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Richard Bone: Tales from the Incantina
by John W. Patterson
If you enjoyed Bone’s Etherdome CD then prepare to again enjoy Bone’s creation of a liltingly lite massage of melodic ambience very much like Etherdome and it is filled with deep relaxations and swaying movements like a grand porch swing or a great vine each caught in slow-mo. “A Column of Glyphs" is my current fav, followed very closely by “Nine gods Nine," (Hear splendid glories of the keys! You will hear a Vangelis leaning as well), Bone composes all ...
read moreRichard Bone: The Spectral Ships
by John W. Patterson
This is a class act of ultra-noir ambience yet divided into 9 unique compositions. One might think Eno listening to this but not quite, a sampled voice speaks causing Bill Nelson to come to mind yet again – not really. Next piece and I envision sonar blips, scuba divers, and an old submarine flick. Then schizo voices go abuzzing with assorted metallic titterings augmenting the spectrum. This is complex, somber, dark but curiously relaxing.The way Bone weaves so ...
read moreRichard Bone: Etherdome
by John W. Patterson
With the same strong composing and performance skills found his earlier release, The Spectral Ships , Bone offers yet another winner. Etherdome however takes the listener into calmer worlds, soothing and restful niches. Elegantly simple, vignettes echo the likes of Brian Eno, Time Story, Steve Halpern, Wally Badarou, and Kit Watkins. Supreme peacefulness oozes forth. Synth textures are breezes wafting an essence of drowsiness, an ambience of opiate dreaming. Voice samples dangle at an “edge-of-wakefulness” as Lethean forgetfulness encroaches outer ...
read moreRichard Bone: Coxa
by Douglas Payne
The multitalented and multi-textual keyboardist Richard Bone continues his ambient reflections on mid-1960s jazz with Coxa, his tenth disc as a leader and a sequel of sorts to 1998's bossa-oriented Electropica. Coxa, an anatomical term meaning hip bone (clever, huh?), is again inspired by producer Creed Taylor's galvanizing Verve productions of the mid-1960s. Here, though, Bone spices his jazz impressions with the work of vibesmen Cal Tjader and Dave Pike as well as Rudy Van Gelder, who single-handedly ...
read moreRichard Bone: Electropica
by Douglas Payne
Electropica is Rhode Islander Richard Bone's avant-ambient tribute to the significant influence of Bossa Nova. Bone is a one-man keyboard arsenal that launches his lush cocktails from the inspiration of Creed Taylor's Verve and CTI recordings of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Luis Bonfa, Joao Gilberto and Walter Wanderley. While the result doesn't possess the rich complexities of samba or much of the improvisation of jazz (with the possible exception of “Waveland"), Bone constructs bright and witty percussion motifs that elevate the ...
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