Soma (album)

Soma
Studio album by Steve Roach and Robert Rich
Released	1992
Recorded	at The Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona and Soundscape Studio in Mountain View, California
Genre	Ambient
Length	57:11
Label	Hearts of Space Records
Producer	Robert Rich and Steve Roach
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Muze favorable link Piero Scaruffi 6.5/10 link
Steve Roach chronology
Now / Traveler (1992) Soma (1992) The Lost Pieces (1993)
Robert Rich chronology
Geometry (1991) Soma (1992) Propagation (1994)

Soma (1992) is the second collaborative album by the American ambient musicians Steve Roach and Robert Rich. The word soma can be found in the ancient Vedic texts describing a botanical hallucinogen. The same word means “body" in ancient Greek. The music on the album is tribal ambient with dark hallucinatory overtones. The album ends with a gentle, serene piece for electric guitar titled “touch”.

Track listing

1. ”Love Magick” - 7:40
2. ”Nightshade” - 9:07
3. ”Going Inland” - 4:05
4. ”Silk Ridge” - 6:05
5. ”Blood Music” - 8:10
6. ”Soma” - 12:07
7. ”Seduction of the Minotauor” - 5:21
8. ”Touch” - 4:36

Personnel

• Steve Roach (Synthesizers, samplers, drum programing, didjeridu, voice, clay water pots, rainstick, rocks, percussion, Lakota flutes, ocarinas, glurp)
• Robert Rich (synthesizers, samplers, bamboo and clay flutes, steel guitar, drum programing, Udu clay drums, dumbek, ceramic talking drum, Waterphone, kalimba, rainstick, percussion, glurp)
• Linda Kohanov (frame drum)

See also

• Steve Roach
• Robert Rich
• Ambient music
• Electronic music