Western Spaces

Untitled
Studio album by Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny and Richard Burmer
Released 1987
Recorded at The Timeroom and Kevin Braheny's studio in Los Angeles, California
Genre Ambient
Length 68:51
Label Fortuna Records
Producer Steve Roach, Chuck Oken, Jr.
Steve Roach chronology
Quiet Music 3
(1986)		 Western Spaces
(1987)		 The Leaving Time
(1988)
Kevin Braheny chronology
Lullaby for the Hearts of Space
(1986)		 Western Spaces
(1987)		 Galaxies
(1988)
Richard Burmer chronology
Bhakti Point
(1987)		 Western Spaces
(1987)		 On the Third Extreme
(1988)
Alternative cover
Innovative Communications release.
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Piero Scaruffi 6/10 [2]
Q favorable [3]

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.

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.

Contents

Track listings

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

References

  1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r83545
  2. ^ http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/roach.html
  3. ^ http://www.steveroach.com/Press/review.php?id=173 February 1991

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