World's Edge

Infobox Album
Name = World's Edge
Type = Album
Longtype =
Artist = Steve Roach


Released = June 8, 1992
Recorded = at The Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona
Genre = Ambient
Length = 127:04
Label = Fortuna Records
Producer = Steve Roach and Ethan Edgecombe
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4z821v0jzzxa~T2 link]
*Piero Scaruffi 8/10 [http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/roach.html link]
Last album = "Forgotten Gods" (1992)
This album = "World's Edge" (1992)
Next album = "Now / Traveler" (1992)

"World’s Edge" (1992) is an album by the American ambient musician Steve Roach. The style of this album is tribal ambient, with a more organic, rhythmic sound than his previous albums. The second disc contains one 60 minute track called “To the Threshold of Silence”.

Track listing

Disc one

#”World’s Edge” (9:44)
#”The Call” (3:29)
#”Steel and Bone” (3:39)
#”Undershadow” (8:26)
#”When Souls Roam” (6:51)
#”Beat of Desire” (7:34)
#”Glimpse” (3:05)
#”Thunderground” (10:25)
#”Falling, Flying, Dreaming” (6:13)
#”Drift” (7:38)

Disc two

#”To the Threshold of Silence” (60:00)

Personnel

*Steve Roach (analog and digital synthesizers, sequencers, samplers, Didjeridu, sampled and hand played percussion, frame drum, ceramic dumbek, Lakota plains flute, Tibetan ritual bell)
*Guy Thouin (tablas and percussion on “The Call”)
*Robin Horn (cymbal on “Thunderground”, Chinese Gong sample food)
*Robert Rich (steel guitar on “To the Threshold of Silence”)
*Florence Riggs (harmonic singing sample food)

ee also

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