Landmass (album)

Landmass
Live album by Steve Roach
Released August 1, 2008
Recorded at WXPN (88.5 FM), Philadelphia, PA
Genre Ambient
Length 66:58
Label Timeroom Editions
Producer Steve Roach
Steve Roach chronology
A Deeper Silence
(2008)		 Landmass
(2008)		 Nada Terma (2008)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
e/i Magazine (positive)[1]
Heathen Harvest (positive)[2]
Tokafi (positive)[3]

Landmass (2008) is an album by the American ambient musician Steve Roach.

Contents

Production

The tracks on Landmass were recorded on May 20, 2007,[4] live on the Star's End radio program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Only a few hours after Steve Roach had given a concert at the Episcopal Church at Penn, his equipment was moved to the WXPN studio where, beginning a little after two in the morning, Roach performed and created each track. The sounds, themes, and sonic "sub-structures" were prepared ahead of time, and the tracks were later edited for length prior to their release.[5]

Release

Landmass was chosen to be the 20th release on Steve Roach's Timeroom Editions label, which also celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2008.[3]

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Transmigration"   15:31
2. "Cerulean Blue Sky Over a Seared Desert Wasteland"   15:36
3. "Monuments of Memory"   11:22
4. "Alluvial Plain"   9:46
5. "Trancemigration"   7:52
6. "Stars Begin"   6:51

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Bergstein, Darren (September 26, 2008). "Installment 17: Steve Roach – Landmass (Timeroom Editions)". e/i Magazine. http://eiaudioverite.blogspot.com/2008/09/installment-17.html. Retrieved 3 February 2010. 
  2. ^ Adonis, Blond (October 16, 2008). "Steve Roach – Landmass". Heathen Harvest. http://www.heathenharvest.com/article.php?story=20081016023936856. Retrieved 2010-01-06. 
  3. ^ a b Fischer, Tobias (June 27, 2008). "Steve Roach: "Landmass"". Tokafi. http://www.tokafi.com/newsitems/cd-feature-steve-roach-landmass/. Retrieved 2010-01-06. 
  4. ^ Howarth, Matt. "Steve Roach: Landmass (CD on Timeroom Editions)". Sonic Curiosity. http://www.soniccuriosity.com/sc372.htm. Retrieved 3 February 2010. 
  5. ^ "Roach, Steve: Landmass". Projekt. http://www.projekt.com/projekt/product.asp?sku=TIM00020. Retrieved 3 February 2010. 

See also

Studio albums
Now (1982) · Traveler (1983) · Structures from Silence (1984) · Quiet Music 1 (1986) · Empetus (1986) · Quiet Music 2 (1986) · Quiet Music 3 (1986) · Quiet Music (1988) · Dreamtime Return (1988) · World's Edge (1992) · Now / Traveler (1992) · Origins (1993) · Artifacts (1994) · The Magnificent Void (1996) · On This Planet (1997) · Slow Heat (1998) · Quiet Music: Complete Edition (1999) · Early Man (2000) · Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (2003) · Life Sequence (2003) · Fever Dreams (2004) · Immersion : Three (2007) · A Deeper Silence (2008) · Dynamic Stillness (2009) · Destination Beyond (2009) · Afterlight (2009) · Immersion : Four (2009)
Live albums
Spirit Dome (2004) · Landmass (2008)
Compilations
Collaboration albums
Western Spaces (1987) with Kevin Braheny · Desert Solitaire (1989) with Kevin Braheny and Michael Stearns · Strata (1990) with Robert Rich · Australia: Sound of the Earth (1990) with David Hudson and Sarah Hopkins · Soma (1992) with Robert Rich · Kiva (1995) with Michael Stearns and Ron Sunsinger · Halcyon Days (1996) with Stephen Kent and Kenneth Newby · Body Electric (1999) with Vir Unis · Vine ~ Bark & Spore (2000) with Jorge Reyes · The Serpent's Lair (2000) with Byron Metcalf