Dreamtime Return (CD)

Inventive and productive, Steve Roach has been performing and recording his desert-inspired electronic music since the early 1980s. He blossomed as a composer and a world-music force with 1988's DREAMTIME RETURN, a visionary work meant to convey, expressionistically, the Australian aborigine experience, using both sampled indigenous instruments and imaginative synthesizer-generated sounds. He has released over 20 albums as a solo artist and collaborator, each of which bears his trademark fusion of exotic acoustic instruments, tribal percussion, and mesmerizing electronica. He has also produced records for likeminded artists, such as West African songwriter Takadja and South American traditionalist Jorge Reyes.

• Category:  Music  »  New Age  »  General/New Age
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• Release Date: January 23, 1992
• Label: Fortuna
• UPC: 013711805529
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106622093
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #110389 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #1308 in New Age (See Top 100 New Age Bestsellers)
• #1115 in General/New Age (See Top 100 General/New Age Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Steve Roach (synthesizer, Taos drums, sticks, sequencer, samplers); Kevin Braheny (Steiner electronic woodwind instrument); David Hudson (digeridoo); Robert Rich (gourd drums, dumbek); Chuck Oken, Jr. (rainstick).

Includes liner notes by Steve Roach and David Stahl.

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 and gathering together 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 didjeridus, incongruous samples from the deep outback, and all 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 touch on emotions that resonate across all cultural and ethnographic boundaries. Atmospheres suggest uncategorizable 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.

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