On This Planet

Editorial Reviews
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Opening with a violent clap of thunder, Roach's first live album lives up to its creator's exhortation that you "turn it up, feel it in your bones!" Though it's built from the same glassy, ghostly synthesizer drones, didgeridoo howls, and clay-pot ethnic rhythms as much of his other work, On This Planet is a more visceral, less trancelike experience. Aided by mysterious voices murmuring about being "haunted by visions that have been painted from the inside out," the music suggests a very intense, Castanedan peyote journey through an otherworldly desert landscape (tripping over the odd beer can). Swirling noise clusters, shuddering rain sticks, shamanic chanting, rhythms that sprint across the spectrum like organic drum & bass beats--this isn't your father's New Age. A maxed-out 72 minutes on one CD, On This Planet makes an ideal, if quicker-paced, introduction to Roach's aesthetic, a potent distillation of his more mind-bending materials. --James Rotondi

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Opening with a violent clap of thunder, Roach's first live album lives up to its creator's exhortation that you "turn it up, feel it in your bones!" Though it's built from the same glassy, ghostly synthesizer drones, didgeridoo howls, and clay-pot ethnic rhythms as much of his other work, On This Planet is a more visceral, less trancelike experience. Aided by mysterious voices murmuring about being "haunted by visions that have been painted from the inside out," the music suggests a very intense, Castanedan peyote journey through an otherworldly desert landscape (tripping over the odd beer can). Swirling noise clusters, shuddering rain sticks, shamanic chanting, rhythms that sprint across the spectrum like organic drum & bass beats--this isn't your father's New Age. A maxed-out 72 minutes on one CD, On This Planet makes an ideal, if quicker-paced, introduction to Roach's aesthetic, a potent distillation of his more mind-bending materials. --James Rotondi

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On This Planet

On This Planet
On This Planet
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Reminds me of when I had a pet gerbil...
  • Classic Alternative Indie is Solid Ground for Future Music
  • Classic Steve Roach
  • One of his most addictive recordings to date
  • Roach's best
 On This Planet
Steve Roach
Manufacturer: Hearts of Space
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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MeditationMeditation | New Age | Styles | Music
ElectronicaElectronica | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B000000X82
Release Date: 1997-09-16

Tracks:

  1. Heart Of The Tempest
  2. Journey Of One
  3. The Nexus Place
  4. Trilobite
  5. Void Memory
  6. Cloud Watching With The Toolmaker
  7. The Ecstasy Of Travel
  8. Remember It Now
  9. A Darker Star
  10. On This Planet

Product Description

1. Heart Of The Tempest
2. Journey Of One
3. The Nexus Place
4. Trilobite
5. Void Memory 4
6. Cloud Watching With The Toolmaker
7. The Ecstasy Of Travel
8. Remember It Now
9. A Darker Star
10. On This Planet

Format: CD

Amazon.com essential recording

Opening with a violent clap of thunder, Roach's first live album lives up to its creator's exhortation that you "turn it up, feel it in your bones!" Though it's built from the same glassy, ghostly synthesizer drones, didgeridoo howls, and clay-pot ethnic rhythms as much of his other work, On This Planet is a more visceral, less trancelike experience. Aided by mysterious voices murmuring about being "haunted by visions that have been painted from the inside out," the music suggests a very intense, Castanedan peyote journey through an otherworldly desert landscape (tripping over the odd beer can). Swirling noise clusters, shuddering rain sticks, shamanic chanting, rhythms that sprint across the spectrum like organic drum & bass beats--this isn't your father's New Age. A maxed-out 72 minutes on one CD, On This Planet makes an ideal, if quicker-paced, introduction to Roach's aesthetic, a potent distillation of his more mind-bending materials. --James Rotondi

Amazon.com

Opening with a violent clap of thunder, Roach's first live album lives up to its creator's exhortation that you "turn it up, feel it in your bones!" Though it's built from the same glassy, ghostly synthesizer drones, didgeridoo howls, and clay-pot ethnic rhythms as much of his other work, On This Planet is a more visceral, less trancelike experience. Aided by mysterious voices murmuring about being "haunted by visions that have been painted from the inside out," the music suggests a very intense, Castanedan peyote journey through an otherworldly desert landscape (tripping over the odd beer can). Swirling noise clusters, shuddering rain sticks, shamanic chanting, rhythms that sprint across the spectrum like organic drum & bass beats--this isn't your father's New Age. A maxed-out 72 minutes on one CD, On This Planet makes an ideal, if quicker-paced, introduction to Roach's aesthetic, a potent distillation of his more mind-bending materials. --James Rotondi

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Reminds me of when I had a pet gerbil..........2003-05-23

I have really enjoyed everything I have heard by Steve Roach...up until now. The scritchy-clicky noises in this one remind me of trying to sleep while a pet gerbil is chewing on things in my bedroom late at night. Perhaps I have been spoiled by such brilliant gems as "Midnight Moon," "The Magnificent Void," "Quiet Music," or Roach's collaborations with Robert Rich. All of those recordings have gotten a great deal of airplay in my home late at night. I also enjoy "Early Man" and "Australia: Sound of the Earth" with David Hudson and Sarah Hopkins much more than this recording. Perhaps it will grow on me, but I like those others so much more, I doubt this one will get played much. I don't exactly dislike this recording, but it doesn't come close to my favorites.

5 out of 5 stars Classic Alternative Indie is Solid Ground for Future Music.......2003-05-05

'On This Planet' is a Live experiences for the testing gorund for sonic topography music. Steve Roach is an innovator into this rising inspiration of new types of indie music. His use of musical artifacts to bring together these compositions into an atmospheric art form are a work in itself. Some of these that Roach uses are various analog and digital synthesizers, didgeridoo, Northern Sonoran Dreampipe, matae (grinding stone), clay water pots, Udu drum, prehispanic flutes, assorted percussion, effect processors. The result is a collection of on-the-edge soundscapes from another world and dark ambient journeys. Others performers that accompany Roach in his creation of profound sound pieces are: Patrick O'Hearn on bass guitar, Roger King on pulse bass and Omar Faruk Tekbilek on bandir, darbuka and baglama. The voice you hear on 'Heart of the Tempest' are Linda Kohanov. She is accompanying voices with Roach on 'Remember It Now." Roach does his own vocals on 'Journey of One.' Since Roach has beeen doing this for 20 years and has done live music performances. He's known to have said he strives for the intensity that can be seen in front of an audience. He encourages his audience to travel the terrain he has mapped 'On This Planet' at it's volume level. So turn it up and feel the journey into your soul and let your spirit soar. If you liked the sounds of Suspended Memories (compilation with Roach), Vidna Obmana, Patrick O'Hearn and Robert Rich (did 'SoMa' with Roach) you're in for a surprise.

5 out of 5 stars Classic Steve Roach.......2002-11-03

Since I've been able to have the good fortune of seeing Steve Roach perform live in Philadelphia, I can tell this album definitely captures the excitement of a live concert. Steve Roach combines some elements from "Origins" and "The Magnificent Void" to create a very intense and exciting musical journey. Throw in plenty of didgeridoo and this is one of Steve Roach's best shamanic albums.

5 out of 5 stars One of his most addictive recordings to date.......2000-12-18

Those attracted to the techno-influenced sounds of Roach's collaboration with Vir Unis, "Body Electric", will find "On This Planet" irresistible. Based on the idea of creating an album based on improvisational live performances, Roach has seeked to bring the energy of his concerts back to the studio. He's done it before with albums like "Stormwarning" (1989), now available on his Timeroom Editions label (Tuscon, AZ). But unlike that recording which was entirely live and with no overdubs, "On This Planet" shows Roach taking tracks from different venues and improving upon them dramatically. From the thunderous cacaphony of "Heart of the Tempest" to the tribal-techno of "Remember It Now", it resembles a "greatest hits" album of sorts without really being such, more of an example of his different styles from different periods in his 20+ year-long career. As a result it's perfect for the newcomer along with the veteran fan.

Perhaps as significant an album as "Dreamtime Return", "Origins", and "The Magnificent Void", "On This Planet" offers some of Roach's deepest music yet. It clearly affirms what one reviewer said earlier, that he has become the "master of creating landscapes of the mind." Or of interstellar space, or of underwater expanses of ocean, or racing through the desert at the speed of sound, for example. Whatever your imagination has in store, Roach provides the perfect soundtrack to create your own mental roadmap.

Along with his usual assortment of synths, FX processors, and percussion, he ties in the exotic sounds of the bandir, darbuka, and baglama courtesy of Omar Faruk Tekbilek. Together they create a seething cauldron of frentic, runaway rhythms and howling digeridoo on "Void Memory 4" that is truly blistering in intensity as well as volume...rarer still when you consider that much of Roach's work doesn't rise above the 50-60 decibel level.

Roach's unique approach to electronic music leaves much to be desired by most of his peers. Instead of impressing us with his technical wizardry, he is more concerned with creating emotional sounds that have an uncanny way of impressing the intellect as well. He hasn't quite shaken his "Berlin School" (Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze) inspiration, as evidenced by the hyperkinetic nature of "On This Planet"...he's simply perfected an earthier approach he added to his music over a decade ago with "Dreamtime Return". This is the best example of electroacoustic music of the spacey/rhythmic variety yet.

5 out of 5 stars Roach's best.......1999-03-27

this is Roach's best shamanic CDs to date, this is like the perfection of his previous works and loose ends tied up for that phase of his evlovement
Stranger on This Planet
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    Binding: Audio CD
    ASIN: B000NVJRD2
    Release Date: 2007-05-08
    Alice in Stevie Wonderland
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      Micropixie
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      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B000CAKN6Y
      Release Date: 2005-10-04

      Tracks:

      1. Earth: A Kit
      2. Re: Incarnation
      3. Cognitive Dissonance
      4. Nocturnal Concrete Mountaineering
      5. Single Beige Female Looks Back in Dismay
      6. Projection, Honey
      7. Mothership
      8. Pour Me an Honourable Man
      9. Lesson
      10. Alice in Stevie Wonderland
      11. Evolving Whilst Revolving
      12. Premonition
      American Voice
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • A Young Tenor's Tribute to his Homeland
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      Manufacturer: Azica
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      Binding: Audio CD

      All Works by BarberAll Works by Barber | Barber, Samuel | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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      ASIN: B00006JNEI
      Release Date: 2002-10-01

      Tracks:

      1. I Gotta Get Back To New York
      2. America The Beautiful
      3. The Boatman's Dance
      4. American Hymn
      5. Puttin' On The Ritz
      6. Make Them Hear You
      7. God Bless America
      8. A Simple Song
      9. Sure On This Shining Night
      10. I Am An American/You're A Grand Old Flag
      11. Give Thanks
      12. Shenandoah
      13. My House
      14. Bright Mornin' Star's Arisin'
      15. Long Time Ago
      16. Simple Gifts
      17. God Bless My Planet
      18. Battle Hymn Of The Republic

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars A Young Tenor's Tribute to his Homeland.......2002-10-22

      A vibrant and touching journey through American music, from the Old American Songs of Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber's Sure on this Shining Night and Simple Song from Leonard Bernstein's Mass, through crossover Broadway tunes such as I Gotta Get back to New York and Putting on the Ritz, to heart-stoppingly patriotic hymns such as America the Beautiful and Battle Hymn of the Republic.

      Buy it now!!!
      Stranger on This Planet
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Wow oh Wow. Best Vocal Trance
      		 Stranger on This Planet

      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD
      ASIN: B000NQDDQY
      Release Date: 2007-04-10

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Wow oh Wow. Best Vocal Trance.......2007-05-08

      I have been listening to Vocal Trance for the past, oh, maybe 8 years. I love it. You get a certain feeling through your whole body when you hear one that is just "magical". This does it! You chills, you almost cry. DJ Shog is amazing in his work. This CD Single is amazing because non of the remixes let you down at all.
      Ivanhoe
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        		Ivanhoe
        Bunny Brunel
        Manufacturer: Planet Blue Records
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

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        ASIN: B000005WF8
        Release Date: 1996-07-16

        Tracks:

        1. Ivanoe
        2. Going Home
        3. Dede
        4. Latin
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        8. Nani
        Miseries Company
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          		Miseries Company

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          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
          ASIN: B000CA2PUG
          Release Date: 2004-11-23
          Bahia: Traditional Music and Moments of Brazil
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            		Bahia: Traditional Music and Moments of Brazil
            Pulse of the Planet Audio Journeys
            Manufacturer: Victory Multimedia Consignment
            ProductGroup: Music
            Binding: Audio CD

            GeneralGeneral | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music
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            GeneralGeneral | New Age | Styles | Music
            ASIN: B000CAKM9C
            Release Date: 2006-02-14

            Tracks:

            1. Festival Da Boa Morte, Cachoeira
            2. Samba, Master Vermelho and Group
            3. Gypsy Song, Itapoa
            4. Samba Da Viola, Amaralina, Salvador
            5. Woman Washing Clothes in River
            6. Fishermen's Songs, Itapoa
            7. Men Husking Coconuts, Itaparica
            8. Just Us Two, Itaparica
            9. Festival of St. Lazarus, Itaparica
            10. Morning Montage
            11. Hymn, Faith Healer, Salvador
            12. Men Playing Dominoes, Itaparica
            13. Samba Da Viola, With Vocals
            14. Ser-Tao
            15. Parrot and Girl, Feira de Santana
            16. Candomblde Alzira, Itaparica
            17. Vaqueiros (Cowboys), Feira Da Santana
            18. Capoeira, Master Vermelho and Group
            19. Soccer Game, Salvador
            20. Festival of St. Lazarus, Itaparica
            21. Samba Da Viola, Amaralina, Salvador
            22. Birthday Song, Boca Do Rio, Itapoint
            23. Samba, Port Seguro
            24. Fishermen's Songs, Itapoa
            25. Candomblde Alzira, Itaparica
            26. CandomblGroups, Salvador
            Out Standing In The Field
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              		Out Standing In The Field
              Maren Orion
              Manufacturer: Milagro Music Recordings
              ProductGroup: Music
              Binding: Audio CD

              GeneralGeneral | Folk | Styles | Music
              Folk RockFolk Rock | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music
              ASIN: B00005S8E6
              Release Date: 2001-10-13

              Tracks:

              1. Coming Through
              2. This Perfect Moment
              3. When I Say Love
              4. Moment of Truth
              5. Something Is Calling
              6. Follow Your Heart (with Tribal Revival)
              7. I'm Ready (with Tribal Revival)
              8. Hard Times
              9. 86 Years Old
              10. One By One
              11. The Boy Next Door
              12. Della Reed
              13. When I Grow Up
              14. Ocean
              15. Angels Watching Over You

              Album Description

              "Out Standing in the Field," is Maren Orion's first solo recording project. This collection of 15 original songs range in style from folk to blues and rock and is influenced by bluegrass and world beat music. This independently produced album is a testimony to following your heart to reach your dream. Maren's voice is rich and soulful. Her messages are positive and inspiring...Listen to your dreams...Enjoy every moment of this beautiful life...Be Grateful...Have Faith.
              This Is Rock 'N' Roll Radio, Volume 1
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                		This Is Rock 'N' Roll Radio, Volume 1
                Various Artists
                Manufacturer: JAM Recordings
                ProductGroup: Music
                Binding: Audio CD

                GeneralGeneral | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music
                ASIN: B000CAG8YK
                Release Date: 2005-03-01

                Tracks:

                1. Meghan Jean Cafarelli: Intro
                2. Chris von Sneidern: This Is Rock 'N' Roll Radio Id
                3. Flashcubes: Carl (You Da Man)
                4. DM3: 1 X 2 X Devastated
                5. Lolas: Sticker
                6. Johnny Popstar Luv Explosion: Oh Renee
                7. Ed James: Shiver & Shake
                8. Jeremy: What God Wants
                9. Chris Richards: It Doesn't Sound Like You
                10. Hello Helen: Fall's Far Away
                11. Shambles: Warm This Winter
                12. Jamie Hoover & Bill Lloyd: Screen Time
                13. Oohs: This Is Rock 'N' Roll Radio Id
                14. Oohs: Mr. Cliche
                15. Finkers: Last Thing on My Mind
                16. Rooks: Sometimes [Alternate Version]
                17. Lugless Booth: I Blame His Brother [Mickey Leigh Mix]
                18. Sex Clark 5: She's the End/Great Sheiks
                19. Flashing Astonishers: Period Exclamatory
                20. Jellybricks: She Can't
                21. Gary Pig Gold & Shane Faubert: Gotta Get in Touch
                22. Masticators: This Is Rock 'N' Roll Radio Id
                23. Lisa Mychols: Cactus Boy
                24. Chris von Sneidern: Lonely Tonight
                25. Kennedys: and Your Bird Can Sing
                26. Phil Angotti & The Idea: the Only Reason
                27. Florapop: Who Can Really Know?
                28. Popdudes: Desperation Time
                29. Dana & Carl (With Dave Murray): the Ballad of Jah Clampett

                Pop Music:

                1. One Deep Breath
                2. Panpipe Dreams
                3. Personal Rituals
                4. Piano Dreams & Nightscapes
                5. Piano Music
                6. Quiet Moments
                7. Quiet Moments
                8. Remembering the Vision
                9. Roggaboggas
                10. Sacred Journey

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