World's Edge

by Steve Roach

World's Edge cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 March 1992
  • Label: Fortuna Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 2:05:04
  • Community rating: 3.67/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A sprawling, multi-disc masterwork from the renowned American synthesist, this album brilliantly synthesizes his fascination with expansive deep space drones and earthy, shamanic percussion. The incredibly immersive second disc, 'To the Threshold', is particularly celebrated for its slowly unfurling, profoundly dark ambient isolationism.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, instrumental, rain, ambient, droning, percussive, space, synthesizers

Tracklist

  1. World's Edge (9:49)
  2. The Call (3:33)
  3. Steel and Bone (2:40)
  4. Undershadow (8:29)
  5. When Souls Roam (6:53)
  6. Beat of Desire (7:38)
  7. Glimpse (3:08)
  8. Thunderground (10:30)
  9. Falling, Flying, Dreaming (6:18)
  10. Drift (7:38)
  11. To The Threshold of Silence (58:24)

Credits

  • Ray Tomasso - artwork [front cover handmade paper by]
  • Robin Horn - gong [chinese gong sample food], cymbal
  • Florence Riggs - vocals [harmonic singing sample food]
  • Guy Thouin - composed by [co-composed with], tabla [tablas], percussion
  • Robert Rich - steel guitar

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