Dreamtime Return

by Steve Roach

Overview

As the concept of "fourth world" music was inaugurated by Jon Hassell and indigenous music was embraced by the record industry, Steve Roach was visiting Australia, gathering the sonic food he needed to cook up this incomparable recording. With this double-disc set containing over two hours of music, Roach reached a plateau both in his musical evolution and within the genre that has yet to be eclipsed. Reveling in a near-seamless blend of organic and electronic sound worlds, Roach constructs a number of mini-epics that sonically reflect the Aborigine mystique, filtered through a collage of didgeridoos, incongruous samples from the deep outback, and other manners of unidentifiable electronic textures. Cloaked in the infinite tempest of ancient ritual, tracks such as "A Circular Ceremony" and "The Other Side" suggest not just primordial riddles or sacred ceremonial rites, but rather they touch on emotions that resonate across all cultural and ethnographic boundaries. Atmospheres suggest unknown flora and fauna developing their own febrile environments. Grooves percolate from hand-struck drums that are in turn programmed into multi-sequenced events, while samples of mysterious origin sparkle and flare out of vast, twilight regions. Undoubtedly Roach's first true masterpiece. ~ Rovi Staff

Product Details

Release Date:	09/06/2024
Label:	Projekt Records
UPC:	0617026035017
Rank:	157077

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Steve Roach   Primary Artist,Sampling,Computers,Taos Drum,Synthesizer,Digital Drums,Multi Instruments,Analogue Synthesizer,Stick
Robert Rich   Guest Artist,Drums,Dumbek
Chuck Oken, Jr.   Guest Artist,Rainstick
David Hudson   Guest Artist,Didjeridu
Kevin Braheny   Guest Artist,EWI,Woodwind,Synthesizer

Technical Credits

Steve Roach   Sequencers,Liner Notes,Photography,Remastering,Digital Mixing,Digital Synthesizer,Mixing,Composer,Engineer,Producer
Kevin Braheny   Composer
Loren Nerell   Engineer
Robert Rich   Composer
Sam Rosenthal   Graphic Design
Rich   Composer
Dave Stahl   Liner Notes,Photography
Ethan Edgecombe   Executive Producer
Georgianne Cowan   Cover Photo,Photography
Daniel Hersch   Mastering
Kevin Monahan   Technical Support