Artifacts (album)

Artifacts
Studio album by Steve Roach
Released	1994
Recorded	1994 at The Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona
Genre	Ambient
Length	77:12
Label	Fortuna Records
Producer	Steve Roach and Eckart Rahn
Steve Roach chronology
Earth Island (1994) Artifacts (1994) The Dreamer Descends (1995)
Music sample
"The Origin of Artifacts"

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
The Herald	(Allaire, New Jersey) favorable
Piero Scaruffi	5/10

Artifacts (1994) is a tribal ambient album by the American artist Steve Roach. This album is a follow up to 1993’s Origins.

There is a poem by Roach's wife Linda Kohanov in the liner notes which is a sequel to her poem in Origins. Like Origins, many of the track titles were derived from this poem.

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Roach

1. ”Groundswell” – 8:15
2. ”Thunder Brother” – 9:29
3. ”The Origin of Artifacts” – 25:46
4. ”Your Own Eyes” – 8:02
5. ”Ancestral Horizon” – 8:27
6. ”Temple of the Frog” – 8:50
7. ”Begin Where I End” – 8:01

Personnel

• Steve Roach (synthesizers, samplers, percussion, didgeridoos, Northern Sonoran dreampipe, frame drums, dumbek, voice, rainstick, clay water pots, ocarina, clay flutes, Indonesian gong, Native American grinding stone, misc.)
• Loren Nerell (Javanese gender on “Temple of the Frog”)
• Suso Saiz (guitar sample food on “The Origins of Artifacts”)

See also

• Ambient music
• Electronic music