Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return

Label:
Catalog#:
18055-2
Format:
2 x CD, Album
Country:
US
Released:
1988
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Ambient

Tracklist

1-01   Towards The Dream 7:09 X
1-02   The Continent 4:49 X
1-03   Songline 3:10 X
1-04   Airtribe Meets The Dream Ghost 7:00 X
1-05   A Circular Ceremony 11:20 X
1-06   The Other Side 13:16 X
    Engineer - Loren Nerell
1-07   Magnificent Gallery 6:11 X
1-08   Truth In Passing 8:44 X
1-09   Australian Dawn (The Quiet Earth Cries Inside) 6:17 X
2-01   Looking For Safety 31:21 X
2-02   Through A Strong Eye 6:50 X
2-03   The Ancient Day 6:05 X
2-04   Red Twilight With The Old Ones 9:53 X
    Featuring [Aboriginal Songmen] - Percy Trezise
2-05   The Return 8:33 X

Credits

Didgeridoo - David Hudson
Drums [Dembek, Gourd] - Robert Rich
Electronic Wind Instrument [Steiner Ewi] - Kevin Braheny
Mastered By - Dan Hersch
Producer - Ethan Edgecombe
Rainstick - Chuck Oken, Jr.

Notes

Re-issued 1998 in a different packaging but with the same catalog number.
Tracks 1-08 and 2-02 are exclusive to the CD version, and 2-01 is extended.

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Review by Numanoid Aug 11, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
This release could easily have been called "Selected Ambient Works BC", it's quite difficult to describe the beauty of it in words. The tracks are simple and minimal, but yet hit the nail on the head with perfect precision. "The Return" is just pure bliss. It's hard to believe that Roach used to be a professional motorbike racer!
Review by asphalteden Jul 19, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
Certainly one of the most important ambient releases of the last twenty-five years and most likely Roach's strongest and most representative work.

I remember the time and place I bought my copy (actually, my grandfather bought it for me), and, even after the first listen, it was nothing less than an introduction to a whole new world of sound and emotion. Dreamtime Return's effortless fusion of tribal and electronic instrumentation is ageless and doesn't sound at all dated, even on the neo-Berlin-School opener, "Toward the Dream," which gives me excited chills to this day. Each track blends seamlessly into the next and though this album is epic to say the least, it never becomes boring, static, or saccharine. The Aboriginal elements are tasteful and never exploitative like so many faux ethnic ambient and psy-trance releases from the early to mid-nineties.

I've been listening to this one for eleven years and it's always rich and powerful, the kind of music a person will live with for the rest of his or her life. An outstanding achievement.
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