Artifacts (album)

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

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

See also

• Ambient music
• Electronic music