Steve Roach -- the endlessly meditative thread

I believe it's just an abbreviation of "electronic music", but favoured in the late 80s/90s by artists working in that field of spacey, ambient, Berlin-school, trad electronica (when "synth music" was a genre, rather than a description of most things). You'd hear it used all the time on the Jean Michel Jarre email discussion list I was on in the 90s, which probably puts it in context.

Thanks!

Playing three nights in a row in Tucson starting tonight, live stream via soma.fm, and he's about to start for tonight, so listen in

https://somafm.com/live/

Laying back quite a bit on the front half of this set. It's definitely a space track so far.

90 minutes inn...'oh yes, there are the drums'....

Dreamtime Return reissued:

https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/dreamtime-return-2018-high-resolution-remaster

There's an expanded version of Dreamtime Returns on the way apparently, with new tracks in the same style (as with the deluxe version of Structures From Silence a few years back). Plus a vinyl reissue too.

i recently found 2cd edition of 'quiet music' in a charity shop for £1.
that was a very good day.
had only heard the deep rich sonics of 'ritual ground'by steve roach and elmar schulte before.

I just discovered the album "Invisible", one of his long drone tracks. It stands out because it has some interesting percussion and textures that other works of his like this lack. Similar to that is the last track on "World's Edge". Both are worth checking out!

A fun bit of history

Steve Roach found the mock up of the Structures From Silence cover. This was the first cassette edition he self-released. Quickly it found its way to Stephen Hill @drSpace Hearts of Space @hearts_of_space and then to Ethan Edgecomb at Fortuna Records and the rest is history. pic.twitter.com/QKTIgfNKLR

— Projekt Records (@ProjektRecords) April 9, 2018

i put his new one on while i was writing something and there's almost too much going on for it to function as writing music lol

it's really great too i think https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/molecules-of-motion

i get very overwhelmed by his discography so i've just been going through chronologically lately. structures from silence is incredible, all the 80s stuff is imo

Skeleton Keys, one of his modular records, is available for free with name-your-price today for Halloween:

http://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/skeleton-keys-name-your-price?from=fanpub_nfnb_merch

reallly loving mercurius today https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/mercurius

So many good releases this year, and now this news!

https://steveroachexclusive.bandcamp.com/subscribe

So excited about this. Subscribed!

All three of these initial ones in the service are really quite good, even (or especially) for two of them being outtakes or early/alternate versions of later albums.

a timely revive. one of his tracks is on the Cherry Red box set Third Noise Principle, which I was listening to last week, looks like it's from the Traveler LP, and was one of the tracks that stood out to me so I was going to look into his other stuff. although I think I did initially confuse him with Steve Reich like the first response here

I kinda wonder what the electric bill is at the Timeroom, as it seems the soundworld never stops there? I kinda want to hope he has some type of scifi artisanal solar/geothermal setup getting the 'electricity' from the source Gaia. In this I picture Steve having rolling sequences going all the time in the timeroom and just wandering through while doing laundry, folding towels and every so often going over and twisting a knob or dropping a lever changing the gurgling mood.

Out of the dozens of releases on Spotify with "tacked to the wall of the coffeeshop" level naming/artwork, picked out "Etheric Imprints" to listen to and it is awesome.

Wisdom.

Anyone heard his latest, A Soul Ascends?

I have! It is of course lovely, though I'll need a second listen to lock into what makes it distinctive (which just about all his albums have as a matter of course -- there's always a particular angle or theme he concentrates on release for release).

Just listened to it now, it is indeed lovely. I'm perfectly fine with him plying his subliminal trade ad infinitum.

Yeah I posted "abundance mindset" in the Patricia Taxxon thread, and I meant it, and it applies here too - artificial scarcity is a tactic of capitalism.

His latest released yesterday via the subscription service, Immerse is way, way immersive even for him. (Wonderful of course.). I had some thoughts:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-coping-1-39885119

His new one, Tomorrow, finds him in warm, glowing sequencer mode. It's really making my Friday morning
https://steveroach.bandcamp.com/album/tomorrow

slaying on livestream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePCsPMjFVJo&feature=youtu.be

https://youtu.be/ePCsPMjFVJo

track he just played from the new album Tomorrow is sick, and the cover art for the new one is his first good cover art since Structures From Silence imo

Yeah it's a lovely album and I admit I did a double-take at the cover, just because I thought it might have been some lost 80s reissue. Who knew! Had to miss the livestream but he's going to be putting it on his Bandcamp soon so all good.

immediately bought tomorrow on the strength of the first track, wow

the livestreams are so, so good

he's just the best

"elegant futurism," indeed! I always have time for Steve Roach but he sounds reinvigorated here. Absolutely buying this one. I usually buy his albums on CD, which seems a better format for this music, but I'll admit to being tempted by the vinyl edition this time.

have to get up and flip the record is antithetical to my notion of listening to Steve Roach

they practically invented the five-disc changer in anticipation of his Blood Moon Rising set.

Inclined to agree. Just pre-ordered the CD

this album is great. "HeartBreath" is just perfect

Trance Archaeology was pretty solid as well, in the same vein

Put on some Steve Roach to sooth the election brain, and wow 'Tomorrow' is dope. It avoids the signature things I associate with a lot of his music (shapeless pads, quiet plodding drums) and sounds much fresher for it.

ordered the vinyl, shipping January 11 ;_;

and even though i ordered it from Bandcamp, I have to wait for the download card insert, so my options are Spotify / pirate / nothing in the interim ;_;

weird, I got the FLACs from Bandcamp... I bought the CD though

yeah to get the vinyl you had to go to a different page on Bandcamp, which had a download ... of excerpts

I don't actually mind pirating having already bought the vinyl, I think I need succour after all the election drama and I'm asking for sympathy over here instead for some reason

Collecting Steve Roach vinyl sounds like a daunting prospect. Might need a new shelf.

It was nice to see that the digital was 'name your price' (I imagine because healing new age vibes should be accessible to everyone?)

message me, lukas

I have to order via Normans records in the UK, but in the past (for Portals comp).

an email to the label with proof you have bought the vinyl might see you get a BC download code.

This has worked in the past for a few labels and for Portals, Behind the Sky did me a solid.

A note for Sunday:

All Souls Procession closing Ceremony Live Stream Tucson Arizona Sunday November 8th 6pm to 8 pm AZ time.
This Sunday I will perform the closing ceremony music for the 31st annual All Souls Procession Ceremony. I will also joined by electro acoustic artist Serena Gabriel in a streamed studio performance just after 6PM and in the live closing ceremony at around 7:30 PM AZ time. (address below)

The 31st annual All Souls Procession is a celebration and mourning of the lives of our loved ones and ancestors; This year it is presented at the Annex Performance Space in Downtown Tucson. Last year I performed the closing ceremony for approximately 100,000 people; this year, with no procession occuring the closing ceremony will be performed live in the outdoor venue with only the production staff on hand. It will be streamed worldwide here: allsoulsprocession.org/livestream/

Putting this here to signal boost and hopefully not forget this is on.

https://soundquestfest.live/

set times look like all nighter for me in the UK, but also might sync the dawn rising for the final acts.