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| The Magnificent Void | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 47 reviews)
Sales Rank: 95972
Category: Music
Artist: Steve Roach
Publisher: Hearts of Space
Studio: Hearts of Space
Manufacturer: Hearts of Space
Label: Hearts of Space
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 025041106221
EAN: 0025041106221
ASIN: B000000X78
Release Date: February 13, 1996
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Between the Gray and the Purple | | • | Void Memory One | | • | Infinite Shore | | • | Cloud of Unknowing | | • | Void Memory Two | | • | Void Memory Three | | • | The Magnificent Void | | • | Atlus |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Departing from the tribal themes that occupied him through most of the 1990s, Roach takes a philosophical leap into Void, directing his endless reverbs and glowering synth programs toward the speck at the center of the universe. Eschewing the indigenous drums and didgeridoos of his Dreamtime Return-era work, pieces like "Between the Gray and the Purple" could as easily be the soundtrack to a psychological thriller as a rumination on infinity. "Void Memory One" refracts sheets of pure frequency across a pitch-black galaxy; "Cloud of Unknowing" taps the elements in a maelstrom of cosmic wind and solar fire. What--too much imagistic hyperbole for you? Roach invites such musings, if only because he carries you down those dark corridors so convincingly. Sequenced as one continuous piece, Void is an astral-gothic collage of fear, transcendence, and weightlessness; a high-water mark of space music; and one of Roach's finest hours. --James Rotondi
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
 This Cd Is Perfect.......UGH!!! November 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
.....when you've had guests over for the evening & they've started to stay past their welcome.......all the booze has been drunk......the conversation has dried up.......the clock is about to reach Midnight.......but they WON'T leave......turn the topic of conversation around to "experimental" music & throw on Steve Roach's "The Magnificent Void". I guarantee that they'll be grabbing their coats & heading towards the door after 5 minutes of listening to this particular cd!
This one is a big zero. It has all the charm of a diesel truck engine idleling outside your window...... Sorry Steve, but I guess you can't hit a home run all the time!
 Steve Roach and Jade Sol Luna are top of the line! August 15, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
One of the best Ambient cd's to date! Steve Roach and Jade Sol Luna are top of the line!
Weightless Ghosts February 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
With 'The Magnificent Void' Steve Roach achieves a pure mesmerizing state of time suspension. In controlled long undulations supported by the gift of silence the listener is caught breathing with the rhythm. Roach uses a sculpture approach to form sound masses that hover separated yet together animate in slow synchrony. These sound patterns imply volume and are given weightlessness with spaces of ghostly diminuendo. . . This is an unsurpassed masterful recording.
Dramatic Moody Space Trip October 21, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Out of all the Steve Roach albums I have (about a dozen) this one is the most moody. It is somewhat ominous and intimidating. But do not pass this up because you scare easy. Take the journey Steve Roach has plotted for us this time around. This type of music can be called dark ambient, and is best enjoyed with high-end speakers or headphones. This album is not as relaxing as some of his other albums, so if you are in the market for that, don't get this. As someone else said, this is for "active listening". Pretty dark eerie stuff, which is perfect if you are in the mood for that sort of thing.
One of the best July 13, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you enjoyed the star ride in "2001" A Space Odyssey," you are going to love this one. This is very dramatic, dark, ambient. Think of it as an hour long ride through a black hole, put on your headphones, and buckle your seat belts. Not for relaxing. This is for active listening. Sci-fi ambient journey. Excellent.
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