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Desert Solitaire

4.7 out of 5 stars 18 customer reviews
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  • Audio CD (January 23, 1992)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Fortuna Records
  • ASIN: B0000007UV
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsYou Can't Lose with Desert Solitaire
By Russell J. Grasso on June 2, 2002
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If you buy only one ambient, atmospheric CD, make it this one. For 13 years, we keep listening to Desert Solitaire. Why? Because the music is as timeless as the desert it represents. There are no words, melodic or rhythmic cliches, or common reference points with music you know, so it remains pristine and unconnected to musical style and fashion. This is pure impression delivered via an electromagnetic medium.
Played at night (which I highly recommend), it is captivating, relaxing and purges the mind of petty concerns, as they are over-ridden by this tranquil reminder of nature's power, vastness and timelessness. There is incredible, powerful visual imagery in this album. For example, track 7, "Shiprock", the impression of a broad-based rock formation is scored as very low rumbling tones, demonstrating the formation's massive base and size; and a constant ominous high tone, representing the dizzying height the formation reaches. Also during this cut, the volume cresendos from start to midpoint and then descresendos to the end, giving us the impression of passing a powerful force from nature.
Just as in the desert, water is scarce on this album - the only hint of moisture is a tingling that we hear while watching the "Cloud of Promise" (track 5) approach and grow from the horizon. The rattlesnakes are on track 6.
It boggles the mind that a collection of impressions so elemental in essence could have been set to music by mere human beings, but yet here it is. This CD is a legal hallucinogen, so use it in moderation.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe mesmerizing allure of the desert captured in music
By Michael Paulsen on July 12, 1999
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If the desert were a siren, these would be her songs. This album -- dedicated to Edward Abbey -- succeeds in capturing the essence of the American desert southwest like few other recordings can. This is a very subtle and silent album that can only be fully appreciated with headphones. The sonic and musical textures evoke the expansive, solitary, peaceful and forboding atmosphere of the desert. Even the ghosts of the native southwest (Hopi, Navajo, Anasazi) come to life on a couple tracks. Anyone with an appreciation for the desert southwest will be enchanted and haunted by these pieces.
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5.0 out of 5 starsSad, Serene, Beautiful.
By RL on May 19, 2002
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There isn't much else to say except Desert Solitaire is exceptionally stand out and brilliant. It is among my favorites, if not the favorite of my electronic ambient collection. In particular Labyrinth is one of the most beautifully sad pieces I've ever heard. It reminds how therapeutic to the soul solitude and solitary contemplation can be.
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5.0 out of 5 starsSoundtrack to the desert
By Mark on October 5, 2000
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After purchasing this cd about ten years ago, it quickly became one of my favorite cd's to listen to, and continues to be to this day. The pieces presented on "Desert Solitaire" exude a desert feel. If you've always been lured by the desert, here is some inspiring ambient soundscapes to listen to as you fantasize about your journey out west. Steve Roach, Kevin Braheney and Michael Stearns could do no wrong here. The only problem is that once the cd is over, you might regret that you aren't actually out camping under the stars.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe soundtrack to the dark side of paradise.
By Distant Voyageur on January 1, 2008
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There is no review that could do justice to the sounds of Steve Roach's 1989 masterpiece "Desert Solitaire". Though it is actually a collaboration album between Roach, Michael Sterns and Kevin Brahemy, I consider it to be a Roach album. DS is among the best albums that I have by Roach. Considering the vast beauty of "Dreamtime Return" from a year before, "Desert Solitaire" steps out from the shadows of it's predecessor to be a masterpiece all of it's own. The album's title is perfect since it really is like a soundtrack to the beauty as well as the treachery of the deserts of the world but mostly the desert Southwest. I first listened to this album around in late 2007 as a library rental and immediately was grabbed by the music on it. There are no words to do it justice. The album is also a tribute to a novelist named Stephen Abbey who wrote the novels "Desert Solitaire" in the late 1980s and passed away shortly after the album was recorded. It inadvertently became a tribute to Abbey. Some of the tracks on this album are even downright scary in a way that no Halloween or Goth music could even remotely come close to being.

The opener "Flatlands" is the only upbeat track on this album with a very odd switch between being a bright major note and a dark minor note theme with electronic late 1980s New Age drum machine beats and a driving rhythm. It is like the comfort zone that you start at. Everything else afterwards is much calmer but no less ominous. Once the opening sounds of animals introduces us to "Labyrinth", we immediately leave the musical comfort zone of old and enter a whole new world. "Specter" is among the most entrancing songs on this album with a very haunting, almost cosmic atmosphere akin to astronomy in the Desert Southwest.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsStillness and Southwestern Essence
By Paul on February 14, 2014
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Perfect for a trip to the southwestern U.S. without leaving home. Though I do now and have lived and hiked or trekked around the Southwestern desserts most of my life, this album defiantly evokes the presence felt in peaceful solitary being in the various sandstone canyons and desert flatlands in their essence. There are energies in these places that can only be felt here. This album evokes the essence of the areas quite well. Definitely recommended for all Roach fans. Breath in the expanses and magical vibe that is nowhere else you could go or find it!
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1.0 out of 5 starsWrongly Categorized

This CD might be great, but as it was listed as Edward Abbey's BOOK and I bought it for a blind friend to listen to Abbey's words and ideas (and it is NOT that) then, to top it... Read more

Published 13 months ago by Martha Ann Kennedy
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Very Transcendental!

Published 14 months ago by Nick Morgen
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Published 15 months ago by lee warneka
5.0 out of 5 starsThis is Steve's best album. Probably my favorite ambient album he ever...

This is Steve's best album. Probably my favorite ambient album he ever produced. Just buy this one. It's a classic from the late 80's.

Published 18 months ago by Fiji Sunrise
5.0 out of 5 starsI have always loved this

Sometimes, music just speaks to you. It gets into your soul and 'Desert Solitaire' is one of those collections that does it for me. It's quiet beauty in music. Read more

Published on March 7, 2014 by ele b
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent!

Superb ambient music by three of the top space age composers! Truly a musical journey through the desert southwest! Makes me want to visit there again.

Published on February 20, 2014 by BohemianGirl
5.0 out of 5 starsIs and always will be amazing to me

I love the desert and the music takes me back there every time. Soothing music that is interesting, calming and capable of freeing your mind for internal journeys.

Published on December 17, 2013 by Roman E. Johnston
5.0 out of 5 starsa comfort to read

First read it many years ago and the love he has for the desert really comes through. I return again and again to this book for comforting reminders of what the earth has to... Read more

Published on January 10, 2013 by goldie
5.0 out of 5 starsDesert Expression Electronic Impressions of Timeless Landscapes

This release is a companion album to the earlier Western Spaces which featured musician Richard Burmer and Thom Brennan from 1986. Read more

Published on March 6, 2012 by Theo
5.0 out of 5 starsOne Fantastic CD....

One of Steve's best collaborations. Put this on, lean back, close your eyes & one can envision a black & white scene of Monument Valley with John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Slim Pickins &... Read more

Published on October 23, 2008 by Joe Mugsy

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