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- Gone West [7:27]
- A Daze Wage [6:13]
- A Bigger Sky [3:19]
- The Ribbon Rails of Promise [10:53]
- First Sunrise [4:27]
- Lost and Forgotten [10:44]
- Snake Eyes [5:35]
- Rain and Creosote [5:02]
- Ghost Train [7:29]
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All tracks written and performed by Steve Roach and Roger King
What Drives A Man To Go West?Dust to Dust is the creation of restless, ever-pioneering composer Steve Roach and native-Tucsonian Roger King, a seasoned studio guitarist, sound engineer and patent medicine man. Their music grew out of a series of easy-going get-together to "see what the hell might happen." Roach and King soon discovered that growing up in the desert had mutually steeped them in the omnipresent influence of the Wild West in all its glory. Dust to Dust is western music in the truest sense. It is a bold step in a new direction: where sounds paint pictures with a range of colors drawn from the land, where stories are told with the instruments of old and new pioneers. Guitars, harmonicas and washboard rhythms find their place next to a wagon full of electronics. Roach and King manage to roll the clock back and jar it forward a bit, creating a unique piece of "New American West Music." "The music feels like torn leather chaps that have been out on the virtual-trail for a while, making Dust to Dust one of Roach's most melodic, yet gritty albums to date . . . It sounds like the musicians have strapped on six-shooters in a Sergio Leone spaghetti western."
1998. John Diliberto / ECHOES RADIO
Steve Roach et roger king repeuplent les territoires arrides de l'ouest. Du Western ambiant" un peu à la manière du ry cooder et Brian Eno réunis, un rêve halluciné à la recherche des villes fantômes des USA, des déserts californiens... Idéal pour les "Roads movies "intérieurs!!!!!
2003. Thierry Moreau / France
Conceptually the focus of this collaboration between Steve Roach and Roger King is a historic Western theme. To that effort, the duo incorporates many classic elements derived from the period of the American settling of the Wild West.
Tracks like 'Rattler' and 'Ghost Train' are obvious references to the poisonous bane on the cowboy who forgot to check his boot, or the stable travel route across the rugged plain country.
Other tracks such as 'Gone West' or 'First Sunrise' evoke moods based similar experiences by some of the early American pioneers.
'Dust to Dust' sure brings back memories of my childhood, although in a radically different manner that you might expect. I never spent much time playing Cowboys and Indians, but spent a great deal of time iconizing some of my own self-made heroes in role play gaming. 'Dust to Dust' still holds a common theme with the heroic concepts that I attempted to uphold while I ran screaming through the forest of Michigan brandishing a freshly carved spear to fight off mythical villains.
Jester / Sonicboom