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Steve Roach
US ambient/electronic
Since 1955
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Steve Roach (born February 16, 1955) is an American composer and performer of ambient and electronic music, whose recordings are informed by his impressions of environment, perception, flow and space. His work has been influential in the trance and new-age genres.
Roach has received two Grammy Award nominations for New Age Album of the Year: His 2017 album Spiral Revelation for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards., and 2018's Molecules of Motion for the 61st Annual Grammy Awards. His double album, Dreamtime Return (1988), was listed in 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die.
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Steve Roach, né à La Mesa en Californie en 1955, est un musicien et compositeur de musique électronique américain.
Ses premiers albums, sortis au début des années 1980, sont dans la lignée des productions de Tangerine Dream, avec un tempo rapide et des séquenceurs. Il évolue ensuite vers une musique plus typiquement californienne, basée sur des nappes très ambient, proche de la musique new age de l'époque. Son style se caractérise plutôt par une ambiance sombre, et l'apport, dès la fin des années 1980, d'éléments ethniques, tels que des percussions ou le didgeridoo, dont il apprend à jouer lors de ses voyages en Australie, bien avant la vogue de cet instrument en Occident.
Steve Roach est souvent inspiré par le désert du sud-ouest américain (Western Spaces, Desert Solitaire) et par le sentiment de solitude (The World's Edge, The Magnificent Void). Il cite l'album Timewind de Klaus Schulze comme une référence.
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Discography
Albums
- 1982 Now
- 1983 Traveler
- 1984 Structures From Silence
- 1986 Quiet Music 1
- 1986 Quiet Music 2
- 1986 Quiet Music 3
- 1986 Empetus
- 1987 Western Spaces
- 1988 The Leaving Time
- 1988 Dreamtime Return
- 1989 Desert Solitaire
- 1990 Australia: Sound of the Earth
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- 1990 Strata
- 1992 Now / Traveler
- 1992 Soma
- 1992 World's Edge
- 1993 Origins
- 1994 The Dream Circle
- 1994 Artifacts
- 1995 Kiva
- 1995 Well of Souls
- 1996 Halcyon Days
- 1996 The Magnificent Void
- 1997 On This Planet
- 1997 Cavern of Sirens
- 1998 Slow Heat
- 1998 Dust to Dust
- 1998 Ascension of Shadows: Meditations for the Millennium
- 1999 Atmospheric Conditions
- 1999 Body Electric
- 1999 Light Fantastic
- 2000 Circles & Artifacts
- 2000 The Serpent’s Lair
- 2000 Vine ~ Bark & Spore
- 2000 Midnight Moon
- 2000 Prayers to the Protector
- 2001 Blood Machine
- 2001 Core
- 2001 Time of the Earth
- 2001 Early Man
- 2002 Darkest Before Dawn
- 2002 Streams & Currents
- 2002 Trance Spirits
- 2002 InnerZone
- 2003 Life Sequence
- 2003 Texture Maps: The Lost Pieces, Volume 3
- 2003 Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces
- 2004 Fever Dreams
- 2004 Holding the Space: Fever Dreams II
- 2004 Spirit Dome
- 2004 Mantram
- 2004 Places Beyond: The Lost Pieces 4
- 2005 New Life Dreaming
- 2005 Possible Planet
- 2005 Somewhere Else
- 2006 Immersion : One
- 2006 Terraform
- 2006 Proof Positive
- 2006 Kairos: The Meeting of Time and Destiny
- 2006 Immersion : Two
- 2007 Fever Dreams III
- 2007 Immersion : Three
- 2008 A Deeper Silence
- 2008 Arc of Passion
- 2008 Landmass
- 2008 Nada Terma
- 2008 Stream of Thought
- 2009 Immersion: Four
- 2009 Dynamic Stillness
- 2009 Afterlight
- 2009 Destination Beyond
- 2010 The Shaman’s Heart II: The Healing Journey
- 2010 Dream Tracker
- 2010 Nightbloom
- 2010 Sigh of Ages
- 2011 Immersion Five: Circadian Rhythms
- 2011 Sounds From the Inbetween
- 2011 The Desert Inbetween
- 2011 The Road Eternal
- 2012 Back to Life
