Robert Rich & Markus Reuter
Incubation

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.

01 Erased In Shadow 4:25
02 Forms Still Linger 6:18
03 Spirits Summoned 4:42
04 Known Without Seeing 5:52
05 Phosphenes Remain 6:54
06 Eidetic Sustain 5:33
07 Clay Between Fingers 5:28
08 Invisible Lightning 7:16
09 Forgotten Creatures 4:40
10 At Odds with Survival 4:38
11 To Find What’s Missing 4:03
12 Orpheus Glances Back 3:47

Total Time: 63:37

©2025 by Robert Rich, BMI (IPI 00205516302)
and Markus Reuter, SESAC (IPI 00290656643)
Published by Amoeba Music, BMI (IPI: 00235480475)
and All Matter In The Universe, SESAC  (IPI: 1035163003)

Recorded in July and August 2025 at Soundscape, Carmel
Markus Reuter: Touch Guitar and looping systems
Robert Rich: Sequential PX, Haken Continuum,
piano, flutes, lap steel guitar, sound design
Mixed and Mastered by Robert Rich August 2025