Steve Roach
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Steve Roach
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A longstanding leader in contemporary electronic music, composer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Roach (born 1955 in La Mesa, California) drew on the beauty and power of the earth's landscapes to create lush, meditative soundscapes influential on the emergence of ambient and trance. A onetime professional motorbike racer born in California in 1955, Roach -- inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis -- taught himself to play synthesizer at the age of 20; debuting in 1982 with the album Now, his early work was quite reminiscent of his inspirations, but with 1984's Structures From Silence his music began taking enormous strides, the album's expansive and mysterious atmosphere inspired directly by the natural beauty of the southwestern U.S. Subsequent works including 1986's three-volume Quiet Music series honed Roach's approach, his dense, swirling textures and hypnotic rhythms akin to environmental sound sculptures. In 1988, inspired by the Peter Weir film The Last Wave, Roach journeyed to the Australian outback, with field recordings of aboriginal life inspiring his acknowledged masterpiece, the double-album Dreamtime Return. A year later, he teamed with percussionist Michael Shrieve and guitarist David Torn for The Leaving Time, an experiment in ambient jazz. After relocating to the desert outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, Roach established his own recording studio, Timeroom, and in the years to follow grew increasingly prolific, creating both as a solo artist and in tandem with artists including Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Jorge Reyes and Kevin Braheny -- in all, close to two dozen major works in the 1990s alone, all of them located at different points on the space-time continuum separating modern technology and primitive music. His album roster from that decade includes: Strata (1990), Artifacts (1994), Well Of Souls (1995), Amplexus: Collected Works From The 1995 Ltd Series (1997), and Dust To Dust (1998). Early Man was released on Projekt in early 2001, followed by one of his many collaborations with Vidna Obmana.
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PawelP
December 18, 2016
edited 6 months ago
He's the best Ambient composer of all time.Godfather of Space Ambient genre and Independent music. Im also creating music and he's for me the biggest inspiration. I recommend my favourites: The Magnificent Void, Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces, Texture Maps: The Lost Pieces Vol. 3 ,Quiet Music..must have for every ambient fans.. He's music will be always in my heart.
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ujjaya
September 17, 2015
Where are "Forgotten Gods" (1993) and "Earth Island" (1994) from Steve Roach, Jorge Reyes & Suzo Saiz (a trio who took the name of Suspended Memories). Forgotten Gods is the most live ambient album.
Without Steve and Jorge (RIP) my musical project (Ujjaya) had not exist.
Without Steve and Jorge (RIP) my musical project (Ujjaya) had not exist.
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mrdude
August 25, 2012
I've been a long time fan of Steve's work, and one thing I've noticed is that although he is a super talented artist, he is also a painter of sound. If a painter paints a picture of the landscape, you can see the sense of depth and feeling in the picture. Steve paints with sound and you also get the sense of depth and feeling from his sound 'paintings.'
He is the only artist that I know of that can convey this sense of depth and expanse of a landscape into his music.
He is the only artist that I know of that can convey this sense of depth and expanse of a landscape into his music.
Chroniz
July 24, 2010
edited over 6 years ago
Steve Roach is a magnificent artist and truly a pioneer in the ambient music realm. Alone and together with many colleagues and friends, he has left a mark to the ambient music in its many forms - organic, tribal, infinite soundworlds, the somber soundscapes, minimal works, sequenced syntherizer pieces and desertscapes.
It is quite amazing how he has released numerous works with an incredibly profilic speed - yet most of his works have still been 'excellent', 'great' or at least 'good'. In my books, the number one ambient artist. Missing his works such as Structures From Silence, Dreamtime Return, The Dream Circle, The Magnificent Void, Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces, Dynamic Stillness and many more, would be a pity. Dare I say, his music might be well known as classic ambient in the late future.
It is quite amazing how he has released numerous works with an incredibly profilic speed - yet most of his works have still been 'excellent', 'great' or at least 'good'. In my books, the number one ambient artist. Missing his works such as Structures From Silence, Dreamtime Return, The Dream Circle, The Magnificent Void, Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces, Dynamic Stillness and many more, would be a pity. Dare I say, his music might be well known as classic ambient in the late future.
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by stratosfera90
jonarmst
January 27, 2017I don't think he's ever quite gotten the respect or awe he deserves in "electronic" music circles since he's of a slightly older generation and not necessarily as well known, so anyone with an interest in dark, brooding, ambient music (often with excellent exotic overtones) would be well served to check him out. He's one of those ultra rare artists that not only has gotten better with age, but MUCH better with age over what is now a decades-long timespan.