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Artifacts (album)

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Released
  
1994

Length
  
77:12

Genre
  
Ambient

Label
  
Fortuna Records

Recorded
  
1994 at The Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona

Producer
  
Steve Roach and Eckart Rahn

Artifacts (1994) is a tribal ambient album by the American artist Steve Roach. This album is a follow up to 1993’s Origins.

Contents

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.

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Roach

  1. ”Groundswell” – 8:15
  2. ”Thunder Brother” – 9:29
  3. ”The Origin of Artifacts” – 25:46
  4. ”Your Own Eyes” – 8:02
  5. ”Ancestral Horizon” – 8:27
  6. ”Temple of the Frog” – 8:50
  7. ”Begin Where I End” – 8:01

Personnel

  • Steve Roach (synthesizers, samplers, percussion, didgeridoos, Northern Sonoran dreampipe, frame drums, dumbek, voice, rainstick, clay water pots, ocarina, clay flutes, Indonesian gong, Native American grinding stone, misc.)
  • Loren Nerell (Javanese gender on “Temple of the Frog”)
  • Suso Saiz (guitar sample food on “The Origins of Artifacts”)

    • References

    Artifacts (album) Wikipedia
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