Search - Steve Roach :: Lost Pieces

A collection of unreleased or non-album tracks Roach composed between 1988 and 1992 (a particularly fruitful period), Lost Pieces covers a lot of terrain. The Tangerine Dream-ish "After the Dream" was written in the wake of Roach's seminal Dreamtime Return; the drum-box-driven "Mojave: At the Tree" suggests Roach's collaborations with Kevin Braheny, composed between the Western Spaces and Desert Solitaire albums; and "Red Shore" is the kind of gorgeous, haunting soundscape heard later on Well of Souls. The closing "Closer" is an uncharacteristic bit of musique concrète, a solemn, experimental collage of grunting rhythm, slithering noise, and reverberance. Though not as cohesive as The Magnificent Void or World's Edge, The Lost Pieces provides Roach-heads with an extra outlet for their tribal-ambient obsessions, with a few interesting revelations. --James Rotondi