Steve Roach - As It Is (CD)

Release Date: 05/14/21

A revelatory experience of mystical, captivating electronic music from this American pioneer.

AS IT ISis a revelatory experience of mystical, captivating electronic music. Filled with texture and subtle nuance, this is a spacious album of organic analog electronic music with a breath and heartbeat — a simmering, churning, moving appointment with reality traveling the soul’s pathway of renewal.

The album maps a hero’s journey, taking the immersed, active listener out of consensus reality through deeply secluded personal spaces, suspended soundworlds, through tears to eventually emerge revitalized.

“It’s a deep engagement exploring the psychology of sound,” Steve describes, “It expands consciousness creating meaning out of sonic abstraction. From the years of feedback from my audience, it’s clear they immerse themselves in this psychological spiritual state within my music. These soundworlds offer nourishment and renewal along with a greater, more expansive state; at the same time I continue to discover a deeply cultivated connection to a core awareness.”

AS IT ISplaces the listener in the center of life’s mystery, awe, excitement, pathos, sadness, longing, and power. True art offers honest transformational emotional engagement. This work takes a bold step deeper into the time — and space — altering realms Steve has pioneered over all these many decades.

Artist Bio:

Steve Roach is a leading American pioneer in the evolution of ambient/electronic music, helping shape it into what it is today. Grammy nominated in 2018 and 2019 consecutively, his career spans four decades and nearly 150 releases. His massive catalog of landmark recordings includes Structures from Silence, Dreamtime Return and Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces. Drawing from a vast, unique and deeply personal authenticity, his albums are fueled by the momentum of a lifetime dedicated to the soundcurrent. Steve is an artist operating at the pinnacle of his artform, driven by a passion and unbroken focus enhancing the emotive, soul-stirring depth of his music.

CD in 6-panel digipak.