Artifacts (album)
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Artifacts is a tribal ambient
album by the American artist Steve Roach. This album is a follow up to 1993’s Origins.
There is a poem by Roach's wife Linda Kohanov
in the liner notes which is a sequel to her poem in Origins. Like Origins, many of the track titles were derived from this poem.
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
album by the American artist Steve Roach. This album is a follow up to 1993’s Origins.
There is a poem by Roach's wife Linda Kohanov
Linda Kohanov
Linda Kohanov is an author, speaker, riding instructor, and horse trainer. Kohanov is best known in the field called "equine facilitated psychotherapy" , and as the author of two books, The Tao of Equus: A Woman's Journey of Healing and Transformation through the Way of the Horse and Riding...
in the liner notes which is a sequel to her poem in Origins. Like Origins, many of the track titles were derived from this poem.
Track listing
All songs written by Steve Roach- ”Groundswell” – 8:15
- ”Thunder Brother” – 9:29
- ”The Origin of Artifacts” – 25:46
- ”Your Own Eyes” – 8:02
- ”Ancestral Horizon” – 8:27
- ”Temple of the Frog” – 8:50
- ”Begin Where I End” – 8:01
Personnel
- Steve Roach (synthesizerSynthesizerA synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
s, samplersSampler (musical instrument)A sampler is an electronic musical instrument similar in some respects to a synthesizer but, instead of generating sounds, it uses recordings of sounds that are loaded or recorded into it by the user and then played back by means of a keyboard, sequencer or other triggering device to perform or...
, percussion, didgeridooDidgeridooThe didgeridoo is a wind instrument developed by Indigenous Australians of northern Australia around 1,500 years ago and still in widespread usage today both in Australia and around the world. It is sometimes described as a natural wooden trumpet or "drone pipe"...
s, Northern SonoranSonoran DesertThe Sonoran Desert is a North American desert which straddles part of the United States-Mexico border and covers large parts of the U.S. states of Arizona and California and the northwest Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur. It is one of the largest and hottest...
dreampipe, frame drums, dumbek, voice, rainstick, clay water pots, ocarina, clay flutes, IndonesiaIndonesiaIndonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
n gongGongA gong is an East and South East Asian musical percussion instrument that takes the form of a flat metal disc which is hit with a mallet....
, Native AmericanIndigenous peoples of the AmericasThe indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
grinding stone, misc.) - Loren NerellLoren NerellLoren Nerell is a composer and performer of ambient American music and Balinese gamelan.As a composer, Loren has written music for film, theater, dance, and interactive multi-media...
(Javanese gender on “Temple of the Frog”) - Suso Saiz (guitar sample food on “The Origins of Artifacts”)