Soma (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Soma
Type = Album
Longtype =
Artist = Steve Roach and Robert Rich


Released = 1992
Recorded = at The Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona and Soundscape Studio in Mountain View, California
Genre = Ambient
Length = 57:11
Label = Hearts of Space Records
Producer = Robert Rich and Steve Roach
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6vmyxd7b8oly link]
*Piero Scaruffi 6.5/10 [http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/roach.html link]
Chronology = Steve Roach
Last album = "Now / Traveler" (1992)
This album = "Soma" (1992)
Next album = "The Lost Pieces" (1993)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Robert Rich
Type = album
Last album = "Geometry" (1991)
This album = "Soma" (1992)
Next album = "Propagation" (1994)

"Soma" (1992) is the second collaborative album by the American ambient musicians Steve Roach and Robert Rich. The word soma can be found in the ancient Vedic texts describing a botanical hallucinogen. The same word means “body" in ancient Greek.

The music on the album is tribal ambient with dark hallucinatory overtones. The album ends with a gentle, serene piece for electric guitar titled “touch”.

Track listing

#”Love Magick” - 7:40
#”Nightshade” - 9:07
#”Going Inland” - 4:05
#”Silk Ridge” - 6:05
#”Blood Music” - 8:10
#”Soma” - 12:07
#”Seduction of the Minotauor” - 5:21
#”Touch” - 4:36

Personnel

*Steve Roach (Synthesizers, samplers, drum programing, didjeridu, voice, clay water pots, rainstick, rocks, percussion, Lakota flutes, ocarinas, glurp)
*Robert Rich (synthesizers, samplers, bamboo and clay flutes, steel guitar, drum programing, Udu clay drums, dumbek, ceramic talking drum, Waterphone, kalimba, rainstick, percussion, glurp)
*Linda Kohanov (frame drum)

ee also

*Steve Roach
*Robert Rich
*Ambient music
*Electronic music