Steve Roach - The Reverent Sky

1. The Reverent Sky 24:47
2. Sensual Sonic 11:17
3. The Nurturing Ground 25:57
4. Heart of Compassion 12:13

As a significant metaphor in Steve Roach's sonic milieu, the ever-evolving sky helped inspired these lush and enveloping emotionally engaging atmospheric meditations. The album’s four longform compositions slowly unfurl harmonic wonder and timeless spectral melodies balanced with grounded mantra-like rhythmic elements; all combine with a yearning to merge into infinite realms of feeling and expansion.The dynamic spectrums with the music reveals a profound sense of intimacy, grace, beauty, longing and mystery in a style Roach refers to as ‘essentialism.’ He reflects, “This is about retaining only what is vital and essential to the creation of each piece as a pure and deeply emotive sonic sensory experience. The evolution of essentialism in my artistic philosophy is fully present in the recent releases As it Is, Rest of Life, Reflections in Repose and One Day of Forever."
Born from his hand-sculpting of sound, the music is formed on hardware instruments. They are the heart of his unique and personal palette of colors which paint the reverent sky; these tools include the Oberheim Xpander and OB-6, Mellotron - Resch Edition, Hydrasynth Deluxe, Novation Bass Station II, Nord Lead 2X, Yamaha CP33 Electric Grand and for the first time in his work, the innovative Osmose Synth by Expressive E.
Manifesting pure atmospheric reverie balanced with a timeless pulse, Roach remains a constant innovator in the world of ambient electronic music. His work connects and expresses the world around us and the realms within.