Artifacts (Steve Roach) - Definition

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 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

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”)

See also

• Steve Roach
• Ambient music
• Electronic music