CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Abstract, Ambient, Tribal
CD in 6-panel digipak.
CROSSING THE TRAIL was recorded and mixed between June 1996 and October 1997.
All tracks composed, arranged & played by Vidna Obmana, except ‘Trail Dwelling’ by Vidna Obmana & Steve Roach and ‘This Splendid Place’ by Vidna Obmana & Jeff Pearce.
Vidna Obmana : electronics, loops, rhythm programming and processing, various percussion, bamboo and wooden flutes, ocarinas, fujaras, recycling and acoustic mutations.
Steve Roach : electron groove creation and harmonic wave on ‘Trial Dwelling’. Source recorded at the Timeroom, Tucson, AZ, June 1997.
Jeff Pearce : guitar and electronic loops on ‘This Splendid Place’. Source recorded at Outer Circle Studio, Linden, IN, March 1996.
Martina Verhoeven : chant on ‘The Esoteric Source’.
Remastered for this edition by Dirk Serries, August 2023.
Originally released on CD in 1998 (Projekt Records, USA).
Photography by Martina Verhoeven / www.martinaverhoeven.com
Design by Maciej Mehring