Jazz Articles about Steve Roach and "Vir Unis"

Steve Roach and "Vir Unis": Body Electric

by AAJ Staff
December 1, 2000

Roach fans, this is your wake-up call! After the calm ambient depths of SLOW HEAT and the Western driftwood of DUST TO DUST , BODY ELECTRIC bursts into the soundscape with a driving exultant rush. Not since 1997's ON THIS PLANET has Roach, along with his excellent collaborator “Vir Unis" and other fine sidemen, produced such compelling, percussion-driven work. This one's got it all: electronic growls, clangs, drums and rattles, industrial noise, mystical hoots, Robert Rich-like “glurp," sounding stones and ...