The first four tracks blend together as one. Heart of the Tempest opens dynamically with a reverberating crack of thunder, from which various levels of floating tones evolve. The atmosphere billows slowly, cloud-like. With another thunderclap, we're into Journey of One , which bustles quickly along on a shifting, somehow watery rhythm. Roach himself intones the long, quasi-tribalistic wails that are heard here.
Softer swells rise and fall while earthy percussion beats out a slower, methodical tattoo.
Another direct segue, and Trilobite is born. The six remaining pieces also fuse into one long work. Void Memory 4 is made of similar, but darker, sounds. Beneath the drones and occasional swoosh, a mid-tempo rhythm quietly dwells until giving way to deep synth waves and interstellar keening. A subtle shift in space alerts us to the fact that we've passed into Cloud Watching with the Toolmaker .