Light Fantastic

Artist: Steve Roach
Label: Hearts of Space
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 025041109420
EAN: 0025041109420
ASIN: B00000K2BM

Release Date: 1999-09-21

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Tracks:

Trip The Light
Breathing The Pulse
The Reflecting Chamber
Touch The Pearl
Realm Of Refraction
The Luminous Return

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Customer Reviews:

Another Perfect Recording.......2006-09-12

Here is another of the rare perfect recordings. Composed right before Steve set up his own Timeroom label, "Light Fantastic" delivers another phenomenal impact of sound and reverberations that create a great sense of vastness without ever using your vision. My favorite track is number four, 'Touch the Pearl' with its glowing, shimmering waveforms that are, intentionally or not, attuned directly to the core of consciousness. It flows for an awesome nine minutes seamlessly into Track 5, 'Realm of Refraction.' Here we have the genius of pure ambience at work, flowing, deliberate and seemingly without beginning or end.

Mr. Roach has no equal in this realm. He is truly a master of his instrumentation that does for the mind what a good diet and exercise program do for the body.

Although I cannot prove it, since I have been listening to Steve Roach's compositions (the first was 'Dreamtime Return,' 1987), my memory and concentration have improved ten fold, as well as my ability to stay focused on one thing. I am more relaxed, rested and attuned to my task at hand, whatever that may be. In other words, whether such positive benefits were intended or not, Steve Roach's music is a therapeutic remedy for mood swings, obsessive/compulsive disorder, insomnia, various forms of stress disorders and who knows what else. If it were not true, I would have told you. After nearly 20 years of being hooked on Roach, I can tell you with all certainty that nearly all of his compositions are not to be missed--essential to deal with and dissipate the petty cares of this world. No way I'm going to let someone with a lesser mind tell me that this is only a mundane, banal recording lacking nothing new. While I'm listening to 'Light Fantastic' the earth seems as small as a dot, and I feel like I have escaped the troubles of this world. I only hate to come back to reality. Some of his other fantastic trips are 'Quiet Music' (1988), 'Solitaire: on Ritual Ground,' 'Western Spaces,' 'Origins' and 'Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces' (disc two). I am really looking forward to my next trek on Steve's upcoming composition, the Immersion series, where there is only one track each disc over 70 minutes long.

Funny, sure doesn't seem like it. Roach's music make an hour seem like a split second. That's what they say when you really enjoy something. A good pair of headphones with bass boost and repeat on sets the stage for the next voyage of consciousness exploration for which there is no other equal to date. A little less I talk, a lot more I listen.

This Is A Beautiful Album!.......2005-08-06

I am very pleased with this album. It sure is something special. I don't like all of Steve Roach's work, but Light Fantastic is fantastic! Great for mind journeys and relaxation.

mirrors.......2005-02-26

Think splendor, radiant gloss, flames of blues, green galaxies, shimmering lightning, if possible, and northern lights, the aurora of tempered hypnogogia. Sheen, dim luster, cracks of ice, scintillating nimbostratus enshrouding the dazzle of white sparks from within, skies that emicate, fires that fly, meteors and sprites and fluoro-luminescent vapors glorifying a spectrum of sheer, colored phosphors, energies that refract, glare, twinkle, glitter and sparkle. This could be space, this could be water, this could be air, but it is a medium veiled in light. Black with light. Bright with light...

(Submersion -CL)

T r i p t h e L i g h t ∂n≈An aural alembic, refining, purifying atoms vibrating, wavelengths shifting, pulsing, expanding. Play this track in fast-forward and one can hear the twisting of sound...

B r e a t h i n g t h e P u l s e(x)≈Mist quickly dissipates into Steve Roach's trademark pitch-dropped, time-expanded instruments of bubbles. More pulses of photons, compressed, scattered, and ebullient with velocity. This is not tribal, this is scientific...

T h e R e f l e c t i o n C h a m b e r hn/µ≈The zing, the rise of crescents over slow effervescence, where rainbows converge, crossmix, coalesce, and melt into the rays of shine, reflecting off atmospheres, spheres, fears...

T o u c h t h e P e a r l ∑(Ω)≈ Here there is no incidence, only the circumvenital, travelling a long arc of brilliance, iridescence, but it is not calming. There is disturbance here, the most difficult track to relax or think to. But there is silence, a separation of the next two tracks, a pair...

(Ascension -CL)

R e a l m o f R e f r a c t i o n sin∆/sinß≈Above all planes, parallel to consciousness, a principle of suspension, flotation. Emotion becomes foam, fizzling and churning, recrudescing into a motif, repeated in these two tracks. This is where we see the atmosphere, the green flash, the haunted glories, pillars, and cool retrorefractions...

T h e L u m i n o u s R e t u r n∞≈Darkest, where one sees the fires of the empyrean, a celestial drift and obvious descension from heights attained. Slower, with less emphasis on tempo, but beaming, defining smooth curves, light strikes, gradiations. Below you, the albedo of your Blue, the cloud of your Silver, diaphanous and glassy. Epic in scope, a virtual tour of optics and air...

Like looking down onto the smooth plane of water, Light Fantastic mirrors what we see looking up.

For physical manifestations, I recommend: http://www.lightspace.org/installations.htm

A fantastic CD.......2003-06-25

This CD waas the beginning of my collection and once I heard it I was hooked. All the songs are flowing and very imaginative and leaves one with daydreams alive. It has become one of my favorites and I listened to it so many times I knew I needed to purchase more so as not to tire of it. Overall I would give this CD a high rating and suggest it to anyone looking for some decent ambient music.

A disappointment.......2002-12-20

This album is much too quick-tempo for my taste. Roach has been known to explore the ambient/space genre and also the tribal side. This disc has great space music backdrop, but the percussions are so fast, it ruins the whole purpose of why I listen to Steve Roach. File this one under Techno music.

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