Truth & Beauty: The Lost Pieces Volume Two (1999) is an album by the American 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 :...

 musician Steve Roach. Like the first Lost Pieces

The Lost Pieces

The Lost Pieces is an album by the American ambient musician Steve Roach. It is a collection of pieces composed between 1988 and 1992 that have either been lost and temporally forgotten in Steve Roach’s personal archive of tapes or released on limited edition, multi artist compilations.The album...

, this album is a collection of pieces that were either temporally lost in Steve Roach’s archive of recording or released on limited edition, multi artist compilations.

The first seven tracks are tribal ambient with a more conventionally structured and straightforward approach than most of Roach’s tribal projects. Three of the tracks were recorded while Steve Roach was a member of the trio Suspended Memories. “Earthman” and “Fate Awaits” were recorded with Spanish electric guitarist and Suspended Memories collaborator Suso Saiz.

The last three tracks are more atmospheric and experimental. “The Unreachable Place (Again)” has a dark mysterious atmosphere punctuated by isolated piano chords. “The Unbroken Promise” is a slow pulsating piece with recorded natural ambience similar to Slow Heat

Slow Heat

Slow Heat is an album by the American ambient musician Steve Roach. It contains one 71-minute track composed for continuous playback.The concept of the album is based on a phenomenon that occurs in the desert during the hottest part of the day...

. “This and the Other” is a rich, expansive atmosphere punctuated by sparse, random notes giving it a surrealist

Surrealism

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 atmosphere.

Track listing

1. ”Aftermath” – 9:11

   (Originally released on the Spanish edition of Stormwarning, 1992.)

2. ”The Majestic Void” – 5:36

   (Originally released on Klem Electronische Muziek 1994, 1994.)

3. ”Fall of Moai
   Moai
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   ” – 1:53

   (Recorded in 1993, Earth Island era. Previously unreleased.)

4. ”Earthman” – 9:44

   (With Suso Saiz. Same as track 3)

5. ”Fate Awaits” – 4:22

   (Same as track 4)

6. ”Beyond the Blood” – 5:15

   (Recorded in 1994, Artifacts era. Additional voices added in 1998. Previously unreleased.)

7. ”Before the Sacrifice” – 6:54

   (Originally released on Twilight Earth, 1994.)

8. ”The Unreachable Place (Again)” – 9:38

   (Recorded in 1987, Dreamtime Return

   Dreamtime Return

   Dreamtime Return is a double album, based on Australian Aboriginal culture and the concept of the Dreamtime, by the American ambient musician Steve Roach. Roach had already began composing this album when by chance he received a letter from writer/photographer David Stahl...

   
   era. Previously unreleased.)

9. ”The Unbroken Promise” – 7:51

   (Originally released on The Promises of Silence, 1993.)

10. ”This and the Other” – 11:15

    (Originally released on Soundscape Gallery Series One, 1996.)