Spaces

Track Listings

1. the radiation song

2. persona

3. android

4. zero g

5. drummer

6. four star girl

7. screen

8. light speed

9. Penny

Editorial Reviews
Seattle Weakly Aug 3
. . .Their new album spaces sounds a bit like Devo. But blasting out of pod bay doors is what I would do.

Product Description
New Seattle based indie music with hooks.

Spaces

Spaces,Little Luann

Spaces

Tracks:

I Can Love You Better
Wide Open Spaces
Loving Arms
There's Your Trouble
You Were Mine
Never Say Die
Tonight The Heartache's On Me
Let 'Er Rip
Once You've Loved Somebody
I'll Take Care Of You
Am I The Only One (Who's Ever Felt This Way)
Give It Up Or Let Me Go

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The major-label debut from this Texas trio proves their instrumental abilities, blending more traditional twang with slow melodic blues, foot-tapping rockabilly, and bluegrass-inspired pop harmonies. From the opener, "I Can Love You Better," the Chicks let their love of music and genuine joy shine through while the energy on this album reminds one of Carlene Carter. Solid musicianship, topnotch vocal performances, and infectious pop hooks make this a stellar project. --Paula Ghergia

Customer Reviews:

Dixie Chicks.......2007-08-04

One of the best CDs I have ever heard. I listen to it all the time. Gets me pumped up on my way to the gym to work out.

One of the best debuts every.......2007-06-19

This debut album by the Dixie Chicks is truly great. It is true country music [with fiddles and all!] but is very accessible and enjoyable for people who like other genres. I was gonna give a list of the better songs, but they're most all good tunes. This is before the Chicks got jammed up in Iraq War politics [not all their own fault]; back when they were renowned as good musicians, which they undoubtedly are, as a listen to this CD proves.

Love it!.......2007-06-13

This is definitely one of my favorite CDs. The Dixie Chicks manage to mix incredible vocal and instrumental talent with meaningful lyrics and catchy melodies. Here's a guide, song-by-song:

1. I Can Love You Better -- an easy to relate to song that'll make you want to sing along with its catchy beat.

2. Wide Open Spaces -- Something everybody can relate to, especially teenagers. The melody is nice, but it's the lyrics that really make this song special.

3. Loving Arms -- this song is different from some of the other ballads on the CD, because of the fact that while it is a classic country ballad, it is not drawn out to all eternity. Beautiful lyrics and a lovely melody make it one of my favorites.

4. There's Your Trouble -- definitely my favorite song on the disc. Pure fun, and very catchy. You'll find yourself playing it again and again.

5. You Were Mine -- in my opinion, the worst song on this CD. While the words ARE meaningful, they are depressing and drawn out forever and ever. Every word seems to be held out for ages, and the lyrics are sad to the point of being corny. Perhaps the only song that I wasn't impressed with.

6. Never Say Die -- a sweet, romantic song.

7. Tonight The Heartache's On Me -- if you're not into hard-core country, than skip over this track, which celebrates classic country music. I personally love it for it's traditional melody.

8. Let 'Er Rip -- a ton of fun, with lots of attitude and spunk.

9. Once You've Loved Somebody -- a beautiful melody with meaningful lyrics.

10. I'll Take Care of You -- the second worst song on the album, while the words are nice I had little patience to listen to the almost four minutes of this drawn out ballad.

11. Am I The Only One (Who's Ever Felt This Way) -- a very relatable song with a great guitar melody.

12. Give It Up Or Let Me Go -- a ton of fun, very enjoyable.

You should definitely give this CD a try!

I love this album!!.......2007-05-07

This is my favoite album to play in the car. I listen to it over and over. I love the political overtones, but the music is great, too!! I am not a Country Music fan, but I love this album.

a bigger flip flop than Kerry.......2007-03-24

The country music crowd built the Chicks up, then they went to England and showed their true side. As a result country music lovers, true to their country, turned on the Chicks; so now the Chicks say that their music isn't country. I say that their music isn't music but it just noise.

Average customer rating:

flavour of the really weak!
Great album
More than excellent
Doesn't anyone notice the boring and trite percussion?
Semantic Spaces an above-average CD

Semantic Spaces
Delerium
Manufacturer: Nettwerk Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Front Line Assembly enlists Kirsty Thirsk of the Rose Chronicles for a heavenly ambient house project. Trance that bounces with beauty and energy. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews:

flavour of the really weak! .......2007-05-08

It's listenable, but far too much of the album is directly cribbed from Enigma's MCMXC a.D.

Great album.......2007-01-10

I'm a huge Delerium fan and this CD is among their greatest. It really shows off Kristy Thirsk's beautiful vocal talents. This album is well worth the money!

More than excellent.......2006-12-13

The best music created. If you want to enjoy music and life at the same time listen to it. Strongly recommended.

Doesn't anyone notice the boring and trite percussion?.......2006-10-24

All the nice things said in the other reviews are reasonably true, but sheesh! Electronica offers infinite options for percussion - it does not HAVE to be trite, incredibly monotonous, and synthetic sounding. This is the bane of so much electronica, it's a joke. Nothing with a petty-swingin' rhythm can be good. I would give this album four or five stars if I could just erase the silly percussion tracks - almost identical in half the songs. Get the Karma album instead.

Semantic Spaces an above-average CD.......2006-08-08

This CD is pretty good. It is definitely above average. I was not disappointed. For $13.98 it is an excellent value. However, the $2.98 for shipping was a little too high and it destroyed the original value that came with paying $13.98 for a CD. I would have liked to pay $2.00 or less for shipping. Other than that, the music is above average. I would have given my purchase 5 stars instead of 4 if it had not been for the expensive shipping costs.

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Disappointing
Amazing sounds!
A harkening back to Quiet Music
Diamond of Eternity
A masterpiece.

Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (part 1)
Steve Roach
Manufacturer: Projekt Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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immersion : one

ASIN: B00009L1T8
Release Date: 2003-06-03

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After dark descents into the abyss on The Magnificent Void and Midnight Moon, Steve Roach lightens up the textures a bit on the double CD Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces. The mood harkens back to his influential 1984 release, Structures From Silence, but the atmospheres are more textured and layered while melody is virtually non-existent. And while Structures had a slow motion pulse, Mystic Chords hangs rhythm free. It floats in a space of richly detailed, but minutely shifting sound constructs that owe more to Gyorgy Ligeti and Mark Rothko than early Roach touchstones like Klaus Schulze and Salvador Dali. Roach is creating a free fall through space, less rooted in the pulsing techno-tribal sound of his 1990s music, and more ecstatic in its evocations of something beyond. He carries you to groaning turgid depths, then lifts you as electric guitar glides and synthesizers gurgle, shudder, and swell in an Aurora Borealis of sound. --John Diliberto

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing.......2007-08-04

While I recognize the artistry that created Steve Roach's, "Magnificent Void," I was completely underhwelmed by this set of several hours of his drone music. If you don't know by now, the drone sound is created by holding down several adjacent keys on a synthesizer and twiddling with the controls. This can add an interesting effect but unless this varies enough to maintain interest, it can also be tedious - like listening to white noise for hours on end. The drone sound is to Roach what the repetitive arpeggio is to Philip Glass. Both composers are capable of fascinating music. But both composers can also be slackers and substitute their signature sound/trick for intelligent and new music. If you like drones, this will be up your alley. rather than finding a fascinating soundscape to escape to and meditate in, I found this very boring.

Amazing sounds!.......2007-05-26

I bought this CD to use for a shamanic journey that I was hoping to go on. The two CDs are very soothing and very suitable for meditations or for just relaxing. The sounds are amazing.

A harkening back to Quiet Music.......2006-03-19

Steve Roach has so many roots that to say he is harkening back to any one of them requires additional explanation. In this case he is reaching deeply into his more meditative sounds, akin to but by no means a repeat of "Structures from Silence" and "Quiet Music."
The first time I played this double album I had some guests over discussing a novel one of them had written. Just hearing it once lead to another sale to someone who was completely unfamiliar with Steve's music. Very melodious beautiful sounds.

Diamond of Eternity.......2005-10-12

So, that's much more than music. This album is a treasure!!!
I could rate it even with infinity of stars if I could!!!
It is STAR itself.

Synths and pads, which come under your skin and you feel part of this sensation. When I listen to it - I close my eyes and find myself drifting through the Universe. It is exactly what I always wish to hear when I think of Time and Space, about eternity. Real MASTERPIECE!!! So, this album is destinied to have it in collection for those, who wants to go loose in order to forget anything uncomfortable and boring.
Happy flight to the STARS!!!

Oleg

A masterpiece........2005-06-12

This is easily one of Steve Roach's finest hours - well, 5 hours to be more precise, if you get the complete set (it is available in either a 2-CD or 4-CD version). Disc 1 of 4, Mystic Chords, is what I would call the "classic" organic ambient style of Steve Roach; Labyrinth is his dark ambient style; Recent Future is a tasty variety sampler platter; and Piece of Infinity is one of Steve's trademark minimal long-form works, perhaps the subtlest and softest he has ever done. My favorite is the first disc, 5 tracks running from nearly 12 to just over 20 minutes each. There are great highs and lows, wonderful deep drones and high shimmering tones, all richly layered in an organic primordial soup that touches a vibrant nerve for a thoroughly soothing listening experience. Reaching deeper still is Labyrinth, 10 tracks that plunge deep into "The Otherworld," a track which is representative of the intense darkness found at several moments on disc two. Though undeniably Roach, I'm also reminded here of old haunting Schulze numbers from the early 1970s. Disc 3, Recent Future, is still a little dark, but not as much as Labyrinth. Not a beat is heard, but the variety on these 13 tracks while retaining a cohesive quality is remarkable. Light, dark, simple, complex, visceral, elegant - all are apt adjectives to describe the music. Sample to your heart's delight, or better yet, play it through from beginning to end and hear the flow as Steve intended. Consider it time very well spent.

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byrdman classic
There are no words ...
Had to have it!
Not Your Imagination - This is Real!!
This belongs in the Hall of Fame

Places and Spaces
Donald Byrd
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Places & Spaces
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Customer Reviews:

byrdman classic.......2007-06-23

This is the bomb!!!! jazz/funk that still stands the test of time,every track of this stellar recording, reminds of when i was a young man,sitting on the stoop listening to this and many other great artist of this era,a must for any who can appreciate early jazz/funk/fusion.

There are no words ..........2006-12-21

What amazes me about music as I research and study it as I do, is the fact that I can still be surprised and how fluid an album can be 20 plus years after it's inital release. Being of the hip-hop/turntablism era, with all the sampling we do, all that I can say is that this album is responsible for a lot of what we know today. From Black Moon/Smif-N-Wessun, to Pete Rock, to Tupac, this album has been generously sampled (like a LOT of the Blue Note catalog) for good reason. Driving bass accompanying lush grooves make this a great listen and a must have for any music lover. True instrumentalism is of the order here. Flutes, violins, and rolling keybords abound and for 1976 this was a forward thinking album. It's a shame that the stubborn dinosaurs that traditional jazz fans can be turned their nose up at and turned their backs on Donald Byrd, accusing him of 'selling out', yet this is no different from what Miles Davis was trying to do with his fusion; and what Herbie Hancock and Ramsey Lewis have done throughout most of their careers. What a tragedy for this is some of the best jazz fusion to be had from anyone, anywhere.

Had to have it!.......2006-07-06

Donald Byrd is a classic artist. This album has some mellow music that relaxes the sole. I have it on vinyl, and have been searching for it on cd. So glad to have found it!

Not Your Imagination - This is Real!!.......2006-03-22

Many jazz aficionados would say in general that Donald Byrd "sold out" by exploring more of a commercial/contemporary music sound as opposed to staying with traditional jazz and exploring moreso in that genre. On this album, Donald Byrd, really took a back seat to superior producers Larry and Fonze Mizell. The key to songs like Dominoes and Places and Spaces is the catchy melody/harmony these guys came up with. Then top it off with a phenomenal breakdown as you transition from the melody. Yes DB, with his talent, could have done more traditional jazz. Yet Donald Byrd showed that you can explore new rhythms with the combination of acoustic and electronic instruments. Gotta have this in your collection. Keep swingin.

This belongs in the Hall of Fame.......2006-03-11

Don't believe the hype checkit but if your a fellow souljah just get it!

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Beautifully Relaxing
I don't like New Age Music
Breathing Spaces
Music that touches your soul
In Love Jiang

Breathing Spaces
Jiang Xiao-Qing
Manufacturer: Pacific Moon [Alleg]
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Album Description

Even in the deepest quiet, there is a resonance within the stillness. The exquisite and graceful timbres of the Gu Zheng (Chinese zither) transport you to an interlude of serenity.

Jiang Xiao-Qing is a member of the famous Li Hua ensemble ("Asian Blossoms," "road to OASIS"), and Pacific Moon is now proud to present "Breathing Spaces," her first solo album for the label.

To enhance your enjoyment of the music, removable incense sticks are included in the spine of the CD jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

Beautifully Relaxing.......2007-07-27

This is one of the most wonderful Asian CDs I've heard. It's peaceful and relaxing. Thank you!!

I don't like New Age Music.......2006-03-26

But this is good music. I got this to do Tai Chi to and it works great . I've bought Cd's that are supposedly for Tai Chi and the flow required just isn't there. This cd is not only smooth and flowing enough for Tai Chi, but also 'quiet' and soft enough for meditation, and at the same time just nice enough to put on at home or in the car and just LISTEN to. It never sounds repetitive or too minimal , and yet it doesn't change so drastically in tempo or tone that Tai Chi or meditation is adversely affected. I love it and very highly recommend it.

Breathing Spaces.......2006-03-09

Hypnotic ~ this is the utmost best albulm. Her music is breath-taking. It mentally catures you, takes you away to a magical place, then leaves you with a tingeling sense gladness. I listen to it all the time. I wish Jiang Xiao-Qing had more CD's ... I'd buy them all.

Music that touches your soul.......2005-06-17

Absolutely brilliant and peaceful.
If you can combine "calming, touching, heartwarming, soothing" into one word, let me know so I can describe just how good this CD is!

Jim

In Love Jiang.......2005-04-20

I have found a new and personal friend in Jiang Xiao-Qing. A very personal serenade for those quiet moments in the evenings of life.

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The Spaces in Between
John Surman
Manufacturer: Ecm Records
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This is a development of the John Surman Coruscating project, now nearly a decade old, in which the reeds virtuoso and his long-time jazz/classical bass partner Chris Laurence explore chamber jazz with a classical string quartet. The Trans4mation String Quartet, notably violinist Rita Manning, demonstrate a subtler understanding of Surman's intentions than on Coruscating, and Manning's unaccompanied account of the title track is the centrepiece. The echo of the St Gerold Church broadens the soundscape for the leader's powerful baritone sax on the gently swaying opener and the haunting North African cadences of Mimosa (written for oud player Anouar Brahem). The 1970 Surman classic Where Fortune Smiles (originally a full-on roar with John McLaughlin) now substitutes a silky grace for its old muscularity. Wayfarers All, a typical Surman posh knees-up, is rural-sounding but loose, and the romantic Winter Wish is an exquisite exercise in extended soprano-sax improvisation, sounds skimming and darting like moths in pools of light. Some jazzers will miss a rhythm section's punch, but the textures are delicious.

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Good travel music
what a nice compilation
Guaranteed to put you in a good mood!!
Not just for kids
Fabulous for the whole family!

Bright Spaces
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Arthurs Theme Song - Ziggy Marley And The Melody Makers
Bling-Blang - Arlo Guthrie
Something In My Shoe - Raffi
Bossa By The Numbers - The Crawdaddys
Old MacDonald - The Dream Project
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Raffi seems to be the driving force behind Bright Spaces, a benefit album whose proceeds will be distributed by the Bright Horizons Foundation for Children for homeless kids living in shelters. Out of the 16 tracks here, the ubiquitous children's music superstar contributes four, including one of his most memorable, "All I Really Need." And in an inspired moment, Arlo Guthrie joins his late famous father, Woody, for a father-son duet of "This Land Is Your Land," the other American national anthem. With songs by Sweet Honey in the Rock, the delightful Jessica Harper, John McCutcheon, singer-activist Si Kahn, David Mallett, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, and others, Bright Spaces generates its own special brightness and sheltering warmth. Along with the theme song from Arthur and Friends by Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers, Bright Spaces features a funky and unforgettable call-and-response gospel version of "Old MacDonald" by Jane Sapp's Dream Project. From Sapp's great We've All Got Stories, this cut alone is worth having for kids and adults. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews:

Good travel music.......2007-06-16

This is a good CD of travel music that does NOT drive my husband nuts. We call it the 'Arthur' CD, as the first song is the Ziggy Marley song that is the credits song for the PBS series ("And I say HEY! What a wonderful kind of day...") I appreciate the mix of artists and 'listen-able' music. PLUS it's for a good cause. A CD that my first grader and 3 yr old both like to listen to. And it doesn't make daddy crazy.

what a nice compilation.......2007-02-20

Nice selection of songs. A pleasure to listen to.
Too bad the CD 2 is not as good as this one (too "folk / country" for my taste...)

Guaranteed to put you in a good mood!!.......2006-11-07

This is my favorite CD right now; it has been since I bought it more than a month ago. And I'm a grown-up! I love the songs by Ziggy Marley, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Raffi, and (most of all) Cathy and Marcy. All those warm fuzzies *and* your money goes to build safe and enriching play spaces in shelters for homeless families.

Not just for kids.......2005-02-26

What a great cd to have in your collection. As a preschool teacher this cd is a staple in my classroom. It is also good to have in the van at all times. It is a wonderful collection of songs by some wonderful artist. My favorite song is the version of Old MacDonalds farm. The songs are fun and exciting. Not to mention the proceeds help out children living in homeless shelters. This is a must have for anyone!

Fabulous for the whole family!.......2004-07-30

We got this CD as a gift for my 2 1/2 year old and now buy it to share with all his friends. The music is so upbeat, and the variety keeps you singing through the whole CD. Even my newborn loves it! And the plus is that proceeds go to Bright Horizons so you feel good suppoting it, too. Highly recommended for everyone with young kids.

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Will happily upgrade this to a 5 star...
hypnotic yet melodic
The Spaces You Forgot to Listen In
Henry Frayne gives us more luminescent guitarscapes

Highways
Lanterna
Manufacturer: Badman Records
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Highways

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Will happily upgrade this to a 5 star..........2007-08-01

Really amazing and soothing music, up until the last track. Can anyone explain the 4.5 minute gap after the first 4 minutes of Highways? I thought the CD was defective until I ordered a replacement and found it was the same. Without the last track this album deserves a 5.

hypnotic yet melodic.......2007-05-10

one song is reminiscent of an instrumental version of All I want is you by U2... Can become repetitive over time...

The Spaces You Forgot to Listen In.......2005-03-29

If you were dreaming and driving at night with someone you love, this album is what you would hear on the wind.

We've got access finally to a lot of independent, new music. This is a time to explore and if you're up for it, anything by Lanterna (Henry Frayne is the key individual) is worth the time and the money. Highways is the latest incarnation of this talented musician's sonic mind. I listen to Highways in the early morning and sometimes driving by myself at night. This is definitely music to listen to by yourself. It is music for the soul--jangly guitar, acoustic rhythms, textured drums, poetic vibrations, and ambient sounds...even an intentional few minutes of silence in there on the title track for those of us who pay attention--and a payoff afterwards...kind of an untitled new composition.

Word is that Lanterna's coming out with a new album sometime in the summer so pay attention. Highways is a great jumping point for the uninitiated though. Elm Street is still my favorite, but I'm really looking forward to the next edition. Stay tuned.

Henry Frayne gives us more luminescent guitarscapes.......2004-03-02

An hour with Henry Frayne, creator of music under the band name Lanterna, is a little like an hour of exploring the ocean depths or the vast reaches of space. He creates sonic pictures of the mind with his lingering, layered electric guitar chords and atmospheric melodies. The leadoff track, "Clear Blue," is just the latest fine example of Mr. Frayne's instrumental art. It shimmers with a kind of subliminal beauty, made by echoing sustained guitar tones that could be described as "ambient," but are best appreciated without concern for category. The CD is called Highways, and listening to its nine tracks is indeed something like a journey along the back roads, sometimes in contemplation and sometimes in sheer enjoyment. On this fourth Lanterna disc, the trend continues (begun on the Sands CD) of mixing in more of a rock feeling with some of the songs. This time it's on the Metheny-esque "Brooklyn" and especially on "Brightness," which features some David Gilmour-like choppy electric guitar chords.

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New Moon At Forbidden Mesa
Desert Prayer - Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny
In The Heat Of Venus
The Slow Turning
Western Spaces - Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny

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Combining Roach's ambiance with Braheny's lyrical passages on electronic woodwinds, Western Spaces was the first of two collaborations based on the landscapes of the American Southwest--in particular the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. The ambient "New Moon at Forbidden Mesa" contains hints of high winds, muted angelic voices, and echoing coyote howls, while "Desert Prayer," opening with a cathedralesque keyboard figure, introduces a synthesized vocal sound not unlike a violin or a Middle Eastern cantor. Where later Roach albums deal strictly in color and timbre, Spaces incorporates the idea of melodic text. The solo voices and arpeggiated figures become a narrative that knits together the streams of consciousness expressed through layers of drone and percussion--like a sidewinder leaving trails across the desert floor. --James Rotondi

Customer Reviews:

the sound of dry air and sand, and blue, blue skies.............2007-04-15

This CD represents the zenith in ambient musical imagination. Roach has actually captured sonically the expereince of gazing out over a summer desert landscape. Anyone who has been lucky enought to wander around the US desert southwest on foot, horseback or even in a car, chasing the endless horizon and feeling the heat waft over the skin, will recognize the emotions that this disc elicits. Minimal percussion throughout, although what is there enhances the deep, shimmering synth waves tremendously. Please play this on a high-end sound system and don't be timid with the volume control.
Highly recommended.

Inspiring..........2001-12-20

The awe and picturesque environs of the Southwest have long provided inspiration to writers and painters. What better way to bring out the desolation, expansiveness, and metaphor of the region than via state-of-the-art electronics? Roach, of course, was already investigating the means whereby organica becomes electronica on his classic DREAMTIME RETURN set. Together with fellow synthesist Braheny, Roach again uses his amazing conceptual acumen to bring out the desert's unrevealed secrets.
Listening to "In the Heat of Venus," you can also see the heat haze wafting sinuously through the air and circling the mountain's edges-a spell woven with kalimbas, woodblock percussion, and synthesizers whose sounds are burned amber-red. "Desert Walkabout" embraces a more elegiac, serene, and almost classical sensibility, shot through with Braheny's ghostly electronic wind-instrument caterwauls, mock-harp spicing, delicate percussives, and Roach's lonesome synth chords. Check your compass at the door, and melt into the horizon.

wide open spaces.......2000-12-04

This wonderfully sublime album comes from Roach's "atmospheric ambient" period of the late 1980s that produced 'Dreamtime Return' and 'Desert Solitaire,' among other works. There is a good deal of the Southwest outdoors that Roach loves on this work, and the pieces breathe with the same kind of expansiveness and natural harmony that made 'Dreamtime' such a success. The original release of 'Western Spaces' in 1987 included works by Richard Burmer; these are deleted in the 1990 Fortuna version. This is truly too bad, because one of those pieces is "Across the View," Burmer's signature work and one of the few ambient compositions yet produced that justly deserves the tag "masterpiece." Even without it, however, this one is well worth the listen.

wide open spaces.......2000-12-04

Roach's first official collaboration.......1999-02-04

Ambient/space music pioneer Steve Roach worked with other artists before Western Spaces, but this is his first official collaboration for strictly discographic purposes. Originally released on Innovative Communications (a label founded by Klaus Schulze, Roach's primary musical influence), the album contained contributions by Richard Burmer, who was cut out when the album was re-released on Fortuna Records in 1990. Western Spaces remains one of Roach's most beautiful releases--the solo track by Braheny and "Desert Prayer" are perhaps the best, but the Roach/ Thom Brennan piece "In the Heat of Venus" is astounding---I don't think Roach has recorded a more powerful piece of music since, quite honestly, though some could argue effectively against that I'm sure-- Dreamtime Return may be the only exception.

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Little Spaces
American Princes
Manufacturer: Yep Roc
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000A6QWZG
Release Date: 2005-08-23

Tracks:

I Want To Be Good
Rock N Roll Singer
Man's Work
In The Dark
Little Spaces
Providence, R.I.
Eyeliner
The Sun Never Sets
What's This We've Found
100 Eyes
Revolver

Album Description

Yep Roc Records is proud to introduce the next household name in indie rock--American Princes. Little Spaces, their debut full-length, delivers a bevy of terse, powerful, loud-as-hell rock amp; roll straight from Arkansas to your soon-to-be-shaken musical world. The rotating lead vocals of guitarists Collins Kilgore and David Slade and bassist John Beachboard create a push and pull of remarkably powerful shifts of mood while drummer Matt Quin mans the throttle. The Nashville Scene calls them "Shaggy modern rock traditionalists" who are "putting the 'rock' back in indie rock." And Punk Planet says, "Thank goodness Little Rock is represented by someone besides Amy Lee of Evanescence. Give them a chance, because you won't be disappointed."

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