Welcome to the Official Site for the Music of Richard Bone

Broadcasters:

Quirkworks is updating its mailing list for future releases. Radio stations, spas, meditation centers, etc. that would like to be added to our promotional mailing list, please send your contact info to: quirkwork@aol.com. I look forward to hearing from you and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
- rb

HERMETIC EMBERS

"Ethereal, beatless ambiance, conjured in the pre-dawn hours when the day was taking form, when the mind...creating that day...drifted between the real and the surreal.
Quiet, gentle music for the rising of the new born Star or the setting of the waning Moon. "Hermetic Embers" is simply the sound of Peace."

Here's the link to order, cover art and the track list:

SOLITUDE & SOLACE
- release on September 1st.
Richard has a new project! The new songs will fill your heart with love and diversity! This one is called "SOLITUDE & SOLACE" and is really a masterpiece. The digital release is being released first.

Here's the link to order, cover art and the track list:

ELECTROPICA - Now on cassette!
"Rediscover your love of Bossa Nova!"

Tiger Blood Tapes proudly presents for the first time ever on cassette, Richard Bone's 1998 Ambient Electro Jazz album "Electropica!"

click here

Features an unreleased outtake "Cosa Nova".
"Electropica" is part one in a trilogy of Richard Bone's Ambient Electro Bossa Nova albums. The other two are "Coxa" & "Ascensionism" due later this year.
Electropica, Coxa & Ascensionism

Stay tuned for vinyl coming soon!
released March 16, 2022

Take a look at one of this guys video clips. It is by a young man named Eden G. covering Vox 2.5 from EM:T 1197. It is most interesting!... Click Here

VALENGRAPH (sold out)

Richard Bone has a beautiful new album out now! The work is still very much ambient, though it seems the music has something more. Ten peaceful tracks to take you away...

'Pushing the boundaries of ambient music in new directions, Valengraph combines sweeping electronic foundation and mixes them with an assortment of light orchestral instruments, resulting in new meditative vistas and aural stories at once familiar & unknown. As always, headphones are strongly encouraged.'

For a better view of the album, see the track listing or to order, click the cover.

REFRACTION
(10 new ambient tracks for these trying times.)
More electronic and somewhat darker in places than previous releases, “Refraction” features the subtle use of sequences to create movement within many of the tracks. Although most tracks are written around beautiful melodies, some more abstract tracks like “The Dome” are more drone based.
However, all the tracks were created to be the gentle soundtrack for meditation, relaxation and journeys of the mind. I hope you will enjoy them.

Here's the tracks and ordering links.

EMPYREAN CASTLES (sold out)

"For over a year I've been dilligently working on new music. "Empyrean Castles" is in the mastering stage and will be released on November 11. It features 50 minutes of structured, psychedelic ambience. Recorded and mixed entirely on headphones and is meant to be heard that way. I'll post some of the artwork just as soon as I finish it. I hope those who have supported my music through the years will enjoy "Empyrean Castles" as well. There will be a very limited CD run and on some outlets the digital version will have bonus tracks."
Here it is...

ALIEN BONE 7"
. The long awaited 7" release is ready! Samples and cover artwork. Here's a review...
Get it here.....

A GARDEN OF INVITED FLOWERS

A collection of 8 ambient soundscapes with minimal, if any, percussion. All tracks were written based on intricate yet gentle patterns and were designed to transport the listener to new ‘landscapes of the mind’. Some have a darker tone while others slowly swing open the door to ethereal, immersive vistas.
Anyone familiar with Richard Bone most ambient works will find much to love within “A Garden of Invited Flowers”.

Order the download here.

NIBIRU: Drones from the 12th Planet
NOW AVAILABLE!

Wonderful news for fans of Richard’s dark ambient music...
Seven dark ambient works for contemplation on the next step in human evolution, which is almost upon us.

Get yours now!

AGE OF FALCONRY

Richard's amazing 2017 recording!
"... Age of Falconry has a haunting beauty at work on many of its tracks, juxtaposed with a cheery warmth, both elements sitting comfortably next to each other despite their polar opposite natures. It takes a special artist to make this work, but then, this is Mr. Bone we're speaking of, so why am I not surprised?" ...
Get all the details Here.

"Alien Comic at Club 57"

An 80's film created by Merrill Aldighieri of a Richard Bone and Tom Murrin performance, along with three of her other films, will be added to the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection. Richard's piece is entitiled "Alien Comic at Club 57".

AERA (update - SOLD OUT!)

AERA, a collection of 25 rare and obscure tracks released on a gorgeous engraved rosewood USB drive. This sweet package consists of 25 tracks in a VERY limited and numbered edition of 25 only, packaged in a custom metal tin.

The AERA USB contains 2 hours of music in a variety of styles.
(SOLD OUT) Get the details here.

INVOLUTION vol.1

As we grow older, if we are fortunate, we become aware of unseen hands guiding us along our lives. There is simply no other way to explain the wondrous synchronicities of my life. With "Involution" I completely allowed my guides to take primary control. The first thoughts that came to me regarding instruments & melodies are what you hear. I know many of you will understand what I mean, while others will think I am a nut case. You're probably both right! rb

Track listing, ordering links, samples and more can be found here.
In Integral Theory, the process by which the Divine manifests the cosmos is called involution.

OBTUSE TANTRUMS - 7" vinyl EP

"The Obtuse Tantrums EP features Richard Bone’s return to his new wave/synthpop roots, where he began his career signed to Survival Records UK in the 1980s. Four newly recorded vocal songs, “17 Delilahs”. “Song For A Tantric Caravan”, “Krishna Town” and “Blind Pope” are released on Quirkworks and the Attractive Co-Ordinates label. Four upbeat slices of retro synthhpop from an artist who was there the first time."
Vinyl EP or digital, both are available now.... Find out more on this page.

BRAVE SKETCHES

Orlandomaniac Music is proud to present a new retrospective album of early synth-pop demo works by Richard Bone, celebrating the 10th Anniversary of 'Untold Tales'. This unique selection of 24 fantastic songs written between the years 1978-84, which were never meant to reach the ears of anyone but the composer himself, can now be enjoyed by everyone. The songs were saved and transferred from many long forgotten, fragile reel tapes recently found in Richard's attic. This double vinyl release is pressed in only 300 copies on beautiful red vinyl.
Click here for much more information including an amazing youtube teaser and ordering information!

VAULTED VISIONS

German label Vinyl-on-Demand has released in September 2014, a beautiful boxed-set of long out-of-print material Richard created from 1979 - 1985. The work is entitled "VAULTED VISIONS - filmworks, synthpop, demos & experiments", and consists of 3 LPs, a bonus 7-track 7", a full lyrics sheet plus a bonus t-shirt for VOD subscribers. This is an amazing collection of Richard's early works! Much more info - tracklist, artwork and links for ordering & samples - can be found here.

VERTICAL LIFE

VERTICAL LIFE, released March 2014. This gorgeous full-length CD is filled with 10 mind expanding voyages. Here’s more…

'Featuring ten new meticulously crafted works of 'Surreality', Vertical Life is melodic ambience for contemplation and flying carpets. Without becoming mired in the heavy handed approach so prevalent in the ambient genre, Vertical Life is inspired by the early (the 1960's) and current exploration into the expansion of human consciousness. We stand at the doorway of a new era of infinite possibility, majik and alchemy. Vertical Life is the soundtrack to one of these exploratory journeys. It is best enjoyed under a galaxy of planets and stars, be they real or imagined. And maybe, just maybe, on a flying carpet of your own design!'

More information including track listing, ordering links and artwork can be seen on this page.

CRANIUM FIZZ - Richard's first vinyl EP in 30 years

'Cranium Fizz is a 12" vinyl EP that released September 5, 2013. It contains four tracks best descirbed as 'chillout music for mind and feet'. The title track is the most danceable with elements of electronica and jazz sprinkled throughout. Highly rhythmic it is, but it never descends into a tacky homage to disco. Far from it. Bleeps and cranium fizzes are sprinkled atop an electric piano. The piano in turn rocks firmly over solid bass and percussion. The other 3 tracks slow the pace down a bit as they draw the mind into the chillout grooves. The production is clever and, as with all Richard Bone releases, begs to be heard on headphones!' More info here.