Early Man (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Early Man
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Steve Roach


Released = 2000
Recorded = 1999-2000 at The Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona
Genre = Ambient
Length = 143:11
Label = Manifold
Producer = Steve Roach
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:tn4uak5k0m3n link]
*"Alternative Press" favorable [http://www.steveroach.com/Press/review.php?id=64 link]
*Piero Scaruffi 6.5/10 [http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/roach.html link]
Last album = "Vine ~ Bark & Spore" (2000)
This album = "Early Man" (2000)
Next album = "Circles & Artifacts" (2000)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Alternate cover
Type = studio


Lower caption = 2001 reissue.

"Early Man" (2000) is an album by the American ambient musician Steve Roach. It was originally released as a limited edition CD in a specially designed package made with two slabs of gray slate. It was then rereleased in 2001 with a second disc called “Early Man Decomposed”. The “decomposed” version contains remixed and rearranged versions of the original source material as well as some newly recorded material.

The music consists of droning electronic textures and various treated sound sources to create a complicated, primeval atmospheres.

Track listing

Disc one: “Early Man”

#”Early Dawn” – 11:58
#”Early Man” – 25:28
#”Begins Looking Skyward” – 6:33
#”Walking Upright” – 11:28
#”Hunting & Gathering” – 12:33
#”Flow Stone” – 5:42

Disc two: “Early Man Decomposed”

#”Slow Dissolve” – 6:33
#”Walking Upright II” – 8:49
#”Fossil and Fern” – 9:49
#”Mastodon” – 4:58
#”Elemental” – 11:33
#”Late Dawn” – 10:39
#”Timeline” – 5:38
#”Carbondate” – 7:56
#”Below Always” – 4:30

ee also

*Steve Roach
*Ambient music
*Electronic music