Steve Roach - Return to the Dreamtime '2018
Artist | Steve Roach Related artists |
Album name | Return to the Dreamtime |
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Date | 2018 |
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Play time | 2:25:22 |
Format / Bitrate | Stereo 1420 Kbps
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Media | CD |
Size | 335 / 740 MB |
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A longstanding leader in contemporary electronic music, composer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Roach drew on the beauty and power of the Earths landscapes to create lush, meditative soundscapes influential on the emergence of ambient and trance. 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 1984s Structures from Silence, his music began taking enormous strides. The albums expansive and mysterious atmosphere was partly inspired by the natural beauty of the southwestern U.S. Subsequent works, including 1986s three-volume Quiet Music series, honed Roachs 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. In the years to follow, he grew increasingly prolific, creating both as a solo artist and in tandem with acts including Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Jorge Reyes, and Kevin Braheny -- in all, he recorded close to two-dozen major works in the 90s 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 (1991), Artifacts (1994), Well of Souls (1995), Amplexus (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, Innerzone. Throughout the remainder of the 2000s, Roach remained extremely prolific. His release schedule included the Projekt titles Trance Spirits (with Jeffrey Fayman) and the quadruple-disc Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces, Spirit Dome and Somewhere Else (with Obmana), Fever Dreams, Mantram, Nada Terma (with Byron Metcalf and Mark Seelig), the ongoing Immersion series, Arc of Passion, and Stream of Thought (with Erik Wøllo). He also self-released several titles on his own through Timeroom Editions. Over the next decade, Roach would show no signs of slowing as he continued with a nonstop slew of new material under his own name, as well as collaborations and soundtrack work. Though new volumes of work appeared at a rate of more than three albums per year, standouts included more collaborations with Byron Metcalf, 2013s Future Flows, 2014s disparate releases of arid road trip music on The Desert Collection, and ambient explorations of mortality and humanity on The Delicate Forever. Roach began constructing an extensive analog modular synthesizer system in 2014, and in 2015 the album Skeleton Keys was composed entirely using this setup. In 2016, Roach released two full-lengths with Robert Logan (the more rhythmic Biosonic and the serene drone album Second Nature), as well as solo efforts This Place to Be and Shadow of Time. The ever prolific composer remained busy throughout 2017 with releases like Painting in the Dark, Fade to Gray, Spiral Revelation, and The Passing. In August of that year, Roach returned to the Projekt label with the long-form ambient work Long Thoughts. ~ Jason Ankeny Tracklist: 1.01 Steve Roach - Towards the Dream (2018) 1.02 Steve Roach - The Continent (2018) 1.03 Steve Roach - Songline (2018) 1.04 Steve Roach - The Ancients’ Way 2.01 Steve Roach - Magnificent Gallery (2018) 2.02 Steve Roach - A Circular Ceremony (2018) 2.03 Steve Roach - Looking for Safety (2018) 2.04 Steve Roach - Towards the Continuum 2.05 Steve Roach - After the Return
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- 2024 Reflections in Repose
- 2024 The Desert Winds Of Change
- 2024 Waves of Now
- 2023 Rest of Life
- 2023 Alive in the City Of Angels (L.A. 2023)
- 2023 Sanctuary of Desire
- 2022 Subtle Twist Of Fate
- 2022 Zones, Drones & Atmospheres
- 2021 AS IT IS
- 2021 Phoenix Rising (Exclusive Edition)
- 2021 Pulse and Groove
- 2021 Quiet Music (35th Anniversary Remastered 3-Hour Collection)
- 2020 A Soul Ascends [2]
- 2020 Deeper
- 2020 Nectar Meditation
- 2020 Timeroom Livestream 8 - 22 - 2020
- 2020 TOMORROW
- 2019; 2020 Stillpoint
- 2019 Trance Archeology
- 2019 Bloom Ascension
- 2019 STILLPOINT
- 2018 Slow Heat [2]
- 2018 Molecules of Motion
- 2018 The Passing
- 2018 Mercurius
- 2018 Atmosphere For Dreaming
- 2018 Electron Birth
- 2018 Return to the Dreamtime
- 2017 CORE
- 2017 Long Thoughts
- 2017 Nostalgia for the Future
- 2017 Traveler
- 2016 Live in Tucson: Pinnacle Moments
- 2016 Fade To Gray
- 2016 Painting In The Dark
- 2016 Emotions Revealed
- 2016 Shadow of Time (Extended)
- 2016 Spiral Revelation [2]
- 2015 Bloodmoon Rising - Night 4
- 2015 Bloodmoon Rising Complete 5 Hour Collection
- 2015 Invisible
- 2012 Groove Immersion (2012 Box Set) (CD3)
- 2012 Back To Life (2CD)
- 2012 Groove Immersion
- 2011 Quiet Music (The Original 3-Hour Collection) (CD1)
- 2011 Quiet Music (The Original 3-Hour Collection) (CD2)
- 2011 Quiet Music (The Original 3-Hour Collection) (CD3)
- 2011 Live At Soundquest Fest
- 2011 Immersion: Five (2CD)
- 2010 Sigh Of Ages
- 2009 Afterlight
- 2009 Destination Beyond
- 2009 Immersion Four
- 2009 Dynamic Stillness (CD1)
- 2009 Dynamic Stillness (CD2)
- 2008 Arc Of Passion (CD1)
- 2008 Arc Of Passion (CD2)
- 2008 Landmass
- 2008 A Deeper Silence
- 2006 Immersion : One
- 2004 Places Beyond: The Lost Pieces 4
- 2004 Fever Dreams Ii
- 2003 Life Sequence
- 2003 Texture Maps - The Lost Pieces Vol.3
- 2003 Space And Time
- 2001 Core
- 2001 Early Man - 2Cd
- 2000 Midnight Moon
- 1999/2020 The Dream Circle (2020 Remastered Edition)
- 1999 Light Fantastic
- 1999 The Ambient Expanse
- 1998 Dust To Dust
- 1994 Artifacts
- 1993 Origins [2]
- 1992 NOW
- 1989 Dreamtime Return
- 1988/2018 Dreamtime Return - 30th Anniversary Remastered Edition
- 1988 Dreamtime Return (CD2)
- 1988 Dreamtime Return (CD1)
- 1986 Empetus
- 1984/2024 Structures from Silence (Deluxe) (40th Anniversary Remaster)
- 1984 Structures From Silence
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