Steve Roach: the dream circle Steve Roach: the dream circle (Timeroom Editions - 1999) You want deep, uninterrupted immersion in a soft, warm, gently undulating pool of sound? You want to be continually surrounded by swirling vapors dappled with faint accents of organic textures? Enter the the dream circle... Steve Roach's 1994 classic, originally limited to 2500 copies, has been recently re-released. Your sighs of appreciation will blend right into the subtle breaths of this cosmically respirating entity. With nary a track break or a drumbeat to impede the everflowing waves, the dream circle spirals in a multi-leveled slow-motion cyclone. This massive funneling of sound covers ground between Roach's more overt synthworks (like Storm Warning) and his grittier, more tribal efforts. As smooth as these sounds are, there's a hint of desert dust in the entrancingly arid winds. Ambient nature sounds (like trickling grains and insectoid chitter) add prescence without distraction, as do phantasmal appearances/disappearances of droning voids of mystery. If you're waiting for "something" to "happen" you may be dissapointed, and most certainly are missing the point. Dive in full-body, -mind and -spirit and let the currents take you where they will... Clocking in at a precise 74 minutes, the dream circle is designed for continual playback for those prolonged audiosubmersions. If it passed you the first time around, Steve Roach's wheel is turning again. Defintely catch this rotation for a 9.1 cycle through atmospheric bliss. And of course, go straight to the source for more info: www.steveroach.com. This review posted February 23, 2000 AmbiEntrance © 2000-1997 by David J Opdyke (except CD cover art, rights retained by original owners).