Body Electric is a collaborative album by ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

 artists Steve Roach and Vir Unis

Vir Unis

Vir Unis is an American ambient-music composer and performer. He is the co-founder of the AtmoWorks label with James Johnson.-Discography:-External links:...

. The music is a unique blend of smooth ambient textures, techno rhythms and various acoustic and natural recordings.

The artwork on the album was created by computer artist Steven Rooke. Instead of a booklet, this CD comes with four cards. The first card contains the front cover and on the reverse side the liner notes while the other three cards feature a panel of artwork on each side.

Track listing

1. "Born of Fire" – 9:12
2. "Pure Expansion" – 10:16
3. "Mind Link" – 7:07
4. "Gene Pool" – 5:40
5. "Synaptic Gap" – 1:56
6. "Homunculus Within" – 4:15
7. "Bloodstreaming" – 3:10
8. "Solar Tribe" – 4:13
9. "The New Dream" – 3:58
10. "Cave of the Heart" – 7:00

Personnel

• Steve Roach – analog and digital
  Digital
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   synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  s, percussion, voice, treatments
• Vir Unis
  Vir Unis
  Vir Unis is an American ambient-music composer and performer. He is the co-founder of the AtmoWorks label with James Johnson.-Discography:-External links:...
  
   – synthesizers, treatments
• Omar Faruk Tekbilek
  Omar Faruk Tekbilek
  Ömer Faruk Tekbilek , also known as Omar Faruk Tekbilek, is a Turkish flautist. He is known for his performances with the ney in a Sufi style...
  
   – ney
  Ney
  The ney is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Middle Eastern music. In some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. It is a very ancient instrument, with depictions of ney players appearing in wall paintings in the Egyptian pyramids and actual neys being found...
  
   (on "Born of Fire")
• Roger King
  Roger King
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   – bass (on "Born of Fire" and "The New Dream"), EBow guitar (on "Born of Fire")
• Linda Kohanov
  Linda Kohanov
  Linda Kohanov is an author, speaker, riding instructor, and horse trainer. Kohanov is best known in the field called "equine facilitated psychotherapy" , and as the author of two books, The Tao of Equus: A Woman's Journey of Healing and Transformation through the Way of the Horse and Riding...
  
  – voices (on "Pure Expansion")