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{{Infobox album
| name       = Halcyon Days
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Steve Roach (musician)|Steve Roach]], [[Stephen Kent (musician)|Stephen Kent]] and [[Kenneth Newby]]
| cover      = Halcyon_Days.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1996
| recorded   = December 17–28, 1995 at The Timeroom in [[Tucson, Arizona]]
| venue      =
| studio     =
| genre      = [[Ambient music|Ambient]], [[world fusion]], [[space music]]<ref name=Allmusic/>
| length     = 63:20
| label      = Fathom
| producer   = [[Steve Roach (musician)|Steve Roach]], [[Stephen Kent (musician)|Stephen Kent]] and [[Kenneth Newby]]
| chronology = [[Steve Roach (musician)|Steve Roach]]
| prev_title = The Magnificent Void
| prev_year  = 1996
| next_title = [[Cavern of Sirens]]
| next_year  = 1997
| misc       = {{Extra chronology
 | artist     = [[Stephen Kent (musician)|Stephen Kent]]
 | type       = studio
 | prev_title = Landing
 | prev_year  = 1994
 | title      = Halcyon Days
 | year       = 1996
 | next_title = Family Tree
 | next_year  = 1997
}}
  {{Extra chronology
 | artist     = [[Kenneth Newby]]
 | type       = studio
 | prev_title = [[Ecology of Souls]]
 | prev_year  = 1994
 | title      = Halcyon Days
 | year       = 1996
 | next_title = [[Sirens (Kenneth Newby)|Sirens]]
 | next_year  = 1997
}}
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
| rev1Score=  {{Rating|4|5}} <ref name=Allmusic>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r242468}}</ref>
| rev2 = Alternate Music Press
| rev2Score=  favorable <ref>[http://www.alternatemusicpress.com/reviews/review1.7.html 1997]</ref>

}}
'''''Halcyon Days''''' is a collaborative album by the [[Ambient music|ambient]] musicians [[Steve Roach (musician)|Steve Roach]], [[Stephen Kent (musician)|Stephen Kent]] and [[Kenneth Newby]]. This album was recorded in the period from December 17 to 28, 1995. At that time most of the United States were experiencing severe winter weather, but the [[Sonoran Desert]] region, where this album was recorded, was enjoying a period temperate calm and clear skies.

While recording this album, Kent and Newby, along with their families, stayed at Roach's home in [[Tucson]]. While there, the group enjoyed casual walks through the surrounding desert, serving as inspiration for their daily creative explorations in the studio.

Halcyon is the ancient Greek name for a bird now believed to be the [[kingfisher]]. In Greek Mythology [[Alcyone]] was a queen whose husband Ceyx was killed when his ship was lost at sea. She was overcome by grief and tried to drown herself, but the gods took pity on her and transformed her into a kingfisher. In the myth, the seas are calmed during a two-week period surrounding the winter solstice, when Alcyon's descendants lay their eggs on the still water. This period is known as the Halcyon Days.

The music has a predominantly acoustic quality although much of the percussion and textures are rendered by computer algorithms designed by Kenneth Newby (Halcyon Days, Calyx Revelation, Rainfrog Dreaming) or programmed by Steve Roach (First Day, Kingfisher Flight), with [[didgeridoo]] and flute. Sampled electroacoustic textures are used throughout with only limited use of [[synthesizer]]s. On some tracks, Stephen Kent plays a [[cello]], in a fashion that resembles the sintir, a [[Morocco|Moroccan]] plucked stringed instrument with a sound resembling an [[upright bass]]. This gives these tracks slight jazz overtones.

==Track listing==
#”Halcyon Days” (10:20)
#”First Day” (9:22)
#”Rainfrog Dreaming” (7:56)
#”Snake Brothers” (5:52)
#”Slow Walk at Stone Wash” (9:22)
#”Riding the Atlas” (5:28)
#”Calyx Revelation” (8:00)
#”Kingfisher Flight” (7:00)

==Personnel==
*[[Steve Roach (musician)|Steve Roach]] (analog and digital [[synthesizer]]s, percussion, [[ocarina]]s, [[didgeridoo]] on “Snake Brothers” and “Riding the Atlas”)
*[[Stephen Kent (musician)|Stephen Kent]] ([[didgeridoo]]s, percussion, [[cello]], [[ocarina]]s)
*[[Kenneth Newby]] (treatments, [[Sampler (musical instrument)|samplers]], algorithmic drummers and atmospheres, suling, percussion, [[Piri (instrument)|p’iri]], [[bonang]])

==See also==
*[[Ambient music]]
*[[Electronic music]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.valley-entertainment.com/products/steve-roach-and-stephen-kent-and-kenneth-newby-halcyon-days ''Halcyon Days''] at [[Hearts of Space Records]]

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[[Category:Kenneth Newby albums]]
[[Category:Hearts of Space Records albums]]
[[Category:Space music albums]]
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