Steve Roach - On This Planet

Title: On This Planet Artist: Steve Roach Release Date: 9/16/1997 Label: Fathom Duration: 72:59 UPCs: 025041108225, 025041108249 Genre: New Age Style: Experimental Electronic Moods: Atmospheric, Circular, Calm/Peaceful, Clinical, Ethereal, Hypnotic, Nocturnal, Somber, Soothing, Trippy, Ambitious, Restrained, Eerie Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 0 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Heart of the Tempest
2. Journey of One
3. The Nexus Place
4. Trilobite
5. Void Memory 4
6. Cloud Watching with the Toolmaker
7. The Ecstasy of Travel
8. Remember It Now
9. A Darker Star
10. On This Planet

Year Type Label Catalog # 1997 CD Fathom 11082

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The cover of On This Planet offers two of the many faces of Earth. One is a craggy, misty place of eerie cold, the other a wind-worn ancient desertscape. Both extremes are intense and lonely, yet extremely inviting in their inhospitableness. It is like being drawn toward the knife. Challenging "dark ambient" composer Steve Roach asks you to experience his compositions loud. This is no unobtrusive sonic background, but a sound atlas to the nether regions. His creations are wrought with didgeridoo, clay pots and other varied percussion, synthesizers, conversation, and electronic respirations. This is a condensation of material developed for and through his 1997 tour. On the basis of the evidence presented here, listeners who missed the tour should rue the day they passed up any opportunities to witness it. ~ Tom Schulte, All Music Guide

Name Credits Bob Olhsson Mastering Jeremy Hulette Design, Art Direction Linda Kohanov Vocals Michael Ferreaux Photography Omar Faruk Tekbilek Darbouka, Bandir, Baglama Patrick O'Hearn Bass, Guitar (Bass) Roger King Bass, Digital Assembly Stephen Hill Design, Art Direction Steve Roach Synthesizer, Sequencing, Producer, Percussion, Vocals, Didjeridu, Sampling, Digital Assembly, Analogue Synthesizer, Digital Synthesizer, Liner Notes, Sample Arrangements