Length 69:35 Artist Steve Roach Producer Steve Roach | The Magnificent Void
(1996) Halcyon Days
(1996) Release date 1996 Label Fathom | |
Released February 13, 1996 (U.S.)
February 22, 1996 (world) Recorded at The Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona Genres Ambient music, Space music, Dark ambient Similar Steve Roach albums, Ambient music albums | ||
The Magnificent Void (1996) is an album by the U.S. ambient musician Steve Roach.
Contents
Overview
The backcover of The Magnificent Void quotes from transpersonal psychologist Stanislav Grof's 1992 book The Holotropic Mind: "One of the most enigmatic of all transpersonal phenomena is the experience of the Void [...] This absolute emptiness is simultaneously pregnant with all of existence since it contains everything in a potential form."
The music on this album is dark, expansive, pure electronic textures, ending in an intense chord progression titled "Altus" (a Latin word meaning both "high" and "deep"). Genre-wise, the album says "File under Ambient, Electronic" and is tagged as "Electronic Space" by its record label, but is also classified as dark ambient by reviewers. The Steve Roach website files it in its custom category "Atmospheric Space", but adds that "it has more in common with 20th century avant-garde than other genres."
The Magnificent Void is one of many productions that Steve Roach has no memory of creating, because so many elements of each track were worked on over a period of years.
Track listing
- "Between the Gray and the Purple" – 7:42
- "Void Memory One" – 2:53
- "Infinite Shore" – 7:47
- "Cloud of Unknowing" – 10:38
- "Void Memory Two" – 3:40
- "Void Memory Three" – 3:41
- "The Magnificent Void" – 13:13
- "Altus" – 20:01
All compositions by Steve Roach.
Personnel
Songs
1Between the Gray and the Purple7:41
2Void Memory One2:53
3Infinite Shore7:47