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  Steve Roach Biography
Roach stands on his own unique ground and brings into form a kind of recognition through sound that speaks of the ages in a language understood by people across many cultures and continents.
Roach enhanced the listener's awareness and sense of their physical surroundings by capturing the influence of his experiences with deep meditations and the infusion of slow breath and silence into soundscape.
Roach's music often shape-shifts into many forms, from serene sound meditations to what is described by critic Dwight Loop as "techno-tribal music for the global village", blending the visceral sounds he designs on synthesizers and samplers with the primordial rhythms of ethnic percussion and other exotic instruments, including the Australian didgeridoo.
www.steveroach.com /Info/Info.html   (1797 words)

  
  Avantgarde Music. Steve Roach: biography, discography, reviews, links
Roach dà il massimo nei grandi spazi aperti, libero da limiti di tempo, solo con la sua strumentazione elettronica a costruire mondi sonori che riflettono il suo stato mentale in maniera tanto più fedele quanto più hanno tempo di focalizzarsi, e che dopo un po' sembrano vivere di vita propria.
Roach assimila nel suo tetro habitat di suoni elettronici in libertà anche i ritmi convenzionali della musica di consumo, i quali, accoppiati alle lunghe frasi melodiche della scuola tedesca, definiscono atmosfere di quiete astrale.
Roach e` il piu` grande affabulatore elettronico di sempre, l'equivalente moderno dei cantastorie di un tempo: invece di raccontare le epiche imprese di qualche eroe del passato, racconta quelle, piu` paniche che epiche, di se stesso a caccia dei segreti del nostro universo.
www.scaruffi.com /avant/roach.html   (9568 words)

  
 Steve Roach Biography
Roach has earned his position in the international pantheon of major new music artists over the last decade through his ceaseless productivity, constant innovation,and open–minded collaborations with numerous artists and the psychological depth of his music.
Roach’s music described by critic Dwight Loop, as "techno tribal music for the global village," blends the visceral sounds he designs on synthesizers and samplers with the primordial rhythms of ethnic percussion and other exotic instruments, including the Australian didgeridoo.
Roach also scored music for a PBS documentary on the rock art of the Dreamtime (the foundation of Aboriginal mythology) and recorded indigenous artists for the critically–acclaimed release Australia: Sound of the Earth (17071).
www.harmonies.com /biographies/roach.htm   (853 words)

  
 STEVE ROACH - PRINCE OF DRONES - Ambient - TRANCE - Electronics - EER-MUSIC.com"
A Roach concert is a primal ritual lit by candles and perfumed with incense, a mind-expanding light show, and a meditative experience, all wrapped in that trademark sound whose reverb, whether in the studio or in the performance space, seems to go on forever.
Roach himself is the opposite of the gyrating rock showman or pompous classical virtuoso; dressed in dark clothing and almost hidden behind the array of electronics, he is the wizard behind the curtain who delivers real magic.
Steve Roach: Pure Flow Timeroom, 2001 www.steveroach.com info@steveroach.com Pure Flow is "an essential flow of atmospheric soundscapes by Steve Roach." It is a collection of six pieces from Timeroom CD's and a previously unreleased track, "Hovering." The pieces are sequenced by the feelings evoked, not by chronology.
eer-music.com /reviews/s_roach.html   (12498 words)

  
 e|i magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
From the early ’80s, Roach has consistently eked out a definitive niche in the electronic music community, sidestepping misinformed pigeonholers desperate to brandish his music ‘new age,’ breaking free of the Teutonic chains of yesteryear and creating a formidable catalogue of sonic art lesser talents can only pray to aspire to.
Roach’s knack for creating intense, deeply involved soundworlds has arisen both from his mooring to time-blasted lands and the reinterpretations of his earthly muse in a live setting.
Here Roach is in his ragged glory, ripping into his machines with gusto, devising vast weather systems of sonic events that writhe unabashedly between campfire and computer.
www.ei-mag.com /archive-roach.php   (867 words)

  
 ORIGINS: Steve Roach - DiscorD Distribution
Roach's twentieth recording documents the latest chapter in his ever expanding style; a highly instinctual vocabulary of futuristic, yet organic electronics combined with forms of expression, as old as man himself.
Through it all, Steve Roach deftly brings to life a story of ancestors and heroes, medicine men and ceremonies at dusk, as he reminds us that one day we too will be artifacts in the minds of some future civilization.
Roach masterfully combined these two aspects of his style on the double album Dreamtime Return, considered by many critics to be a landmark in the new music genre.
www.discord.co.uk /Origins-Steve-Roach/17081-2   (346 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Artifacts: Music: Steve Roach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Steve's music is so soothing and relaxing in a way that gets your mind away from your everyday worries.
Roach's 1993 release Origins was a consummate example of tribal-ambient electronica, his finest solo recording since Dreamtime Return, the album generally considered to be his masterpiece by both critics and listeners alike.
Artifacts is the follow-up to Origins and like previous Roach recordings, it continues to blaze new trails in sound synthesis.
www.amazon.ca /Artifacts-Steve-Roach/dp/B0000007VA   (725 words)

  
 Ambient Masterworks by Steve Roach
Steve Roach, whose name has long been synonymous with the American ambient electronic movement, is also a musician (or sonic sculptor) with a considerably prolific output.
One of the sounds employed by Roach (mainly on the second CD) is clearly sourced from the sound of a glass bottle rolling across a concrete surface.
Although simple in its origins, this sound is subjected to intense and inventive processing, until what you hear is vibrantly ethereal and downright eerie.
www.soniccuriosity.com /sc084.htm   (792 words)

  
 Steve Roach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Steve was a perfect Californian, taken with motors and beaches and the motocross craze.
David Stahl and Steve Roach travel extensively in Australia with the explorer Percy Trezise, an airplane pilot who is obsessed with the culture and myths of the Aborigines and who has been searching for 30 years for the caves and paintings of the Men of Dreams.
Roach is truly at the limits of the known world; he is pivoting at the abyss and is about to take off in flight.
www.deeplistenings.it /pages/steve_roach.htm   (2867 words)

  
 Ambient Visions Presents an Interview with Steve Roach
Steve has recorded in many "sub-genres" of electronic music.
For the last 23 years Steve Roach has been creating some of the most innovative and personal electronic compositions ever to find their way onto vinyl, cassettes and CD's.
Steve feels that the urge to create his compositions is equivalent to the act of breathing and I'm sure that explains why he has been so prolific over the years and why he has no intention of slowing down in the foreseeable future.
www.ambientvisions.com /roach.htm   (6737 words)

  
 Steve Roach- Interview
PJ: Hello Steve, could you start off by giving us a synopsis of the developments and experiences in your life that pushed you in the direction of your work.
There's something really beautiful and inspiring to have these boundaries around you to work within and have such an infinite number of combinations to bring out the feeling that I was going for at that time.
I felt like all of this work, all of the questions I was asking, and all of the answers that I was starting to get - musically and spiritually; in my own dreams and in my own waking moments of the in-betweens -- all of those things were really starting to come together.
www.onepeople.com /intArtists/artists/roachintv2.html   (6422 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Roach's obsession with the shifting of time finds form in his gift for creating trance-inducing rhythms that sound both primordial and futuristic.
Through it all, Roach reminds us that one day we, too, will be the artifacts in the minds of some future civilization.
The Artist For 15 years, Steve Roach has been pushing the boundaries of musical expression with a continually evolging style that has always existed outside current trends and defied genre labeling.
music.hyperreal.org /library/publicity/steve_roach/artifacts   (194 words)

  
 Steve Roach : Now/Traveler - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Now/Traveler is a collection of pieces that find their origins in Steve Roach's earliest recorded works.
This recording is not as glossy as Steve Roach's later work, but for fans this is a great look into the vintage, pre-digital side of Steve Roach's massive body of work.
You really hear Steve Roach working with very little technology, compared to his later works, and crafting quite a fascinating recording that was years ahead of it's time; as Now and Traveler were Steve Roach's first recordings, this collection foreshadows the near-infinite creative energy that Steve Roach would use to his benefit in later years.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,154632,00.html   (304 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Origins: Music: Steve Roach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
ORIGINS may be the pinnacle of an ascent into the mystic and primordial places Roach began to visit on DREAMTIME RETURN and WORLD'S EDGE, and with the Suspended Memories project.
Track 1, "Artifacts" (the name of an album produced by Roach a year earlier), a hefty twelve minutes long, begins with the haunting sound of the Bull Roarer, the traditional communication device made of mulga wood used by the Aborigines.
This album is the culmination of Roach's tribal-influenced explorations beginning with Dreamtime Return and continuing with his two collaborations with Robert Rich and Suspended...
www.amazon.com /Origins-Steve-Roach/dp/B0000007V9   (991 words)

  
 MIRAGE AT THE CROSSROADS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Biff Johnson is a musician from Sacramento firmly entrenched in the Steve Roach musical family, creating ambient soundscapes with rainsticks, percussion, synths, and more.
Again, the primary inspiration here seems to be Roach's music circa Origins or Artifacts, yet Johnson's seems to go one step further with his use of "stones, bones and archaics." Take "Urban Initiation," for example, full of rainsticks and other processed sounds.
Steve Roach takes a more active role on Mirage, blending in electronics and even harmonica on "A Road from Somewhere." His influence may even be stronger the second time around, but it's not enough to make in the CD a complete clone.
broadvista.com /mirageComments.htm   (500 words)

  
 The Ethereal Electronic Music of Steve Roach, Vidna Obmana, and Kelly David
While "pure" electronics display an unearthly resonance, in Roach's expert hands the guitar proves itself to be just as capable of filling the air with ethereal sound.
Where others may be satisfied to compile passages of raw scrapings and dreamy strumming, Roach treats the output of his guitars like an assortment of airborne mists, guiding these sonic vapors into introspective currents whose elegant contortions smoothly traverse space and time to generate a timeless zone of infinite expanse.
The fusion of Roach's arid ambience and Obmana's echoing caverneque sound creates an interface that merges these contrasting evocations into a realm of unprecedented properties: a subterranean region that possesses an infinite sky, a union of earth and heaven.
www.empire-of-the-claw.com /soniccuriosity/sc059.htm   (1242 words)

  
 Artifacts
On his 1993 recording, Origins (17081), Steve Roach explored the cracks between conscious and unconscious awareness, weaving a tale of primal mystery and musical sorcery through a compelling synthesis of ancient and modern aesthetics.
With Artifacts, Roach delves deeper into his own sonic mythology expanding his skills on acoustic instruments and realizing a profound level of artistry on electronics.
For fifteen years, Steve Roach has been pushing the boundaries of musical expression with a continually evolving style that has always existed outside current trends and defied genre labeling.
www.blacksun.com /releases/17082.htm   (244 words)

  
 Music : Origins   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
"Origins" is another one of those rare, absolutely treasureable albums that you do not dare sell or remove from your CD collection.
Released in 1993, it is nothing short of pure musical genius at work--gloriously free of corporate pressures or boundaries: purely harmonious with genuine Aboriginal overtones, deliberate in its intent, flowing, rhythmic, uninhibited by CEO say-so's.
ORIGINS may be the pinnacle of an ascent into the mystic and primordial places Roach began to visit on DREAMTIME RETURN and WORLD'S EDGE, and with the Suspended Memories project.
www.prep4usmle.com /B0000007V9/Origins.htm   (353 words)

  
 Fever Dreams by Steve Roach
Steve Roach is certainly no stranger to these "pages" with a constant flow of albums on various labels in different styles, but always with the same attention to quality and diversity that has made him one of America's pre-eminent electronic musicians.
The instrumentation used ought to be familiar to those who've been following Roach's travels over the past few years, though it is used to a significantly different effect on this particular album.
Special praise should go to the creator of the artwork, who manages to portray the strange, colorful, earthly sound environment of the music with the album graphics: a jumble of ancient ruins, natural detritus, swirled and blurry colors.
mysite.verizon.net /vze6zk8a/theambientreview/id95.html   (757 words)

  
 AmbientMusicGuide.com - Steve Roach
With his distinctive melange of analogue and digital synthesisers and highly imaginative soundscaping, Steve Roach is one of the most respected of America's electronic musicians.
Although it was specifically commissioned by outside sources for relaxation, healing and clinical use, the quality of the music remains mostly uncompromised by this potentially limiting premise.
During the 1980's Steve Roach albums were modest in number but consistent in quality.
www.ambientmusicguide.com /pages/R/roachSteve.php   (801 words)

  
 Artifacts (album) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Artifacts (1994) is a tribal ambient album by the American artist Steve Roach.
There is a poem by Linda Kohanov in the liner notes which is a sequel to her poem in Origins.
Steve Roach (synthesizers, samplers, percussion, didgeridoos, Northern Sonoran dreampipe, frame drums, dumbek, voice, rainstick, clay water pots, ocarina, clay flutes, Indonesian gong, Native American grinding stone, misc.)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Artifacts_(album)   (145 words)

  
 XOX article
Roach has had his hand on the pulse of shaping the ambient landscape with consistent passion and vision.
Roach will perform at the Aladdin Theater on June 29th and opening the concert will be Portland's own accomplished electronic artist Paul Ellis, whose dynamic sounds heard on his most recent Into the Liquid Unknown (Hypnos / Binary) has brought worldwide accolades and placed him in several top-twenty essential release lists for 2001.
Steve Roach: I feel fortunate to have started when I did for many reasons.
www.xoxmag.com /roach.shtml   (1060 words)

  
 Conference Recording Tape Description   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In this 90-minute psychoactive sound and visual odyssey, Steve Roach alters, stretches, and suspends time completely through hybrid trance rhythms and expansive, otherworldly soundscapes drawn from all things acoustic and electric.
Prepare to be catapulted out of the Land of Logic as we journey through the heights and depths of the mythic imagination, catching a glimpse now and then of a magnificent void rich with the pure potential of what lies beyond form.
Steve will be joined by frequent collaborator percussionist Byron Metcalf.
www.conferencerecording.com /aaaDescription.asp?tid=ITA24-075   (207 words)

  
 Steve Roach | Midnight Moon
Steve Roach, the brilliantly creative Arizona-based electronic composer, is always ready to try new sounds.
The guitar is used not as a virtuoso or melodic instrument but purely as a sound-source, and it seems to wail and weep, rather than tell stories.
Yet I have to admit, as a longtime Roach fan I prefer the expansive, upbeat Roach of Light Fantastic far more than this sometimes dreary vision of the darkness over the Western desert.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=6900   (276 words)

  
 Steve Roach: Origins
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We accept major credit cards on a secure server, PayPal, personal checks, and more; see the Policies and Shipping page for details and shipping rates.
www.steveroach.com /store/store.php?item=38   (125 words)

  
 Steve Roach | THG Lexikon
Steve Roach (*1955 in Kalifornien) ist ein weltbekannter amerikanischer Soundpionier aus dem Ambient Genre.
Für Roach ist die Musik ein zentrales Medium, um seine Assoziationen mit der Natur zu verarbeiten.
Space and Time: An Introduction to the Soundworlds of Steve Roach (compilation), Projekt, 2003.
www.tomshardware.de /lexikon/Steve_Roach   (413 words)

  
 John Diliberto's Picks
Steve Roach has spent most of the last decade pursuing a music that merged technology and primitivism, sending the sounds of didgeridoos, harmonicas and ocarinas, sticks, stones and bones into a landscape of effects-processing and synthesizer atmospheres.
This isn't the Steve Roach of sequencer dervishes like Empetus, but neither is it the organic techno-tribal grooves of albums like Origins.
Steve Roach takes a side-long glance at contemporary techno/ambient music, but finds his own vocabulary within it.
www.echoes.org /picks5.html   (2598 words)

  
 Artists: Roach Stearns and SunsingerNew Age Music
For visionary composers STEVE ROACH, MICHAEL STEARNS and RON SUNSINGER, Kiva is a realm of pure sound which transforms the everyday world into a conduit for the extraordinary.
For audio-visionary composers STEVE ROACH, MICHAEL STEARNS and RON SUNSINGER, Kiva is a realm of pure sound shaped into a powerful journey that transforms the everyday world into a conduit for the extraordinary.
The project began when Sunsinger, an adopted member of several tribes, was given permission to record the sounds of sacred Indian rites, something practically unheard of in Native American circles.
www.valley-entertainment.com /Artists/Roach_Stearns_and_Sunsinger   (401 words)

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