Product Description

After two years pushing the creative edges, Tales from the Ultra Tribe emerges as a fire-breathing life form. The deep trance-shamanic-atmospheric collaboration between Steve Roach and Byron Metcalf evokes the primordial caverns and aeon-blasted landscapes of their groundbreaking the Serpent's Lair (2000).

Review

''With a multi-dimensional trance-groove trajectory, the sound is a tribal-electronic well of visionary power, mystery and visceral awe that envelops the listener.'' --ambientblog.net

Tales from the Ultra tribe, born as a hypothetical continuation of The Serpent's Lair, begins with "Setting Forth", percussions for a rite that seems to accept today's technology and relentless beat with wind and dust dispersed, in "Noble Direction" Roach invents a beautiful drone fading continuously absorbed by the obsessive rhythmic structure, "Midnight Migration" includes inside electronic bits, while "Magma Clan" is an updated version of the puzzles rhythmic of Hassel. The tribal frenzy of "Road from Here" is tempered by the combination -ethereal-technology- offered by "Fire Sky Portal"; the shamanic breath is felt in "Return of the Dragon Bone Tribe" which is the last ritual before the final and mysterious "In the Safety of Travel", final act of a collection of songs that unlike the last production of the two American musicians, indicates a less technical way to communicate, more sensitive, a declaration of independence of spirit, the survival of the natural values and their sharing with the world's future totally controlled by the input of computers. -Ettore G. --Percorsi Musicali:

Steve Roach continua ad arricchire la sua già lastricata carriera di episodi splendidi, incurante dell'ingiustificata indifferenza di molta critica musicale. Tales From The Ultra Tribe è l'ennesima risposta lanciata involontariamente a coloro che, per errata convinzione o timore nell'affrontare un'opera massiccia come la sua, si rifugiano nel biasimare per partito preso ogni sua uscita. Il compimento finale, a tredici anni dal primo incontro, del sodalizio con Byron Metcalf non è che l'ennesima vittoria di un musicista dotato di una creatività inesauribile. E che sembra doverne avere ancora per molto. Rating: 7.5 (Very Good) -Matteo Meda --Ondarock, Italy