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Steve Roach the master of space and time altering atmospheric
soundworlds has created another spellbinding look into our primordial
unconscious memory bank.
The music is best described as primeval innerspace deep ambient. early
man dreams in an ancient landscape of bubbling pools and marshlands,
verdant arroyos and monolithic rock formations. Cave paintings and
primitive [memories come to life in a slow soul-dance of evolutionary
magic. The accolades from press and listeners alike tell that early man
belongs to Roachs classic body of work which includes Dreamtime Return,
Origins, The Magnificent Void and last years quietly successful Midnight
Moon.
A day in the life of Early man
. Theres movement up ahead, a lone
figure on the edge of the abyss, teetering on the brink of darkness. He is
the First Soul, the Lonely Wanderer, the early man, and digital aural guru
Roach has provided his evolutionary soundtrack, sounds that upon
observation are situated in time like millennia-old fossils waiting for
the unearthing. Roach has travelled down these prehistoric roads before,
but never like this. This is his archetypal release, a staggering sonic
snapshot that time forgot. Originally released as a special limited
edition presented between 2 pieces of slate on manifold Records early
man is now a two-disc mammoth. Disc One is a hour plus journey into
quantum pulse and barren tones, as myriad noises chigger about and nestle
within the speaker fabric, as scuttling rhythms assume life and eke out
footprints in the prehistoric sediment, as immersive electro-tectonic
shifts map out the topography newly emerging underfoot. The 71 minute Disc
Two morphs the drones into whispering, quiescent, near-subtle beat
patterns and random incidences, as Roachs daunting electronic palette
yields a colorful bounty of ancestral dawns, preening skies, vivid earthen
architecture. early man is, simply put, a stunner.
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