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Steve Roach Live, Recent Press, & Opening the portal for Blood Incantation

I wanted to catch you up on all the exciting things that Steve Roach has going on at the moment…. Press, Live shows, new releases.

We’re taking preOrders on the beautiful Projekt 2LP color vinyl release of 1988’s Dreamtime Return. Albums are landing in America soon and Joe will ship to beat the September 6 street date. While you’re over at our Bandcamp page, add a copy of the 2nd pressing of Projekt’s Structures from Silence. If you put both in your cart they will ship when Dreamtime is ready.

July 16 2024: Spin Magazine names “Structures from Silence” a Top 10 Ambient Track of All Time!

Steve Roach — “Structures from Silence” (1984) —
After recording some of the earliest American music to bear the influence of Germany’s Berlin School kosmische bands, Roach discovered the Oberheim synthesizer and began a formidable mid-‘80s run with Structures from Silence. The main attraction on that 1984 release is the half-hour title track, on which Roach opens vast chasms with his left hand as the melody crescendos so gradually as to practically evade notice. This is about as good as pure ambient synthesizer music gets, and a lot of music he put out between Structures from Silence and 1988’s Dreamtime Return is on or near this level.

The Chicago Reader says: Ambient pioneer Steve Roach makes pristine music for deep listening.
Read the two paragraph teaser and catch Steve performing tonight in Chicago. Details below.

Steve discusses his iconic Structures from Silence on its 40th anniversary on the Echoes Podcast.

On October 4 in Boulder, Colorado, Steve Roach will be opening the portal for Blood Incantation. Then, a week later on October 12 in Denver, Colorado, an epic 2-hour solo cathedral concert for the 40th anniversary of Structures From Silence.

Blood Incantation are going on tour in support of the new album Absolute Elsewhere. The tour begins with a release-day show, featuring Steve Roach, at Colorado’s Boulder Theater on Friday, October 4. Info at Pitchfork and Brooklyn Vegan. The band comments, “Ahead of this, our inaugural voyage into the Absolute Elsewhere timeline will be christened by none other than the enigmatic Master of Silence, Mr. Steve Roach, who will open the Stargate alongside us at the Boulder Theater, in a unique and exploratory event truly showcasing Cosmic Music for Cosmic People.”

Steve Roach Bio

Steve Roach is a leading American pioneer in the evolution of ambient/electronic music, helping shape it into what it is today. Twice Grammy-nominated, his releases span over four decades and over 150 albums. His massive catalog of landmark recordings includes Structures from Silence, Dreamtime Return and Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (part 1-4). Drawing from a vast, unique and deeply personal authenticity, his albums are fueled by the momentum of a lifetime dedicated to the soundcurrent. Roach is an artist operating at the pinnacle of his career, driven by a passion and unbroken focus that lives within the soul-stirring depth of his music.

From the expansive, time-suspending spaces reflecting his spiritual home in Baja Arizona to the fire-breathing, sequencer, percussive-driven rhythmic expressions woven from all things electric and organic, this innovative world of sound has been nourished by years of transcendent concerts worldwide in extraordinary settings. A concert space within a lava tube on the Canary Island of Lanzarote, an ancient cathedral in the Basque region of Spain, a mountain-top Roman amphitheater in Verucchio Italy, a volcanic lava rock performance site encircled by 65 stone monoliths in Mexico City, along with cathedrals, intimate rock and jazz venues and classic theaters across the US and Europe are among the spectacular scenes that have informed the evolution of his work.

Roach’s two hours and longer extended solo concerts unfold as a continuous journey experience traveling through a vast range of sonic landscapes, dynamic emotion, visceral intensity and delicate introspection. Every live event is unique in response to the audience, venue, and the visual collaborators in tune with the trajectory of the set.

Always reaching toward what’s next on the horizon, Roach refuses to be tied down to any one stylistic direction. Capturing peak moments as they occur in his desert-based Timeroom studio or on the front side of now in the live setting, he creates a sonic experience that breathes pure emotion and delivers a vital life energy to an audience worldwide.

Steve Roach onTour

Chicago, IL — Fri August 9 • Epiphany Center for the Arts | Ticketing
Tucson, AZ — Mon September 2 • Ambient Summit @ Hotel Congress | Ticketing
Brooklyn, NY — Sat September 21 • St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church | Ticketing
Boulder, CO — Friday October 4 • The Boulder Theater • Opening the portal for Blood Incantation | Ticketing
Denver, CO — Sat October 12 • Central Presbyterian Church | Ticketing
Joshua Tree, CA — Sat October 26 • Institute of Mentalphysics aka Joshua Tree Retreat Center | Ticketing