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Catching up with Steve Roach • November 18, 2024
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One Day of Forever
Excerpt from a review at Chain D.L.K. by Vito Camarretta:
“Steve Roach’s One Day of Forever arrives like a deep exhalation into timelessness. Recorded with a minimalistic touch that feels as expansive as the open desert spaces Roach calls home, the album immerses listeners in lush ambient layers and enveloping warmth. Its ethereal tones appear to stretch the limits of time itself, perhaps best expressed in the opening track, ‘All I Know,’ where a gently looping melody unfolds across 19 minutes of celestial quietude.”
One Day of Forever download remains Name-Your-Price for the rest of the week at Projekt’s Bandcamp. You can also pick up the CD there or at Projekt’s UK Webstore or European Webstore.
A review in Spectrum Culture.
Life in the Soundcurrent documentary
Amazon Prime in the US and UK have a beautiful 45-minute documentary: Steve Roach: Life in the Soundcurrent. A man overwhelmed by the cacophony of everyday life turns to the desert to find peace, which inspires him to create music from what he refers to as the “soundcurrent.”
Big Ears Festival
Steve Roach performs at the prestigious Big Ears Festival 2025 in Knoxville, TN, on Thursday March 27 & Saturday 29. Both shows will be 2-hour sets with visuals by Age of Reflections and Eric Epstein. The concerts are presented in the historic Church Street United Methodist built in 1931; it’s one of the most distinctive and recognizable buildings in Knoxville. bigearsfestival.org/
Steve reflects on his recent Tucson show
Steve writes: After touring since March, in recent weeks I took a bit of time to recalibrate and get back to life. Low and behold cosmic metal comrade’s Blood Incantation’s US tour (in support of the epic new rave-receiving album Absolute Elsewhere) which started in Boulder in October with me on the bill opening the portal, landed in Tucson on Thursday October 13th. Two days before the date I received an invite from the band on the performance hot line to present a microdose set. I love this kind spontaneous call to action! I mapped the energy of a 2 hour set into a 30-minute hyperdrive the night before the concert. For me the outcome was a wicked, breathless result. The audience was right there on the edge with me in a great way. We did no announcement of my set publicly which made for a fascinating, spontaneous incursion. Blood Incantation’s performance, sound and delivery of the complete new album in this intimate setting was masterful, massive and on fire. Do not miss this tour if this music is your cup of molten lava grog! Also on the bill was Midwife (Madeline Johnstone). Her emotional, moving solo performance of slowcore-haunted metal added to the burning down the boundaries and perceived limitations of genre divisions, I am loving these shows for all that it inspires in my live music and for the audience. Deep thanks to Blood Incantation and Midwife for the invitation here in Tucson.
Work on my new studio album is calling… back to it… more on this and other new release info soon!