Desert_Solitaire_(album)

<i>Desert Solitaire</i> (album)

Desert Solitaire (album)

1989 studio album by Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny and Michael Stearns

Desert Solitaire is a collaborative album by American ambient musicians Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny, and Michael Stearns. This album was conceived as a follow-up to Roach and Braheny's 1987 collaboration Western Spaces.

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The title of the album is named after the eponymous book by U.S. author Edward Abbey, who died the same year and to whom the album is dedicated.

Track listing

  1. "Flatlands" (Roach) (4:49)
  2. "Labyrinth" (Sterns) (6:56)
  3. "Specter" (Roach) (9:34)
  4. "The Canyon's Embrace" (Roach, Stearns) (3:35)
  5. "Cloud of Promise" (Roach, Stearns) (6:38)
  6. "Knowledge & Dust" (Braheny) (3:23)
  7. "Shiprock" (Stearns) (4:00)
  8. "Highnoon" (Roach, Stearns) (10:30)
  9. "Empty Time" (Braheny) (5:51)
  10. "From the Heart of Darkness" (Stearns) (3:50)
  11. "Desert Solitaire" (Roach, Braheny) (6:06)

Personnel

with

  • Chuck Oken, Jr. (shakers on “Flatlands”)
  • Robert Rich (dumbek and gourd drums on “Specter”)
  • Goergianne Cowan (voice on “Specter”)
  • Miguel Rivera (effects and ghost percussion on “Labyrinth” and “From the Heart of Darkness”)
  • Leonice Shinneman (percussion, pakhawaj, manjerra, African berimbau, melodic rattle, claves on “Empty Time”)
  • Hyman Katz (flute on “From the Heart of Darkness”)

References

  1. [1]
    "Desert Solitaire". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
  2. [2]
    October 1989
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