Soma (album)
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| Studio album by Steve Roach and Robert Rich | ||
| Released | 1992 | |
| Recorded | at The Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona and Soundscape Studio in Mountain View, California | |
| Genre | Ambient | |
| Length | 57:11 | |
| Label | Hearts of Space Records | |
| Producer(s) | Robert Rich and Steve Roach | |
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| Steve Roach chronology | ||
| Now / Traveler (1992) |
Soma (1992) |
The Lost Pieces (1993) |
| Robert Rich chronology | ||
| Geometry (1991) |
Soma (1992) |
Propagation (1994) |
Soma (1992) is the second collaborative album by the American ambient musicians Steve Roach and Robert Rich. The word soma can be found in the ancient Vedic texts describing a botanical hallucinogen. The same word means “body" in ancient Greek.
The music on the album is tribal ambient with dark hallucinatory overtones. The album ends with a gentle, serene piece for electric guitar titled “touch”.
[edit] Track listing
- ”Love Magick” - 7:40
- ”Nightshade” - 9:07
- ”Going Inland” - 4:05
- ”Silk Ridge” - 6:05
- ”Blood Music” - 8:10
- ”Soma” - 12:07
- ”Seduction of the Minotauor” - 5:21
- ”Touch” - 4:36
[edit] Personnel
- Steve Roach (Synthesizers, samplers, drum programing, didjeridu, voice, clay water pots, rainstick, rocks, percussion, Lakota flutes, ocarinas, glurp)
- Robert Rich (synthesizers, samplers, bamboo and clay flutes, steel guitar, drum programing, Udu clay drums, dumbek, ceramic talking drum, Waterphone, kalimba, rainstick, percussion, glurp)
- Linda Kohanov (frame drum)
