Artifacts (album) 910434 224456840 2008-07-08T22:38:54Z J Milburn Bot 7423137 All Music Guide has now been rebranded to Allmusic {{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums --> | Name = Artifacts | Type = studio | Longtype = | Artist = [[Steve Roach]] <!-- Commented out because image was deleted: | Cover = Steve_Roach_Artifacts.jpg --> | Released = [[1994]] | Recorded = [[1994]] at The Timeroom in [[Tucson, Arizona]] | Genre = [[Ambient music|Ambient]] | Length = 77:12 | Label = [[Fortuna Records]] | Producer = [[Steve Roach]] and Eckart Rahn | Reviews = *[[Allmusic]] {{Rating-5|4}} [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:it2uakjkhm3v link] *''The Herald'' (Allaire, New Jersey) favorable [http://www.steveroach.com/Press/review.php?id=7 August 1995] *[[Piero Scaruffi]] 5/10 [http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/roach.html link] | Last album = ''[[Earth Island]]''<br/>(1994) | This album = '''''Artifacts'''''<br/>(1994) | Next album = ''[[The Dreamer Descends]]''<br/>(1995) }} '''''Artifacts''''' (1994) is a tribal [[Ambient music|ambient]] album by the American artist [[Steve Roach]]. This album is a follow up to 1993’s ''[[Origins (Steve Roach)|Origins]]''. There is a poem by Linda Kohanov in the liner notes which is a sequel to her poem in Origins. Like Origins, many of the track titles were derived from this poem. ==Track listing== #”Groundswell” (8:15) #”Thunder Brother” (9:29) #”The Origin of Artifacts” (25:46) #”Your Own Eyes” (8:02) #”Ancestral Horizon” (8:27) #”Temple of the Frog” (8:50) #”Begin Where I End” (8:01) ==Personnel== *[[Steve Roach]] ([[synthesizer]]s, [[sampler (musical instrument)|samplers]], percussion, [[didgeridoo]]s, Northern [[Sonoran Desert|Sonoran]] dreampipe, frame drums, [[dumbek]], voice, [[rainstick]], clay water pots, ocarina, clay flutes, [[Indonesia]]n [[gong]], [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] grinding stone, misc.) *[[Loren Nerell]] ([[Java (island)|Javanese]] [[gender (music)|gender]] on “Temple of the Frog”) *Suso Saiz (guitar sample food on “The Origins of Artifacts”) ==See also== *[[Steve Roach]] *[[Ambient music]] *[[Electronic music]] [[Category:1994 albums]] [[Category:Steve Roach albums]]