Empetus

by Steve Roach

Empetus cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Fortuna
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:56:30
  • Community rating: 3.64/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating as a high-water mark for American electronic sequencing, Roach heavily channels the grand, analog traditions of 1970s German cosmic music. 'Empetus' utilizes rapidly pulsing synthesizer arpeggios to construct an incredibly kinetic, futuristic space-ambient journey that feels both highly structured and boundlessly expansive.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, repetitive, instrumental, space, ambient, synthesizers, shimmering, minimal

Tracklist

  1. Arrival (04:25)
  2. Seeking (05:36)
  3. Conquest (06:08)
  4. Empowerment (04:01)
  5. Twlight Heat (03:15)
  6. Merge (06:24)
  7. Urge (06:25)
  8. Distance is Near (02:42)
  9. The Memory (05:51)
  10. Harmonia Mundi (45:16)
  11. Release (26:27)

Credits

  • Michael Hayden - artwork [front cover neon sculpture "trikha"]
  • William Stewart - lettering
  • Weslie Brown - voice

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