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Soma (Steve Roach and Robert Rich album)

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Released
  
1992

Soma (1992)
  
The Lost Pieces (1993)

Artists
  
Steve Roach, Robert Rich

Label
  
Hearts of Space Records

Length
  
57:11

Soma (1992)
  
Propagation (1994)

Release date
  
1992

Producers
  
Robert Rich, Steve Roach

Soma (Steve Roach & Robert Rich album) httpsf4bcbitscomimga394741647010jpg

Recorded
  
at The Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona and Soundscape Studio in Mountain View, California

Genres
  
Ambient music, Tribal house

Similar
  
Steve Roach albums, Ambient music albums

Steve roach robert rich soma


Soma (1992, sometimes spelled SoMa) was the second collaborative album by the U.S. ambient musicians Steve Roach and Robert Rich, following their 1990 album Strata.

Contents

Love magick by robert rich and steve roach from the album soma


Overview

The liner notes explain that the word soma can be found in the ancient Vedic texts describing a drink made from plants to help commune with the gods (a botanical hallucinogen), and that the same word meant "body" in Ancient Greek.

The music on the album is "tribal ambient" (a mix of tribal house and ambient music) with dark hallucinatory overtones. The album ends with a gentle, serene piece for electric guitar titled "Touch".

Track listing

  1. "Love Magick" – 7:40
  2. "Nightshade" – 9:07
  3. "Going Inland" – 4:05
  4. "Silk Ridge" – 6:05
  5. "Blood Music" – 8:10
  6. "Soma" – 12:07
  7. "Seduction of the Minotaur" – 5:21
  8. "Touch" – 4:36

All compositions by Steve Roach and Robert Rich.

Personnel

Musical
  • Steve Roach – synthesizers, samplers, drum programming, didgeridu, voice, clay water pots, rainstick, rocks, various percussions, Lakota Indian flute, ocarinas, "glurp"
  • Robert Rich – synthesizers, samplers, bamboo and clay flutes, steel guitar, drum programming, Udu clay drums, dumbek, ceramic talking drum, Waterphone, kalimba, rainstick, various percussions, "glurp"
    • with
  • Linda Kohanov (Roach's wife) – frame drum "cries, swirls and scratches" (on tracks 6 and 7)
    • Technical
  • Production, recording, mixing: Steve Roach, Robert Rich
  • Mastering: Stephen Hill, Robert Rich
    • Graphical
  • Design, image editing, montage: Stephen Hill
  • Cover: photochemical etching by Wernher Krutein (of Photovault, San Francisco)
  • Artist photo: Chuck Koesters

    • Songs

    1Love Magick7:38
    2Nightshade9:06
    3Going Inland4:02

    References

    Soma (Steve Roach & Robert Rich album) Wikipedia
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