Body Electric (album)

Body Electric (1999) is a collaborative album by ambient artists Steve Roach and Vir Unis. The music is a unique blend of smooth ambient textures, techno rhythms and various acoustic and natural recordings.

Body Electric
Studio album by
Steve Roach and Vir Unis
Released1999
GenreAmbient
Length56:54
LabelProjekt Records
ProducerSteve Roach and Vir Unis
Steve Roach chronology
Dreaming... Now, Then: A Retrospective 1982-1997
(1999)
Body Electric
(1999)
Quiet Music: Complete Edition
(1999)
Vir Unis chronology
Imaginarium
(1998)
Body Electric
(1999)
The Drift Inside
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Alternative Pressfavorable [2]

The artwork on the album was created by computer artist Steven Rooke. Instead of a booklet, this CD comes with four cards. The first card contains the front cover and on the reverse side the liner notes while the other three cards feature a panel of artwork on each side.

Track listing

  1. "Born of Fire" – 9:12
  2. "Pure Expansion" – 10:16
  3. "Mind Link" – 7:07
  4. "Gene Pool" – 5:40
  5. "Synaptic Gap" – 1:56
  6. "Homunculus Within" – 4:15
  7. "Bloodstreaming" – 3:10
  8. "Solar Tribe" – 4:13
  9. "The New Dream" – 3:58
  10. "Cave of the Heart" – 7:00

Personnel

  • Steve Roach – analog and digital synthesizers, percussion, voice, treatments
  • Vir Unis – synthesizers, treatments
  • Omar Faruk Tekbilek – ney (on "Born of Fire")
  • Roger King – bass (on "Born of Fire" and "The New Dream"), EBow guitar (on "Born of Fire")
  • Linda Kohanov – voices (on "Pure Expansion")
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References

  1. Jim Brenholts. "Body Electric". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-01-16.
  2. May 1999


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