| August 22, 2010 | Steve Roach Update: Nightbloom, Afterlight, SoundQuest Fest |
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| August 16, 2010 | Nightbloom Packaging Response and Clarification
After the recent newsletter announcing Nightbloom, some listeners and collectors have emailed expressing concern over the eco-wallet format. I want to make it clear that this packaging is for Nightbloom only. My future releases will remain in Digipaks, as Sigh of Ages and Dynamic Stillness were. These still use a minimal amount of plastic, but fit my criteria as the current favorite for the most elegant collectable package for either the bookshelf or for the collection. Projekt and I are always looking for unique ways to present our music, and this mini LP-like package is part of that pursuit.
The comments from Projekt's Sam Rosenthal were included in my newsletter as perspective on the Nightbloom release, and to show his direction for other Projekt artists. My future releases on both Timeroom Editions and Projekt will remain in normal Digipaks or jewel cases. The Nightbloom release has a smooth surface inside, and is exactly the same size as a Digipak. It's well-made and designed, with a thicker six-panel version that I requested. It has a spine where the title is readable from a bookshelf, and along with the eco no-plastic aspect, it reminds one of a classic vinyl double-LP jacket of days gone by, which was one of the reasons I chose this packaging for Nightbloom. I know many of you are collectors, and as I do, you regard the cover, package, texture and feel to be part of the overall release experience. |
| July 1, 2010 | We are now accepting pre-orders for Sigh of Ages. |
| June 13, 2010 | Tickets for the SoundQuest Fest are now on sale, at a discounted price! |
| June 13, 2010 | Excerpts from Sigh of Ages have been posted. |
| May 8, 2010 | Erik Wøllo's debut on Projekt, Gateway, is now available. |
| April 24, 2010 |  Coming in July: Sigh of Ages from Steve Roach. Emotions quietly stir and resonate in this deeply self-reflective album exploring the terrain between melodic electronic/ambient and modern minimalism. These six pieces utilize gentle melody, harmony and sonic tonality to poignantly reflect upon the passage of time, life lived, lives passed and a time of renewal: a sigh of the ages expressed in sound. |
| March 20, 2010 | A new t-shirt is just in: the Timeroom Editions Circuit Mandala, red on black. |
| March 20, 2010 | Dream Tracker: Byron Metcalf, Dashmesh Khalsa, Steve Roach
This new release will come as a surprise, as we've kept the lid on it until now. It's currently at the plant, and will be shipping around mid-April. It sounds AMAZING! The essential ingredients of ancient and contemporary shamanic trance states are fully activated in this highly potent new release. Byron carved out a collection of incredible trance grooves for nearly a year, eventually bringing in the prana-infused didgeridoo of Dashmesh Khalsa on every track. Steve joined on in early January 2010 and poured his heart and soul-drenched soundworlds into the six pieces, covering a full range of ecstatic dreamtime flow: rhythm, breath and expansion. The end result is a full-blown dreamtime alchemy of all the elements. The living, breathing percussion, didgeridoo and soundworlds are unified in a single purpose: to open to the door out of the ordinary world, initiating the listener into an empowered journey of infinite possibilities for spiritual rebirth, illumination, and transcendence. |
| March 7, 2010 | Chad Kettering's new release Voices of the Ancients is now available. |
| February 11, 2010 | Live at Grace Cathedral is in stock and shipping now! |
| February 11, 2010 | Soundquest Fest 2010 is set for October 23rd in Tucson. The lineup at this point is Steve Roach, Erik Wøllo, Byron Metcalf, Mark Seelig and Loren Nerell. All artists will play both solo and in different collaborative configurations. The event will be at the Berger Center, a great performance theater in central Tucson where Steve last played in 2006. It will be a one-day event starting in the afternoon and progressing into the evening. In the coming weeks we will have details posted online, and tickets available for sale. A nearby hotel will offer a discounted rate for attendees. October is the perfect month for a Tucson visit, to embrace the music and desert atmosphere. With an intimate theater setting of around 500 seats, you won't want to miss out on this once-in-a-lifetime gathering. More soon! |
| January 28, 2010 | After some fine-tuning of the cover art, the new 2-CD Live at Grace Cathedral is now at the factory. We expect it to be ready by mid-February, and an upcoming newsletter will announce when we will be accepting pre-orders. |
| January 16, 2010 | The ultra-deep release Darkest Before Dawn is back in stock, and on sale. |
| December 19, 2009 | Steve is featured twice on the Best of Echoes 2009 listener poll for Destination Beyond and Stream of Thought. |
| December 6, 2009 | The 1999 release Truth & Beauty was recently re-released by Projekt, and is now back in stock. If you haven't heard this collection of dynamic and emotional pieces, now is the time to catch up. |
| November 22, 2009 | Many thanks to the listeners who made Dreamtime Return the #2 album on Echoes' "20 Icons For 20 Years". Tune into Echoes during the next 20 weeks for special features from this listener poll, mapping out the releases of many significant sonic architects from the past 20 years. The Echoes Blog: Steve Roach, Icon of Echoes. [CORRECTION: The ranking was of artists, not albums. Steve was #2 on the list, behind Brian Eno!] |
| November 14, 2009 | Just a reminder that our sale on all David Parsons titles ends soon, November 26th! |
| November 7, 2009 | Inside the now sold-out 2009 Steve Roach Box Set was a beautiful photograph taken by Steve. Now you can download the wallpaper for your computer! |
| October 19, 2009 | Many thanks to those who came out for the successful eight-hour immersion event in Pomona on October 17th. The unique blend of Steve's music, Indonesian-flavored ambient artist Loren Nerell and prog rockers Djam Karet brought out a great group of diverse deep listeners who were treated to a large dose of this eclectic blend.
While this was Steve's only 2009 performance, plans are in motion for several concerts throughout 2010. Look for dates in Santa Fe, San Francisco, Los Angeles and more. A larger event in Tucson, Arizona is also in the works for October 2010. We have just listed a new Jeffery Koepper release Quadranteon; further adventures into the realms of vintage-era analog synth music. |
| September 24, 2009 | Steve headlines The Immersion Festival, October 17 in Pomona, California, with Djam Karet and Loren Nerell. Admission is free! |
| September 24, 2009 | As of today, all orders of the Box Set have been shipped. Deep thanks for the overwhelming response and feedback on the Box Set and the and the new releases. The Box Set is temporarily unavailable; lease check back Saturday evening, when we will resume sales on a first-come first-serve basis. |
| September 17, 2009 | The Box Set (Afterlight, Destination Beyond and Immersion: Four) is now shipping. With the enthusiastic response coming in at high tide, we are doing our best to get the orders out ASAP, hoping to be caught-up by September 25. Steve is currently hand printing, signing and numbering the boxes, a time-consuming process. Thanks for your patience and for supporting this very special project. As of September 16th, only about 75 copies remain! The CD's will continue to be sold individually after the Box Set sells-out. |
| September 3, 2009 | We have the worldwide exclusive on David Parson's new release JYOTI, through mid-November! Also, David's back-catalog is now on sale. Sale ends mid-November. |
| September 2, 2009 | Pre-orders for DESTINATION BEYOND, AFTERLIGHT and IMMERSION: FOUR are now being taken, as well as for the Box Set at a discounted price! |
| August 10, 2009 | Once again the true nature of the land of extremes has been working its magic in the Timeroom, as three new releases are in the final stages before birthing. DESTINATION BEYOND, AFTERLIGHT and IMMERSION: FOUR will all be released together in September. 500 will be available in a limited-edition box set, signed and numbered by Steve. The three will also be sold individually. |
| July 20, 2009 | We recently added two great new releases to the store: PHANTOMS by Forrest Fang and
RADIATE by Jeffrey Koepper. |
| July 12, 2009 | A new edition of TERRAFORM, Steve's 2006 collaboration with Loren Nerell, is now available. |
| June 28, 2009 | Download the new Dynamic Stillness wallpaper for your computer! |
| June 13, 2009 | For anyone who missed the cool yet understated A Deeper Silence t-shirt, all sizes are now on sale for just $9. |
| June 6, 2009 | 2006's deep ambient TERRAFORM, a collaboration with Steve and Loren Nerell, is being reissued on Projekt in a few months. We have just a few copies left of the original collector's version which comes in a DVD-sized case with postcards. Once this special edition is sold out, it's gone forever. |
| May 5, 2009 | Italian sound artist Antonio Testa has a new release now at the store, INFRAMUNDUS, a subterranean grotto soundscape. This Russian import features long-time collabrator Alio Die on four tracks, and comes in a special package with three postcards. Limited copies on hand. |
| May 2, 2009 | Tune into Music From the Hearts of Space this week, featuring a lengthy excerpt from Dynamic Stillness. |
| April 3, 2009 | We're now accepting pre-orders for DYNAMIC STILLNESS. Special pre-order sale price expires April 10th. |
| March 21, 2009 | Dynamic Stillness is coming in April. Read about it, and our big sale on a wide variety of titles, in our latest newsletter. |
| March 1, 2009 | Steve is the featured artist this month on the StillStream online radio station. |
| February 9, 2009 | On the Passing of Jorge Reyes:
The essence of Jorge's visionary courage to reach far and deep into the realm of ancestral memories will live on through his amazing work. We met within a landscape of beautiful and extreme conditions during a new music festival on the Spanish island of Lanzarote in the early 90s', occurring the same week the Gulf War started. Along with Suso Saiz we became fast friends with simpatico spirits. This set the tone for a real adventure that continued across three continents and a series of releases and concerts that are high points in in my life. The friendship, the music and creative conditions were always filled with passion, laughter and a fire that burned from a place we had no choice but to answer to. In working and hanging with Jorge, there was always a sense of stepping off the edge into a kind alluring and dangerous zone that always was supported by an unspoken trust of some primal state he had direct access to. I learned a great deal from Jorge; it was truly an honor to share the peaks and the relaxed moments. I have many great memories where we would find our way back from the edge after these long recordings or live sessions, hearing the results while sipping a fine Tequila with the sounds of our recent journey playing, then calling us back out once more. "Gone From Here", the closing track on Vine ~ Bark & Spore was the last track we created together. I need to hear that now. Steve Roach, 2 - 9 - 09 Suspended Memories Living Room Concert 1992 (YouTube) From John Dilberto of Echoes: I was saddened by the news of Jorge Reyes's passing. He performed live on Echoes with Suspended Memories and solo, and we interviewed him a couple of times. I've posted a tribute to Jorge, along with links to the audio of the interview on the Echoes Blog. Read more at World Music Central |
| December 20, 2008 | Our Wallpapers & Desktop Pictures collection now includes Arc of Passion and Stream of Thought. |
| December 1, 2008 | We're honored to be the exclusive worldwide source of David Parsons' new Earthlight. This highly-recommended release is now shipping, and can only be found at steveroach.com through the end of 2008. |
| November 15, 2008 | The Foundry label has closed their doors, and we just received the last 25 copies of Zero Point, a unique 2001 collaboration with Vidna Obmana and Steve Roach, Stephen Kent, Robert Rich, Not Breathing, and Thermal. The project was created using a variety of methods and collaborative trajectories by Seofon (a member of Ambient Temple of Imagination) serving as a center-point, coordinating the project.
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| November 15, 2008 | Didgeridoo master Stephen Kent's recent solo release Living Labyrinths is now available from our store.
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| October 26, 2008 | Photos from "Deep Sky Dreaming" have been posted. Thanks to everyone who made this a memorable event. |
| September 28, 2008 |  Coming late November on Projekt: STREAM OF THOUGHT. This is one of those releases that comes along every now and then where all the elements merge in alignment and a kind of magical sonic-musical alchemy occurs, taking the listening experience to a whole other level — the kind of experience where when it's over, you immediately want to hit Play again.
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| September 20, 2008 | Steve just completed an informative interview with Bert Strolenberg in the Netherlands for the Sonic Immersion web site. Covered in the interview is info on Steve's new releases including the collabration with Erik Wøllo, the short-lived Master Class program, thoughts on his recent releases and a lot more.
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| August 23, 2008 | A new book about synth music icon Klaus Schulze is just out. This sizable book by überfan Greg Allen is loaded with photos, album reviews and many interesting interviews with artists who have worked with Klaus or have been inspired by his works over the years. An interview with Steve is featured at the end of the book. |
| July 26, 2008 |  A new 2-CD Collectors Edition of EMPETUS is now available, on sale at a special price of $13.99! Any fan of sequencer-based pieces will not want to miss out on the bonus disc ("The Early Years") with two amazing never-before-released pieces of long-form sequencer bliss recorded circa 1982: "Harmonia Mundi" was recorded live in the L.A.-based Timeroom with Swiss-born electronic musician Thomas Ronkin. At 45 minutes, this is one of the more possessed and intense analog sequencer trance pieces you're likely to hear. "Release" is a 24-minute solo statement of emotion and energy.
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| July 15, 2008 | Steve's video KAIROS will be featured at the Paradigms Film Festival in Portugal, August 11th - 18th. |
| June 25, 2008 | Steve's 20th Timeroom Editions release, LANDMASS, is now available! |
| June 25, 2008 | Our beautiful and understated "A Deeper Silence" t-shirts are now in stock. |
| May 26, 2008 | Available online this week only, "Lonely Nights" is a brilliant 30-minute journey on the night travels of Astronomer Brian Skiff, produced for the BBC Radio 4 by Diane Hope and Alan Hall. Steve's music is heard throughout. Self-confessed nocturnal hermit Brian Skiff, discoverer of countless asteroids and a dozen comets, reflects upon the night sky and his isolated working conditions in this impressionistic sound portrait, set against the eerie backdrop of the Arizona mountains. The sounds of the night -- howling coyotes, bugling elks and chorusing frogs -- are interwoven with the heavy machinery of the telescope motors and domes in a richly layered musical mosaic. |
| May 6, 2008 | STEVE ROACH LIVE IN FLAGSTAFF! Tickets are now on sale for Steve's only 2008 performance in the US or beyond. "Deep Sky Dreaming with Steve Roach" will occur in Flagstaff, Arizona on Saturday October 25 at 6 PM. Seating is limited to 200 people at this great-sounding indoor amphitheater performance space. This show will almost certainly sell-out, so we recommend you buy your tickets now. |