Steve Roach & Byron Metcalf - Tales From The Ultra Tribe (CD)

Release Date: 01/15/13A kaleidoscope of visionary power, mystery and awe explore and push the outer edges of shamanic-electronic tribalism.This deep trance-shamanic-atmospheric collaboration evokes the primordial caverns and aeon-blasted landscapes of their groundbreakingThe Serpent’s Lair(Projekt, 2000). And yet a new sound emerges. It’s a lucid trance-groove experience, a searing combination of acoustic percussion and hyper-dimensional electronic rhythms. The Ultra Tribe are the future primitives: the future-tech foundation wrapped by the organic. It’s no longer clear where the human ends and the machine begins.The elements of this sound are Steve’s complex hybrid-grooves overlaid by Byron’s primal, fluid and organic – yet precise – frame drums and percussion. It’s an atmosphere of shifting soundworlds in which the forms of the Ultra Tribe exist. An alchemy of electronic sequencers, drum machines and percussion locks in the groove, while the human element jumps in and