Steve Roach - World's Edge

Steve Roach's World's Edge is a wonderfully executed blending of all those things that worked so well in Structures from Silence and Dreamtime Return. Disc one incorporates a healthy dose of the Aboriginal percussives into Roach's trademark swelling drone-breathing synths. A perfect balance of tension-release, anticiptation-relaxation, and trancezone/world-stopping is woven into a fine tapestry of ethereal soundworlds. Ten tracks ranging from three to ten-and-a-half minutes offer some of Roach's best works for the blank-stare, alpha-waved, drool-inducing moments. Disc two offers essentially another hour of one nonstop Roach-scape, transporting you even further through massive gong calls, synth-voiced wordless chants, Tibetan ruins among Cydonian foothills, crumbling on the dust storm-eroded face of Mars, now welcome your naked soul. You can hear Roach's The Magnificent Void here, too. This is Roach at his best. Highly recommend for ambient-heads and electronic tune devotees; make sure this is in your collection. ~ John W. Patterson, All Music Guide

Name Credits Chris Mooney Lighting, Photography Eckart Rahn Design, Art Direction Ethan Edgecombe Producer, Executive Producer Florence Riggs Harmony, Vocals, Vocal Harmony Guy Thouin Percussion, Tabla Helmut Zimmermann Cover Art Kevin Monahan Technical Support Robert Langlois Engineer Robert Rich Guitar (Steel) Robin Horn Gong, Cymbals, Chinese Gong, ? Steve Roach Engineer, Liner Notes, Tibetan Bells, Didjeridu, Sample Percussion, Sequencing, ?, Drums, Sampling, Frame Drum, Dumbek, Lakota Flute, Percussion, Synthesizer, Flute, Mixing, Producer, Bells