content: This album is the culmination of Roach's tribal-influenced explorations beginning with Dreamtime Return and continuing with his two collaborations with Robert Rich and Suspended Memories. The power of Origins reaches an almost psychotic-like intensity, best realized on "Artifacts" and "Connected Underground", with a blistering digeridoo and frame drum interlude sequing the two tracks. Other recordings by like-minded artists like Stephen Kent and TUU are pale by comparison--it gets my vote as one of the best contemporary instrumental releases of the decade, maybe of all time--Roach's truly eerie atmospheres have never sounded eerier than they do here.