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Release Date: 16-08-1997
Label: Hearts of Space
Catalog Number: HS11034-2
Barcode: 25041103428
Musical Style: Space Music
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Different Deserts | 6 | Suspended Memories Forgotten Gods |
| 2 | Snake Song | 7 | Ritual Noise |
| 3 | Night Devotion | 8 | Distant Look |
| 4 | Saguaro | 9 | Shaman's Dream |
| 5 | Mutual Tribes | ||
Review:
'Simmering beneath this collection of half-formed dreams, existential shadows, mercurial hallucinations and tender silences is an understanding between three people that can't be put into words. --Linda Kohanov
Description:
A critically acclaimed collaboration between three major stars of the international spacemusic scene.
Under the group name Suspended Memories, U.S. spacemusic giant Steve Roach joins Mexican shantanic powerhouse Jorge Reyes and Spanish electronic guitarist Suso Saiz for a truly mind-bending set!
The trio met at a festival in the Canary lslands in 1991 and discovered a shared sound language and a musical affinity both modern and archaic. Deep, absorbing and powerful - a journey to the frontier of electroacoustic music. Synthesizers, didgeridoo, guitar, flutes, ocarina, whistles, voices, ancient and futuristic percussion.
Biography:
STEVE ROACH
Already respected for his collaborations with musicians like Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Kevin Braheny and Michael Shreive, Steve Roach was primed to join forces with an international ensemble the caliber of Suspended Memories. He remains best known, however, for his work as an innovative solo artist with over a dozen such albums to his credit, including Now, Traveller, Empetus, Structures from Silence, Quiet Music (3 vols.), his classic double CDs Dreamtime Return and World's Edge and his fall 1993 release Origins. In recent years, Roach's influence abroad has extended beyond his own concerts and recordings. Artists from Canada, Australia, Germany, France and Belgium have enlisted his services as a producer and guest artist, often traveling to Roach's Tucson-based recording studio The Time Room.
JORGE REYES
Though Jorge Reyes has studied classical flute, played in rock bands and explored the music of other cultures during travels through India and the Middle East, he is most profoundly influenced by his Mexican heritage. Ranging across his homeland, he continues to collect Pre-Columbian instruments, make field recordings of native Indian performers and immerse himself in the rituals from which the music emerged centuries ago. Reyes' own style is a neo-shamanic combination of the latest electronic innovations and the most ancient roots of ecstatic Mexican music making. Previous recordings include Bajo el Sol Jaguar, Comala, Nierika and Cronicade Castas (with Suso Saiz). El Costumbre, his most recent project as a leader, was released on the Australian-based Extreme label.
SUSO SAIZ
In Spain, Suso Saiz is a sought-after producer and composer with projects spanning jazz, pop, world and avant-garde music. After studying guitar at the Madrid Conservatory of Music, he established himself as an iconoclast in the European new music scene by forming numerous experimental ensembles. His solo work has long explored multicultural trance rhythms and the psychology of ambience. Along the way, he developed a sophisticated, other-worldly approach to the electric guitar. Using highly personal techniques of sonic processing, Saiz's guitar work emphasizes texture, emotional potency and liquid manipulations of tone color. His most recent recordings include Simbolos, Mirrors of Pollution, Hypnotics and Musica Esporadica (with Glen Velez).
