The Desert Inbetween

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The Desert Inbetween
Steve Roach, Brian Parnham, The Desert Inbetween.jpg
Studio album by
Steve Roach and Brian Parnham
ReleasedJanuary 11, 2011
StudioThe Floating Point Studio and The Timeroom
Genre Ambient
Length66:45
Label Projekt
Producer Steve Roach and Brian Parnham
Steve Roach chronology
Nightbloom
(2010)
The Desert Inbetween
(2011)
Immersion Five - Circadian Rhythms
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Guts of DarknessStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2] (in French)
Hypnagoguefavorable [3]
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The Desert Inbetween is the collaborative album by ambient musicians Steve Roach and Brian Parnham, [1] [5] containing Southwest surroundings.

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Reception

AllMusic rated the album a 3.5 of 5, stating "The Desert Inbetween is almost a natural outgrowth of their individual approaches".

Hypnagogue highly rated the album, saying "It is a richly dimensional concatenation of purposeful sounds that ricochet in rhythm around each other to create the space as they go, every one of them integral".

Track listing

All tracks are written by Steve Roach and Brian Parnham

No.TitleLength
1."Opening Sky"11:03
2."Ancestral Passage"9:19
3."Serpent Gulch"11:11
4."Somewhere Between"7:13
5."Spirit Passage"4:14
6."Return to the Underground"17:14
7."When the Raven Flies"6:31

Personnel

Adapted from Discogs [6]

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References

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