Western Spaces

Western Spaces

Infobox Album
Name = Western Spaces
Type = Album
Longtype =
Artist = Steve Roach, Kevin Braheny and Richard Burmer


Released = 1987
Recorded = at The Timeroom and Kevin Braheny's studio in Los Angeles, California
Genre = Ambient
Length = 68:51
Label = Fortuna Records
Producer = Steve Roach, Chuck Oken, Jr.
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:2laqoarabijm link]
*"Q" favorable [http://www.steveroach.com/Press/review.php?id=173 February 1991]
*Piero Scaruffi 6/10 [http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/roach.html link]
Chronology = Steve Roach
Last album = "Quiet Music 3" (1986)
This album = "Western Spaces" (1987)
Next album = "The Leaving Time" (1988)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Kevin Braheny
Type = album
Last album = "Lullaby for the Hearts of Space" (1986)
This album = "Western Spaces" (1987)
Next album = "Galaxies" (1988) Extra chronology 2
Artist = Richard Burmer
Type = album
Last album = "Bhakti Point" (1987)
This album = "Western Spaces" (1987)
Next album = "On the Third Extreme" (1988) Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = album


Lower caption = Fortuna release.

"Western Spaces" (1987) is a collaborative album by the American ambient musicians Steve Roach and Kevin Braheny. This album is the first of Steve Roach’s many musical tributes to the Southwestern Desert.

On several tracks Kevin Braheny uses his trademark sound created by playing a cello preset on his Steiner EWI (Electronic Woodwind Instrument). This album was originally released on the Innovative Communications label by Chameleon Records as a Steve Roach/Kevin Braheny/Richard Burmer album and was released later the same year on the Fortuna label without Burmer's solo contributions. The Fortuna release features additional tracks not on the IC release and an extended version of "In the Heat of Venus".

The liner notes contain a poem by Linda Kohanov from which many of the song titles and perhaps the album title were derived.

Track listings

Innovative Communications (Chameleon Records)

#”The Breathing Stone” (Roach) (6:46)
#”Desert Walkabout” (Braheny) (7:03)
#”A Story from the Rain” (Burmer) (7:08)
#”Desert Prayer” (Roach, Braheny) (12:33)
#”Across the View” (Burmer) (4:40)
#”In the Heat of Venus” (Roach, Brennan) (22:42)
#”Western Spaces” (Roach, Braheny, Burmer) (6:07)

Fortuna

#"The Breathing Stone" (Roach) (6:46)
#"Desert Walkabout" (Braheny) (7:03)
#"New Moon at Forbidden Mesa" (Roach, Brennan) (5:40)
#"Desert Prayer" (Roach, Braheny) (12:33)
#"In the Heat of Venus" (Roach, Brennan) (22:33)
#"The Slow Turning" (Roach) (7:40)
#"Western Spaces" (Roach, Braheny, Burmer) (6:07)

Personnel

*Steve Roach (Oberheim System with digital drums and Xpander, EMU I, Arp, Casio, Emulator II, Ensoniq ESQ-I)
*Kevin Braheny (Steiner EWI, The Mighty Serge Modular, Oberheim, Ensoniq ESQ-I piano, panpipes, kalimba, bells)
*Thom Brennan (Oberheim Matrix 12 on “New Moon at Forbidden Mesa” and “In the Heat of Venus”)
*Richard Burmer (Emulator II on “Western Spaces”)

ee also

*Steve Roach
*Kevin Braheny
*Thom Brennan [http://www.thombrennan.com]
*Ambient music
*Electronic music


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