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Slow Heat | Steve Roach | 1:11:20 | Album Only | View In iTunes |
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Album Review
Slow Heat is the ultimate in desert ambience. Steve Roach, the premier desert ambience artisan, created this long-form (71 minutes) piece in response to his own desert habitat in Tucson, AZ. The imagery of this music is incredible. It sounds like heat — listeners will hear the shimmering of the desert sands. They will hear the cacti baking in the sun and they will hear themselves sweat. The imagery is visual, too. Roach's organics bring the soundscape to life. The desert is incredibly active, but the activity is slow. This piece evolves fittingly and slowly. There is no crescendo, only a languid buildup to a slow denouement. Roach remains on his own plane; his discs compare best to themselves. This disc is intended for continuous play and it is the natural follow-up to Western Spaces, Desert Solitaire, and Dust to Dust. It is also one of the Top Five ambient CDs ever.
Customer Reviews
Best in Class for evocative ambient
I can't overstate how effective "Slow Heat" is at executing its concept. The listener experiences a day in the life of the desert, from dawn to dusk. Utterly evocative. It really doesn't get better than this. A piece like this causes me to marvel at how Roach is able to craft a musical language that aesthetically describes, in essence, physical processes. Essential ambient listening.
Hypnotic
This album grew on me like other steve roach albums such as midnight moon at first i hated his music but for background or sleeping i like this album. It has a kind of hypnotic feel to it. Waves flow in and out like drones with some sounds of the desert as well. I actually like this better then the dream circle now.
Biography
Born: 1955 in California
Genre: New Age
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s
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- $9.99
- Genres: New Age, Music, Alternative, Electronic
- Released: Jan 01, 1998
- ℗ 1998 Timeroom Editions
