DESERT SOLITAIRE
Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny & Michael Stearns
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Release Date: 26-10-1998
Label: Celestial Harmonies
Catalog Number: 17070-2
Barcode: 13711707021
Musical Style: Therapeutic
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flatlands [04:49] | 7 | Shiprock [04:00] |
| 2 | Labyrinth [06:56] | 8 | Highnoon [10:30] |
| 3 | Specter [09:34] | 9 | Empty Time [05:51] |
| 4 | Canyon's Embrace [03:35] | 10 | From the Heart of Darkness [03:50] |
| 5 | Cloud of Promise [06:38] | 11 | Desert Solitaire [06:06] |
| 6 | Knowledge & Dust [03:23] | ||
Description:
Over the past ten years, Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny and Michael Stearns have established themselves as conceptual innovators and major solo recording artists. These three synthesists collaborated for the first time on an album entitled Desert Solitaire. The Southwest desert is inviting and intoxicatingly beautiful,' said Roach, 'but it is also dangerous and frightening. We wanted to capture the desert's timeless beauty and we also wanted to create in sound the more visceral emotional experience of actually being there. The music contains some lovely desert imagery, but it also contains some of the desert's ominous, potentially lethal undertones. We were inspired by our personal experiences in the desert, by Edward Abbey's book, Desert Solitaire and by Abbey's introduction to the Desert Images book, with photographs by David Muench. For us, this album is as much a tribute to Edward Abbey as it is to the desert itself.' Roach, Braheny and Stearns each play two solo compositions on Desert Solitaire. Roach and Stearns team up on three pieces, with Roach and Braheny working together on the title track.'
Biography:
Steve Roach is recognized worldwide as one of the leading innovators in contemporary electronic music. His range of musical expression runs the gamut from the introspective soundscapes of Structures from Silence and Quiet Music (Complete Edition) to the explosive sequencer music of Empetus. Roach masterfully combined these two aspects of his style on the double album Dreamtime Return , considered by many critics to be a landmark in the new music genre.
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