Artifacts (album)
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{{Infobox Album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
| Name = Artifacts
| Type = studio
| Longtype =
| Artist = [[Steve Roach]]
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| 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]]