SOMNIUM

How is it possible to rate this album, where you are supposed to sleep when listening it. I admit that I failed when trying to grasp this album, but maybe there isn't anything to "understand", maybe it's just big, void bubble of nothing.

I admit that I haven't listened it all, but from what I heard, I realized that this is just mistake. This albums isn't supposed to be appreciated, but rather consumed. Do you want to try these meditative, mind altering states ? Go for it. Do you want to try drugs ? I'm not interested, but feel free to your companion on your trip.

1(-), it's not interesting (it's not supposed to be), it's not Rock (again the same), it's just big soundscape of slow sounds. Too slow to be understood by humans.

Now throw me to sharks.

Robert Rich is best known for his "sleep concerts". During the 80's, in the San Francisco Area, his ambient music was playing, and the audience has to sleep. Robert Rich woke them up with piano notes. So, Robert Rich make ambient music to sleep or to meditate. So, often, the ambient music is long, right ? Somnium is SEVEN HOURS LONG !!!! Seriously, it's huge. It's a music to sleep, and night is long so the music have to be long, but seven hours, it's really long. It is boring ? If you listen to it like a classic rock album, of course it is. But if you try to sleep or to meditate, it's just the perfect album. There's very uplifting moment. For this huge work, Rich deserves 4 stars.