World's Edge

World's Edge
Studio album by Steve Roach
Released	June 8, 1992
Recorded	at The Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona
Genre	Ambient
Length	127:04
Label	Fortuna Records
Producer	Steve Roach and Ethan Edgecombe
Steve Roach chronology
Forgotten Gods (1992) World's Edge (1992) Now / Traveler (1992)

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World’s Edge (1992) is an album by the American ambient musician Steve Roach. The style of this album is tribal ambient, with a more organic, rhythmic sound than his previous albums. The second disc contains one 60 minute track called “To the Threshold of Silence”.

Track listing

Disc one

1. ”World’s Edge” (9:44)
2. ”The Call” (3:29)
3. ”Steel and Bone” (3:39)
4. ”Undershadow” (8:26)
5. ”When Souls Roam” (6:51)
6. ”Beat of Desire” (7:34)
7. ”Glimpse” (3:05)
8. ”Thunderground” (10:25)
9. ”Falling, Flying, Dreaming” (6:13)
10. ”Drift” (7:38)

Disc two

1. ”To the Threshold of Silence” (60:00)

Personnel

• Steve Roach (analog and digital synthesizers, sequencers, samplers, Didjeridu, sampled and hand played percussion, frame drum, ceramic dumbek, Lakota plains flute, Tibetan ritual bell)
• Guy Thouin (tablas and percussion on “The Call”)
• Robin Horn (cymbal on “Thunderground”, Chinese Gong sample food)
• Robert Rich (steel guitar on “To the Threshold of Silence”)
• Florence Riggs (harmonic singing sample food)

Trivia

• There is a printing error on the artwork and disk of this release. It states that track 3, Steel and Bone, is 3:39 in length, but it's actually around 2:37.

References

See also

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