Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces

Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces
Studio album by Steve Roach
Released	2003
Recorded	at The Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona
Genre	Ambient
Length	295:11
Label	Projekt Records
Producer	Steve Roach
Steve Roach chronology
All is Now (2002) Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (2003) Space and Time: An Introduction to the Soundworlds of Steve Roach (2003)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Echoes	favorable [2]
Piero Scaruffi	6/10 [3]

Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (2003) is a four disc album by the American ambient musician Steve Roach. The music consists mostly of meditative, pure electronic textures similar to The Magnificent Void. Disc four contains a 73 minute track titled “Piece of Infinity”.

This album is also available in two 2-disc volumes.

Track listing

Disc one: “Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces”

1. ”Palace of Nectar” – 14:15
2. ”Oracle” – 20:06
3. ”Within the Mystic” – 15:52
4. ”Presence” – 11:47
5. ”Vortex Ring” – 11:51

Disc two: “Labyrinth”

1. ”Wren and Raven” – 14:49
2. ”The Otherworld” – 4:48
3. ”Wonderworld” – 9:07
4. ”Threshold” – 2:20
5. ”Dream Body” – 11:12
6. ”Slowly Dissolve” – 4:15
7. ”Womb of Night” – 2:42
8. ”Soulwave” – 11:00
9. ”Wordless” – 4:06
10. ”Nameless” – 9:29

Disc three: “Recent Future”

1. ”Open Heart” – 4:38
2. ”Turn to Light” – 9:19
3. ”Shift the Dimension” – 3:46
4. ”This Moment Is a Memory” – 5:44
5. ”This Moment Is Another Memory” – 4:32
6. ”Slightly Below” – 2:28
7. ”Essence of Phaedra” – 2:45
8. ”Left Perfectly Alone” – 2:29
9. ”A Subtle Body Current” – 5:15
10. ”Personal Nature” – 10:36
11. ”Grounding Place” – 7:48
12. ”Turning Back” – 3:38
13. ”The Spiral of Time’s Fire Burns On” – 10:52

Disc four: “Piece of Infinity”

1. ”Piece of Infinity” – 73:49

References

1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r643985
2. ^ http://www.steveroach.com/Press/review.php?id=289 June 2003
3. ^ http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/roach.html

See also

• Steve Roach
• Ambient music
• Electronic music