The Serpent's Lair

The Serpent’s Lair is a two disc collaborative album by the American ambient artists Steve Roach and Byron Metcalf.

In the music, Steve Roach used a technique called Groove Alchemy.

Disc one: “The Serpent’s Lair”

 * 1) ”The Lair” (12:14)
 * 2) ”Rite of Passage” (14:09)
 * 3) ”Shedding the Skin” (5:39)
 * 4) ”Big Medicine” (12:53)
 * 5) ”Future Tribe” (8:30)
 * 6) ”Birthright” (5:59)
 * 7) ”Osmosis”(4:04)
 * 8) ”Egg Chamber Dreaming” (8:53)

Disc two: “Offerings from the Underworld”

 * 1) ”Offering in Waves” (10:55)
 * 2) ”Impending Sense of Calm” (9:03)
 * 3) ”Cave Dwellers” (23:08)
 * 4) ”Primal Passage” (4:47)
 * 5) ”Serpent Clan” (5:02)
 * 6) ”Breathing Heart of the Dragon Mother” (6:50)
 * 7) ”Ochua” (9:26)

Personnel

 * Steve Roach (synthesizers, samplers, percussion, didgeridoo, breath, shakers, ocarinas, voice)
 * Byron Metcalf (percussion, frame drums, djembe, tom-toms, bass drum, clay pots, shakers, rattles, ashiko, rainstick)
 * Vicki Richards (violin)
 * Lena Stevens (voice)
 * Vidna Obmana (guitar)
 * Jeffrey Fayman (djembe)
 * Momodu Kah (djembe)
 * Jorge Reyes (flutes, ocarinas, whistles, percussion, voice)
 * Jim Cole (voices)
 * Vir Unis (synthesizers)