Robert Rich & Markus Reuter - Incubation (2025) (Hi-Res)

When Markus stayed with us for a week, after one of his tours got cancelled, we improvised together for hours each day. We recorded our experiments, and we puzzled over the hovering nocturnal mood of our explorations. Of course we were channeling the situation of our lives and of the world, perhaps a dissonance between the realms of comfort and distress, distance from family or a larger distance from our hopes for the human herd. As artists, we take a shamanic path, and we trend toward the outlying regions of cognition. Our musical mood during these sessions reminded me of the books by Peter Kingsley, about pre-Socratic mystics Parmenides and Empedocles, who’s meditative approach of “incubation” planted a more earthy and subterranean core to ancient European philosophy. Consider this musical excursion as subterranean, seeking balance inside of dark silence. Markus and I share a deep friendship based on searching, questioning, practice, and a sort of alchemical process of creating things that never existed before, from within our life journeys.

released November 7, 2025

Markus Reuter: Touch Guitar and looping systems
Robert Rich: Sequential PX, Haken Continuum,
piano, flutes, lap steel guitar, sound design

Recorded in July and August 2025 at Soundscape, Carmel
Mixed and Mastered by Robert Rich August 2025

Paintings by Max Novak Zemplinski
Layout by studioflokati.de

©2025 by Robert Rich and Markus Reuter
Published by Amoeba Music, BMI and All Matter In The Universe, SESAC

Tracklist
01. Erased In Shadow 04:24
02. Forms Still Linger 06:17
03. Spirits Summoned 04:41
04. Known Without Seeing 05:51
05. Phosphenes Remain 06:53
06. Eidetic Sustain 05:33
07. Clay Between Fingers 05:27
08. Invisible Lightning 07:16
09. Forgotten Creatures 04:39
10. At Odds with Survival 04:38
11. To Find What’s Missing 04:03
12. Orpheus Glances Back 03:46