CD  $17.00  ON SALE, $14.00  Combo Pack $24.00 TRANCE SPIRITS (CD) NAUTICAL TWILIGHT (CD) Bandcamp  Trance Spirits 2022 Remastered Edition Steve Roach, Jeffrey Fayman, Robert Fripp, Momodou Kah 2022 Projekt PRO395 (CD) Projekt's remastered edition of 2002's TRANCE SPIRITS returns to a hypnotic world of primal, passionate percussion innerwoven with a tapestry of sonic atmospheres and electronic hybrid grooves. These seven tracks pierce time with the heartbeat pulse of the electronic soul welded to organic drums of skin and wood, a rush of ecstatic spirit-catching rhythms elevating a meditative trance state. Orchestrating a thunderous album of sound, Steve Roach's expansive array of synthetic soundworlds, hybrid groove percussion, and textural guitar-based atmospheres overlays the timbre-rich beauty of Middle Eastern and West African-influenced drumming. Pounding, pulsating percussion from drummers Jeffrey Fayman and Momodou Kah was recorded as a real-time continuum with long-form grooves performed live in the studio. Entranced by their own propulsive spirals, the grooves evolve over the course of the tracks -- it's a complex juggernaut. Later, in The Timeroom, Roach and Fayman shaped those initial recordings with Roach sculpting an overlay of electronics performed in the moment. Augmented on three tracks with subtle guitar tonalities from King Crimson's Robert Fripp, the 74 minutes of music unleash primal forces with an intense undercurrent of rich, transporting rhythms anchoring the body to the energies of the earth and sky.   1.  Taking Flight   10:36   2.  Trance Spirits MP3 16:44   3.  Off Spring   8:10   4.  Seekers   7:20   4.  Seekers   7:20   5.  The Calling   5:47   6.  Year of the Horse MP3 13:34   7.  In The Same Deep Water   11:42

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CD out of stock iTunes  Bandcamp  Trance Spirits Steve Roach, Jeffrey Fayman, Robert Fripp, Momodou Kah 2002 Projekt PRO135 (CD) Reviewed by Hannah M.G. Shapero, Bret Miller, Earwaves Media, Electroambient Space, e|i magazine, MusicTAP, New Age Voice, Outline Magazine, Sonic Curiosity, Under the Volcano TRANCE SPIRITS by Steve Roach, Jeffrey Fayman, Robert Fripp and Momodou Kah represents the next step in genuine tribal ambient soundscapes. This amazing gathering of artists makes a magnificent leap into the future of acoustically-fused electronic music. Five of the seven pieces are driven by a complex juggernaut of authentic African percussion, performed as long-form groove trance pieces by Fayman and Kah. As opposed to just using loops to conjure the desired mood, TRANCE SPIRITS is a real continuum of time, with subtle evolution within the tracks. Entwined with the shamanic / trance-inducing soundworlds created by Roach, and augmented by Fripp on three tracks, the combined effect unleashes the primal forces of nature with a boiling undercurrent of rich, transporting textures.   1.  Taking Flight   10:36   2.  Trance Spirits MP3 16:44   3.  Off Spring   8:10   4.  Seekers   7:20   5.  The Calling   5:47   6.  Year of the Horse MP3 13:34   7.  In The Same Deep Water   11:42