Steve Roach -- the endlessly meditative thread

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FR0thRsgMY

Meantime, starting in a little under an hour from now, per the man himself:

Steve Roach Premiere Streaming Concert Event TONIGHT! 6PM PST, 7PM MST, 8PM CST, 9PM EST, 2AM GMT
Join us for this 2 hour premiere stream concert originally recorded February 7, 2020 in Phoenix Arizona. This was one of the last times I would perform live with an audience before the pandemic took hold. Its a great 3 camera presentation. The set, visuals and sound were all at a high point for this one.
I will be on hand at the Youtube chat for the duration of the concert. See you there!
www.youtube.com/steveroachofficial

It’s a very nice performance!

that hearts of space bumper is the greatest thing I've ever seen

i really need to go to bed but he got the didj out and i'm transfixed.

He opened with Structures From Silence. What a legend

Indeed -- and if you stayed all the way to the end, he's introduced a new 24/7 streaming project on YouTube, the Immersion Zone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY-otpFaJ-w

ready for my 24/7/365 Steve Roach, which I will only turn off when I feel like listening to the world

If you've been subscribing via Bandcamp he just dropped an interesting rerelease: The Leaving Time, retitled The Lost Time, his late eighties major label collaboration with Michael Shrieve:

https://www.discogs.com/Michael-Shrieve-Steve-Roach-The-Leaving-Time/release/219968

Plus folks like guitarist David Torn, as you can pretty audibly tell from the opening track. Kinda reminds me of sonically adjacent if not exactly similar stuff like Laswell's Hear No Evil. Roach's new liner notes make some cryptic reference about it being "long out-of-print and locked up in the RCA vaults at this point" so I have a feeling this is his way of mmmaybe sneaking it out quietly.

he's working on a collab with Michael Stearns which I am looking forward to

he's working on a collab with Michael Stearns which I am looking forward to

yes, based on both their performances during Steve's festival, that should be a great record.

If you have fifteen minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8Nw9dVUokA

Per the man himself:

A rare look into the deep end of me working at the Timeroom in Tucson, Arizona Timeroom studio in 2000. I designed and had the studio built in in the mid 90s and since moved to Baja AZ, below Tucson in the mid 2000's.
This was shot in cinéma vérité style by Fever Dreams collaborator William Merkle, this visual artifact presents a fascinating look into my working in the studio unseen until now. You will hear raw elements of Early Man, Fever Dreams, Blood Machine and Streams and Currents. This surreal look back in time with Linda and my beloved dogs Nala and Raven, the reliable and now departed messengers from between the worlds.

I do love this

1980’s - I worked @ Licorice Pizza Records on the Sunset strip in W. Hollywood. Many wild stories!

At this time, I played solo synth concerts in clubs & theaters all over S. CA. & was in a synth trio, Moebius, that played in new wave & punk clubs. #electronicmusic #ambient pic.twitter.com/Ea5VMVqvX1

— Steve Roach Official (@steve_timeroom) September 15, 2021

I like to imagine Brad time travelling to go buy records from him.

I wonder if he did any gigs with Wall of Voodoo or The Screamers/Nervous Gender?

In an alternate universe, I travel to Arizona, take peyote and watch him perform in a desert for like two days.

Great wisdom

So over at Shfl I figured it was time to create an at-least initial guide to the good man's work:

https://theshfl.com/guide/steve-roach

ah excellent. Dynamic Stillness sounds intriguing.

First public live show since the start of the pandemic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWXlt0s1mqI

Pretty fantastic, that.

Spirit Dome has induced an altered state of consciousness in me more than once.

I just found this 24-7 Immersion Zone channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L0TWU7Altc

It is a lovely resource

So Steve and Robert Rich are doing a joint show in Tucson in the near future:

https://dice.fm/event/yekrr-steve-roachs-ambient-lounge-robert-rich-5th-dec-the-century-room-tucson-tickets

Meantime, live dates in March and April including Grace Cathedral here in SF, this’ll be great.

https://linktr.ee/ageofreflections

Been sitting on this news for a while but I'm thrilled to say that for my debut in The Wire I did an extensive interview with Steve the other month, over two hours. I hope I've created a bit of a definitive profile for him as a result -- at least at this stage! I learned a heck of a lot in the conversation.

https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/482

assume his next CD will be a remix of the interview

Astounding

It's a really good piece. I've yet to explore his work because there's just so goddamn much of it, but the bits about his friendship with/admiration of Schulze definitely make me want to dive in. I'll start with Structures From Silence and see where that leads me.

structures from silence absolutely slaps

His music really clicked for me when I learned that his studio is in Tucson. Its a nice translation of the feeling I had when I lived there and would drive home up into the mountains at dawn with my ears ringing from a warehouse show.

My copy just arrived and I'm very much looking forward to reading this. I came to him via being really into Jorge Reyes which led me to Suspended Memories and then to SR's solo work, though I feel I have only scratched the surface of his discography.