released on Rich and Lustmord’s 1995 collaboration ''[[Stalker (album)|Stalker]]''. Track two of disc three was originally composed for Rich’s 1994 collaboration with [[Lisa Moskow]], ''[[Yearning (album)|Yearning]]''. Track four of disc three is a reworking of Rich’s 1994 release ''[[Night Sky Replies]]''. All other material on this album was improvised.
==Track listing==
===Disc one===
#”Lost Caverns of [[Caryatis]]” - 12:55
#”Bioelectric Plasma” - 7:33
#”Demilitarized Zone” - 14:16
#”Synergistic Perceptions” - 10:52
#”Ceramic Tincture” - 6:28
#”Submission to [[Pele (mythology)|Pele]]” - 7:22
#”Humidity Toward the Troposphere” - 14:25
===Disc two===
#”Beyond Part 1” - 16:26
#”Beyond Part 2” - 6:43
#”Beyond Part 3” - 6:52
#”Beyond Part 4” - 6:13
#”Beyond Part 5” - 3:51
#”Beyond Part 6” - 7:14
===Disc three===
#”Steel Harmonics” - 7:45
#”Nada” - 6:05
#”Cloud Relapse” - 7:04
#”Nightsky Reprise” - 16:56
#”Hidden Refuge” - 9:02
#”In a Miasma of Malarial Delusions” - 15:51
[[Category:Robert Rich albums]]
[[Category:2000 albums]]
[[Category:Live albums]]