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Listening to "In the Heat of Venus," you can also see the heat haze wafting sinuously through the air and circling the mountain's edges-a spell woven with kalimbas, woodblock percussion, and synthesizers whose sounds are burned amber-red. "Desert Walkabout" embraces a more elegiac, serene, and almost classical sensibility, shot through with Braheny's ghostly electronic wind-instrument caterwauls, mock-harp spicing, delicate percussives, and Roach's lonesome synth chords. Check your compass at the door, and melt into the horizon.

The awe and picturesque environs of the Southwest have long provided inspiration to writers and painters. What better way to bring out the desolation, expansiveness, and metaphor of the region than via state-of-the-art electronics? Roach, of course, was already investigating the means whereby organica becomes electronica on his classic DREAMTIME RETURN set. Together with fellow synthesist Braheny, Roach again uses his amazing conceptual acumen to bring out the desert's unrevealed secrets.


Innovative Communications (Chameleon Records)

"The Breathing Stone" (Roach) (6:46)
"Desert Walkabout" (Braheny) (7:03)
"A Story from the Rain" (Burmer) (7:08)
"Desert Prayer" (Roach, Braheny) (12:33)
"Across the View" (Burmer) (4:40)
"In the Heat of Venus" (Roach, Brennan) (22:42)
"Western Spaces" (Roach, Braheny, Burmer) (6:07)


Fortuna

"The Breathing Stone" (Roach) (6:46)
"Desert Walkabout" (Braheny) (7:03)
"New Moon at Forbidden Mesa" (Roach, Brennan) (5:40)
"Desert Prayer" (Roach, Braheny) (12:33)
"In the Heat of Venus" (Roach, Brennan) (22:33)
"The Slow Turning" (Roach) (7:40)
"Western Spaces" (Roach, Braheny, Burmer) (6:07)