1992 Soma.nfo
Soma
Steve Roach and Robert Rich
Audio CD (December 1, 1993)
Label: Hearts of Space
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Like the wild mushrooms that fungus enthusiast Robert Rich turns into gourmet
dishes, the pieces on Soma seem to emanate directly from the ground, without
belonging to any species hitherto defined. New Age? Nah. Ambient? Not exactly.
Fungoid tribal trance? Maybe. Rich, the drone provocateur who invented the
"sleep concert" in the early '80s, and Roach, proto-ambient pioneer whose
Dreamtime Return remains a classic of organic New Age, distill a potent nectar
of heartbeat-paced percussion--including rain sticks, clay water pots, kalimbas,
and sequenced drums--and reverberant flutes, didgeridoos, and canyon-sized
synthesizers. More rhythmically active than either the Roach-Vidna Obmana duet
Well of Souls or early Roach electronica like Traveller, Soma--named for the
Vedic potion said to deliver the drinker to God--is a Southwest vision quest
that suggests Terence McKenna's psilocybin-mushroom theories: a connection to
the very soul of the earth through ethno-botanical ingestion. Bottoms up...
--James Rotondi
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