The Desert Inbetween

The Desert Inbetween
Studio album by Steve Roach and Brian Parnham
Released	January 11, 2011
Studios	The Floating Point Studio and The Timeroom
Genre	Ambient
Length	66:45
Label	Projekt
Producers	Steve Roach and Brian Parnham
Steve Roach chronology
Nightbloom (2010) The Desert Inbetween (2011) Immersion Five - Circadian Rhythms (2011)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Guts of Darkness	(in French)
Hypnagogue	favorable
Musique Machine

The Desert Inbetween is the collaborative album by ambient musicians Steve Roach and Brian Parnham, containing Southwest surroundings.

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.	Title	Length
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

• Michał Karcz – cover images
• Sam Rosenthal – graphic design
• Steve Roach – composer, arranger, recorder, producer, mastering, electric guitar, synthesizer, electronics, waterphone, sounds, ocarina, percussion
• Brian Parnham – composer, arranger, recorder, producer, synthesizer, didgeridoo, udu, shaker, sounds, engineer, bass guitar, percussion, other trace elements

External links

• The Desert Inbetween at Bandcamp
• The Desert Inbetween at Discogs