Steve Roach & Robert Logan - Second Nature (CD)

Release Date: 04/29/16

Romantic minimalism, a nuanced shadowplay between sparse, ambient-atmospherics and processed-piano tone paintings.

Pushing the boundaries of perception-expanding music, Roach and Logan release two vastly different transmissions of powerful emotion and exploration.Biosonic’s elegant futurism and Second Nature’s romantic minimalism are distinct yet linked through a passion for engaging, subtle body-mind states. The former’s darkly ecstatic, deeply-layered, electro-neural atmosphere contrasts with the latter’s nuanced, sparse, ambient-atmospherics and processed-piano tone paintings.

Second Natureis a shadowplay of gentle reflection and repose. The tone and warmth of processed electric grand piano mixed with atmospheric synth textures are the grounding point for an emotive reflective watercourse of harmony, melody, texture and space woven together with an innate human sense of tension and release.

In late 2015, Logan visited Roach’s Timehouse studio in Arizona for a creative recording session which inspired this project. Roach says, “Second Nature emerged directly from instinct, the call and response to the moment between two artists interacting together in the studio for the first time. It’s a ‘less is more’ minimalist statement. The balance of ambiguity and quiet reflection is present in this set of pieces of fleeting emotional weight. Over three days, the music emerged without hesitation. The album flowed forth as if by second nature.”

Biosonic and Second Natureare two powerful, distinct yet interconnected releases. While in dramatic contrast to each other, the potency of the music on these releases is a testament to the agility that exists between these two artists. It reveals their immediate response to a universe of emotion and stimulated mental states felt and expressed in this pure transmission. The music celebrates the energy of being fully alive, engaging the senses, opening to a vast and fascinating world of Biosonics: body, mind and heart sound art for TODAY.

CD in 4-panel digipak.