Tales From The Ultra Tribe, by Steve Roach / Byron Metcalf

Tales From The Ultra Tribe

by Steve Roach / Byron Metcalf

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pileated31 I often re-visit my original CD purchase from 2012. Grateful for the digital offering. Truly remarkable how Steve's soundscapes hold up over time. This one serves up shamanic other-worldly vibes that still feel fresh and innovative today. Great Driving Music for long trips! Favorite track: Midnight Migration.

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	1.	Setting Forth 13:53
	2.	A Noble Direction 09:52
	3.	Midnight Migration 11:04
	4.	The Magma Clan 09:37
	5.	Road From Here 08:24
	6.	Fire Sky Portal 04:13
	7.	Return of the Dragon Bone Tribe 10:40
	8.	In the Safety of Travel 06:11

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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 (Projekt, 2000).

And yet on Tales From the Ultra Tribe, 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 out of the steady pulse, giving the music a passionate intensity. The elements are deftly shaped to a point of complete integration where the final result is transformed into a living breathing body with an electro-organic soul.

As one the original architects of the tribal-ambient genre, Steve Roach's innovations are mapped out on the landmark albums Origins, Artifacts, and Dreamtime Return, along with releases from the Suspended Memories trio and the more recent Fever Dreams series. Similarly, Byron Metcalf’s tribal-shamanic albums Helpers, Guides & Allies, Not Without Risk, The Shaman’s Heart, and A Warning From the Elders, serve as a benchmark for deep journey exploration. In the late 90's, Steve teamed up with Byron, and over the span of a dozen years they've created an array of releases that explore and push the outer edges of shamanic-electronic tribalism.

The eight pieces on Tales From the Ultra Tribe are built into a seamless 74-minute deep-journey experience. Adding to the overall impact is a high resolution sound achieved through masterful recording and mixing techniques. With a multi-dimensional trance-groove trajectory, the sound is a tribal-electronic well of experience. A continuous kaleidoscope of visionary power, mystery and visceral awe envelops the listener. The synergistic alchemy of Steve’s and Byron’s work fuses to new levels of audio-induced, mind-expanding music.

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released June 23, 2021

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As a pioneering cornerstone of ambient-atmospheric-electronic music, internationally-renowned artist Steve Roach has dedicated four decades to exploring myriad soundworlds that connect with a timeless source of inspiration.

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discography

Tales From The Ultra Tribe

Jun 2021
The Ancestor Circle

Jun 2021
Quiet Music (35th Anniversary Remastered 3-Hour Collection - 2021)

Apr 2021
AS IT IS

Apr 2021
Temple of the Melting Dawn

Apr 2021
The Gong Prophet

Feb 2021
Phoenix Rising

Feb 2021
INTO THE MAJESTIC

Jan 2021
Remembrance In Waves

Dec 2020
LiveStream 09 26 2020 The Desert Eternal

Nov 2020
TOMORROW

Oct 2020
Timeroom Livestream 8 - 22 - 2020

Sep 2020
Back To Life

Sep 2020
Inanna's Dream

Aug 2020
The Dream Circle 2020 Remastered Edition

Aug 2020
A Soul Ascends

Jul 2020
POV2 : The Case For Square Waves While Searching For Happy Accidents

Jun 2020
Nectar Meditation

May 2020
To The Threshold of Silence - Remastered 2020

Apr 2020
Santa Fe Live - Steve Roach / Rob Thomas

Apr 2020
Journeys to the Infinite

Mar 2020
The Sky Opens

Feb 2020
Quiet Music

Jan 2020
STILLPOINT

Dec 2019
Midnight Moon

Dec 2019
Trance Archeology

Nov 2019
Bloom Ascension

Aug 2019
HelioSphere

Feb 2019
Atmosphere for Dreaming

Dec 2018
Mercurius

Nov 2018
Electron Birth

Aug 2018
Return To The Dreamtime

Aug 2018
Molecules of Motion

May 2018
Slow Heat - 20th Anniversary Remastered Edition

May 2018
Future Flows

Apr 2018
DREAMTIME RETURN (30th Anniversary Remastered Edition)

Mar 2018
Eclipse Mix

Aug 2017
Long Thoughts

Aug 2017
Nostalgia for the Future

Aug 2017
POV

Jul 2017
CORE - Legacy Edition

Jun 2017
Traveler

Jun 2017
THE PASSING

Feb 2017
The Early Years (rarities from the Empetus era)

Jan 2017
Fade To Gray

Dec 2016
Painting In The Dark

Dec 2016
Spiral Revelation

Dec 2016
Shadow Of Time

Aug 2016
This Place To Be

May 2016
immersion : two

Mar 2016
Live in Tucson - 79 min version

Jan 2016
Skeleton - Spiral Passage - Extended Version - Live In Tucson 02-14-15

Jan 2016
Alive In the Vortex

Dec 2015
VORTEX IMMERSION ZONE

Dec 2015
BLOODMOON RISING - NIGHT 1

Sep 2015
BLOODMOON RISING - NIGHT 4

Sep 2015
Bloodmoon Rising Complete 5 hour set

Sep 2015
Etheric Imprints

Jul 2015
KAIROS - The Meeting of Time and Destiny

May 2015
Skeleton Keys

May 2015
The Skeleton Collection - 2005 - 2015 Companion Disc

May 2015
BLOODMOON RISING - NIGHT 3

Apr 2015
Invisible - 70 Min version

Feb 2015
Emotions Revealed

Jan 2015
Invisible - Final Edition

Jan 2015
STRANDS

Oct 2014
BLOODMOON RISING - NIGHT 2

Oct 2014
The Delicate Beyond

Sep 2014
THE DESERT COLLECTION Volume One 2014

Jul 2014
The Delicate Forever

Jul 2014
Light Of Sundays

Dec 2013
At The Edge Of Everything

Dec 2013
Spiral Meditations

Dec 2013
Steve Roach & Jorge Reyes Live in Tucson - Year 2000 - EP release

Sep 2013
LIVE TRANSMISSION - 2 CD Release

Aug 2013
Day Out of TIme

Aug 2013
Possible Planet

Jun 2013
ULTRA IMMERSION CONCERT

Mar 2013
Rasa Dance - The Music Of Connection

Mar 2013
Today

Feb 2013
Soul Tones

Dec 2012
Sense

Dec 2012
Groove Immersion

Nov 2012
Circadian Rhythms - Immersion Five

Apr 2011
Steve Roach Live at SoundQuest Fest

Feb 2011
Sigh Of Ages

Jul 2010
Dream Tracker

Jun 2010
Live at Grace Cathedral

Apr 2010
Destination Beyond

Sep 2009
Afterlight

Jul 2009
Immersion Four

Jun 2009
Arc of Passion

Jul 2008
Landmass

Jun 2008
A Deeper Silence

Feb 2008
immersion : three

Feb 2007
Fever Dreams III

Jan 2007
Storm Surge

Apr 2006
Immersion : One

Feb 2006
Proof Positive

Jan 2006
New Life Dreaming

May 2005
Fever Dreams

Jun 2004
Fever Dreams II

May 2004
Places Beyond - The Lost Pieces Four

Jan 2004
Life Sequence

Jun 2003
Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces - Complete Edition

Mar 2003
Darkest Before Dawn

Dec 2002
All is Now : Steve Roach Live 2002 - Sedona - Portland - Oakland - San Francisco - SFMOMA

Nov 2002
Texture Maps

Feb 2002
Core

Dec 2001
Pure Flow

Feb 2001
Vine, Bark & Spore - Roach - Reyes

Jun 2000
Ascension of Shadows Complete

Dec 1999
Atmospheric Conditions

Dec 1999
Truth & Beauty

Feb 1999
Stormwarning

Jan 1998
Slow Heat

Jan 1998
ARTIFACTS

Jun 1994
ORIGINS

Jun 1993
Worlds Edge - To The Threshold Of Silence

Mar 1992
Structures From Silence (30th Anniversary 3CD Remastered Edition)

Jul 1984
NOW

Feb 1982
Live In Tucson - Pinnacle Moments 02-14-2015

Dec 1981

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