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.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
ordered the vinyl, shipping January 11 ;_;
― lukas, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 20:05 (three years ago) link
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 ;_;
― lukas, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
weird, I got the FLACs from Bandcamp... I bought the CD though
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
yeah to get the vinyl you had to go to a different page on Bandcamp, which had a download ... of excerptsI 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
― lukas, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
Collecting Steve Roach vinyl sounds like a daunting prospect. Might need a new shelf.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
It was nice to see that the digital was 'name your price' (I imagine because healing new age vibes should be accessible to everyone?)
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
message me, lukas
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 23:07 (three years ago) link
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.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Thursday, 5 November 2020 09:47 (three years ago) link
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/
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/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 November 2020 23:23 (three years ago) link
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.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 1 February 2021 17:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FR0thRsgMY
― xzanfar, Tuesday, 2 February 2021 00:33 (three years ago) link
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 GMTJoin 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
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 February 2021 01:07 (three years ago) link
It’s a very nice performance!
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 7 February 2021 02:29 (three years ago) link
that hearts of space bumper is the greatest thing I've ever seen
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 7 February 2021 03:04 (three years ago) link
i really need to go to bed but he got the didj out and i'm transfixed.
― stirmonster, Sunday, 7 February 2021 03:35 (three years ago) link
He opened with Structures From Silence. What a legend
― J. Sam, Sunday, 7 February 2021 03:56 (three years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 8 February 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
ready for my 24/7/365 Steve Roach, which I will only turn off when I feel like listening to the world
― fbclid=fhAZ3l (f. hazel), Monday, 8 February 2021 17:14 (three years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 May 2021 00:36 (two years ago) link
he's working on a collab with Michael Stearns which I am looking forward to
― eisimpleir (crüt), Monday, 17 May 2021 13:21 (two years ago) link
yes, based on both their performances during Steve's festival, that should be a great record.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Monday, 17 May 2021 13:59 (two years ago) link
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.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 July 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
I like to imagine Brad time travelling to go buy records from him.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:58 (two years ago) link
I wonder if he did any gigs with Wall of Voodoo or The Screamers/Nervous Gender?
― earlnash, Friday, 17 September 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
In an alternate universe, I travel to Arizona, take peyote and watch him perform in a desert for like two days.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 11 December 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
Great wisdom
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 11 December 2021 17:09 (two years ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 January 2022 16:56 (two years ago) link
ah excellent. Dynamic Stillness sounds intriguing.
― lukas, Monday, 10 January 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
First public live show since the start of the pandemic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWXlt0s1mqI
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 20 February 2022 04:25 (two years ago) link
Pretty fantastic, that.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 24 February 2022 21:51 (two years ago) link
Spirit Dome has induced an altered state of consciousness in me more than once.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 24 February 2022 22:15 (two years ago) link
I just found this 24-7 Immersion Zone channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L0TWU7Altc
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 17 November 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
It is a lovely resource
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 November 2022 23:49 (one year ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 September 2023 19:54 (six months ago) link
Meantime, live dates in March and April including Grace Cathedral here in SF, this’ll be great.https://linktr.ee/ageofreflections
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 2 December 2023 16:06 (three months ago) link
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
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 21:09 (three weeks ago) link
assume his next CD will be a remix of the interview
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 21:10 (three weeks ago) link
Astounding
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 21:16 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 21:28 (three weeks ago) link
structures from silence absolutely slaps
― ava (paolo), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 22:00 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 22:53 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 22:57 (three weeks ago) link
structures from silence so beautiful, i think i've begun dabbling in others but really need to amp that up
― Swen, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 23:12 (three weeks ago) link
Projekt records are a good follow on bandcamp as most of the back catalogue is on name your price costs.
which means its easier to drop £1-5 on a digital download, Structures from Silence is still a great start.
His 2021 Michael Stearns collab is recommended.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:00 (three weeks ago) link
I'm not sure that's the right word in this case. "Structures from Silence absolutely gently brushes your cheek"?
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:25 (three weeks ago) link
lol
― Swen, Wednesday, 6 March 2024 14:35 (three weeks ago) link