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Love Magick 07:40
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Nightshade 09:07
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Going Inland 04:02
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Silk Ridge 06:08
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Blood Music 07:55
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SoMa 12:22
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Touch 04:36

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Hallucinogenic master work from the Roach - Rich team. The evolution of "somadelic" music continues at a high level. It's all here, tribal grooves, organic sound-worlds, rich harmonic formations and breathy melodic flutes blend effortlessly.
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The mystic Soma-plant symbolizes that element behind all sense-activities and their enjoyments which yields the divine essence." SoMA, the album celebrates creative activity, "...the principle of bliss...Oh sing a song, a song of praise to the clear and swiftly flowing Drop of crystal with a thousand eyes -Rig Veda IX.60.1, Hymn of Purification

The word soma appears over 3000 years ago in the Indian Vedic scriptures as the divine nectara drug/food with powerful physical, mental, and spiritual properties. According to one commentator, Soma is "...the principle of bliss...the essence, in sense-objects and sense-experiences, in the plants and growths of the earth-nature. The mystic Soma-plant symbolizes that element behind all sense-activities and their enjoyments which yields the divine essence." For the classical Greeks, soma meant 'body' and is the root of English words like somatic. (Soma also appeared infamously in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World as the quasi-narcotic pleasure drug which kept the masses quiescent.)

"We wanted this music to feel primordial, not technological," says Robert Rich, "...to stimulate the body as means of joining the physical, mental, and spiritual in a journey of almost psychedelic intensity."

By turns earthy, danceable, sensuous, erotic, psychoactive, and mystical, SoMA's heady brew of organic percussion instruments, pulsing heartbeat rhythms, airy ethnic flutes, keening slide guitars, and dense synthesized ambiences might well be labeled "Terratronic." With SoMA, Steve Roach and Robert Rich have taken another powerful step on the road to reinventing contemporary music as a shamanic practice.

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released August 20, 1990

Produced by Robert Rich and Steve Roach
Composed, performed and recorded by Steve Roach and
Robert Rich at The Timeroom, Tucson, AZ, and Soundscape Studio,
Mountain View, CA. Analog + midi recording, mixed to DAT at the Timeroan.
All music Copyright © 1992 Soundquest Music/BMI and Amoeba Muse SML
Mastered by Stephen Hill & Robert Rich at Hearts of Space Studio, San Francisco

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Launched in 1984, this record label was created as an extension of the weekly syndicated radio show Hearts of Space. Centered around contemplative music, the label features music from the ambient, new age, electronic, world, Celtic, classical, and experimental genres. ... more

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