Description
- Wicked Dream [18:41]
- Fever Pulse [10:34]
![MP3 soundclip of Fever pulse [3:00]](/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/m3u.gif)
- Tantra Mantra [29:36]
- Moved Beyond [14:30]
With Patrick O’Hearn
Steve Roach – Fever dreams
€ 15,49
Released: 2004 By Projekt
1 in stock
Additional information
| Weight | 105 g |
|---|---|
| Medium | CD |
| Package | Jewel Case |
Loren Bacon –
I’ve read on-line that this is something like Roach‘s 54th album in the past quarter of a century. Now that’s one amazing catalog, to say the least. However, the man is not content to rest on his laurels and has given us one sensual exotic sonic adventure with this release.
The mood is set with the opening track, Wicked Dream, as Roach‘s drifting loops and guitar washes are met with Patrick O’Hearn (given co-writing credit on this tune) on bass, putting down a groove that just can’t be denied. The music pulls you in and you suddenly find yourself in a steamy jungle with a shaman handing you a cup of some dark brew. Then the fun really begins! This song reminds one of some of the Laswell / Namlook collaborations (which is a very good thing, in my book).
Bass (and it’s link to the groove) seems very dominant throughout the recording, with two musicians on that instrument in addition to Roach. The complex percussion, however, comes in a close second in terms of dominance, with a lot of tribal sounds from acoustic percussion as well as electronic rhythms.
Byron Metcalf, percussionist extraordinaire, appears again with Roach on two of these tracks. The duo have worked together on several of each other’s solo albums, and it is a great blending of talent. Metcalf puts down some marvelous frame drum work on Tantra Mantra, the half an hour opus on this CD.
The bewitching cover represents the music well in that it is a collage of temple ruins, mountain heights, and swirling mysteries.
This is the first of a trilogy of related recordings set to come out this year, and I can hardly wait to hear the next phase.
2004. Loren Bacon
Gary Andrews –
Coming hot on the heels of Steves recent collaboration Spirit Dome” with Belgian musician Vidna Obmana
Mark Morton –
Steve Roach is riding a hot steak of late and this smoking session just adds to the temperature. Fans of his tribal work will especially want to snatch this up, as it represents the first one of these he’s done for a while and is uniformly excellent throughout. While Fever Dreams is not typical” tribal or even typical Roach