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Released
  
1987

Western Spaces (1987)
  
Galaxies (1988)

Release date
  
1987

Genre
  
Ambient music

Length
  
68:51

Artist
  
Kevin Braheny Fortune

Label
  
Fortuna Records

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Recorded
  
The Timeroom and Kevin Braheny's studio, Los Angeles

Producer
  
Steve Roach, Chuck Oken, Jr.

Western Spaces (1987)
  
The Leaving Time (1988)

Ambient music albums
  
Desert Solitaire, Slow Heat, World's Edge, Australia: Sound of the Earth, On This Planet

Western spaces


Western Spaces (1987) is a collaborative album by the American ambient musicians Steve Roach and Kevin Braheny. This album is the first of Steve Roach’s many musical tributes to the Southwestern Desert.

Contents

On several tracks Kevin Braheny uses his trademark sound created by playing a cello preset on his Steiner EWI (Electronic Woodwind Instrument). This album was originally released on the Innovative Communications label by Chameleon Records as a Steve Roach/Kevin Braheny/Richard Burmer album and was released later the same year on the Fortuna label as a Steve Roach/Kevin Braheny album, with Burmer's solo contributions (“A Story from the Rain” and “Across the View”) replaced by two pieces from Roach.

The liner notes contain a poem by Roach's wife Linda Kohanov from which many of the song titles and perhaps the album title were derived.

Innovative Communications (Chameleon Records)

  1. ”The Breathing Stone” (Roach) (6:46)
  2. ”Desert Walkabout” (Braheny) (7:03)
  3. ”A Story from the Rain” (Burmer) (7:08)
  4. ”Desert Prayer” (Roach, Braheny) (12:33)
  5. ”Across the View” (Burmer) (4:40)
  6. ”In the Heat of Venus” (Roach, Brennan) (22:42)
  7. ”Western Spaces” (Roach, Braheny, Burmer) (6:07)

Fortuna

  1. "The Breathing Stone" (Roach) (6:46)
  2. "Desert Walkabout" (Braheny) (7:03)
  3. "New Moon at Forbidden Mesa" (Roach, Brennan) (5:40)
  4. "Desert Prayer" (Roach, Braheny) (12:33)
  5. "In the Heat of Venus" (Roach, Brennan) (22:33)
  6. "The Slow Turning" (Roach) (7:40)
  7. "Western Spaces" (Roach, Braheny, Burmer) (6:07)

Personnel

  • Steve Roach (Oberheim System with digital drums and Xpander, EMU I, Arp, Casio, Emulator II, Ensoniq ESQ-I)
  • Kevin Braheny (Steiner EWI, The Mighty Serge Modular, Oberheim, Ensoniq ESQ-1 piano, panpipes, kalimba, bells)
  • Thom Brennan (Oberheim Matrix 12 on “New Moon at Forbidden Mesa” and “In the Heat of Venus”)
  • Richard Burmer (Emulator II on “Western Spaces”)

    • Songs

    1The Breathing StoneSteve Roach6:52
    2Desert Walkabout7:07
    3New Moon at Forbidden MesaSteve Roach - Thom Brennan5:45

    References

    Western Spaces Wikipedia
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