Artist: |
Steve Roach |
Title: |
Steve Roach Recordings 1982 ltd Vinyl LP
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Format: |
Vinyl LP |
Barcode: |
769791958890 |
Catalogue number: |
VODD139SR.1 |
SKU: |
WA-29117284 |
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Genre: |
Ambient
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Limited edition of 200. Composer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Roach (born in 1955 in California) is a longstanding leader in contemporary electronic music, drawing on the beauty and power of the earth's landscapes to create lush, meditative soundscapes influential on the emergence of ambient and trance. At the age of 20, inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis, he taught himself to play synthesizer. After being a member of Doug Lynner's Moebius in the late '70s and early '80s, he began recording as a solo artist in 1982, and self-released his classic album Now that year, with distribution by Eurock. One year later Roach released another classic recording on Domino Records called Traveler. As with Don Slepian, Roach then signed to Fortuna Records and released several LPs and tapes. With Structures from Silence (1984) his music began taking enormous strides; the album's expansive and mysterious atmosphere was inspired directly by the natural beauty of the southwestern U.S. With subsequent works, including 1986's three-volume Quiet Music series, Roach honed his approach, developing his dense, swirling textures and hypnotic rhythms akin to environmental sound sculptures. In 1988, inspired by Peter Weir's 1977 film The Last Wave, Roach journeyed to the Australian outback and gathered field recordings of aboriginal life for what would become his widely acknowledged masterpiece, the double album Dreamtime Return (1988). A year later, he teamed up with percussionist Mich"l Shrieve and guitarist David Torn for The Leaving Time, an experiment in ambient jazz. After relocating to the desert outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, Roach established his own recording studio, Timeroom, and in the years to follow grew increasingly prolific, creating both as a solo artist and in tandem with artists including Robert Rich, Mich"l Stearns, Jorge Reyes, and Kevin Braheny -- in all, close to two dozen major works in the 1990s alone, all of them located at different points on the space-time continuum separating modern technology and primitive music. Since 2000 his enormous creative output, live concerts, and sonic innovations remain at a high level. This LP includes all the tracks from the legendary debut tape Now, plus the previously unreleased "Emotion Revealed."
WA-29117888,"Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream with this 11-CD box set gathering all 11 volumes in the classic Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers series. It's packed with Eastern-tinged rock, pop, and folk from the hippie heyday of the late '60s and early '70s, as well as the more recent psychedelic revival. Featuring over 200 tracks from acts from both sides of the Atlantic, as well as India, Germany, Sweden, Holland, Australia, and elsewhere, it comes complete with an 84-page full-color booklet offering background info, detailed biographies, full discographies, and rare photos, making it a truly essential trip back to psychedelia's incense-shrouded golden age. Includes tracks by Ray Brown & Moonstone, Linn County, J. K. & Co., Omega Redstar, The Basement Wall, Abacus, Br÷selmaschine, Gualbert, Darius, Blonde on Blonde, The Pretty Things, The Frederic, The Flames, July, West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Fraternity of Man, The Misty Wizards, Ramases, C.O.B., Lord Sitar, The Vampires' Sound Incorporation, U.S. '69, Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty, The Paper Garden, Meic Stevens, State of Micky & Tommy, The Ghost, Mandrake Memorial, 1st Century, People, Sagram, Bobby Callender, Mushroom's God, The Orient Express, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, Erkin Koray, Popol Vuh, Brainticket, Chocolate Watch Band, Big Jim Sullivan, Dr. Timothy Leary, The Mops, The Amboy Dukes, S.t. Mik"l, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Saffron, Truth, United States of Existence, Train, The Third Rail, Hurdy Gurdy, The Mystic Astrologic Crystal Band, Chim Kothari, Them, The Storybook, Krokodil, Mecki Mark Men, Stunt's Blue Leg Expedition, The Ugly Ducklings, Johnny Thompson Quintet, Moonkyte, Dantalian's Chariot, Nick Carter, The Twilights, The Folkswingers, Ananda Shankar, The New Tweedy Brothers, Wizz Jones, Kuni Kawachi & Flower Travellin' Band, Full Moon Band, A Little Bit of Sound, The Lemon Pipers, Mehrpoojah, Popera Cosmic, The Book of Am, Shocking Blue, The Poppy Family, Magic Carpet, Wendy Kasselman, Elyse Weinberg, Calendula, Montreal, Fit & Limo, Pentangle, Red Chair Fadeaway, Sheila Chandra, Sally Eaton, The Wyld Olde Souls, Kali Bahlu, Tomorrow, Shiny Gnomes, The Fox, The Cosmic Gardens, The Nova Local, Family, Joseph, Cheops, 3 Hⁿr-El, Grail, T°mrerclaus, Paroni Paakkunainen, Magna Carta, Click, Catharsis, The Fallen Angels, Violeta de Outono, The David, Euclid, The Unspoken Word, Oriental Sunshine, Wolfgang Dauner Quintet, Bit 'a Sweet, Flower Travellin' Band, Tales of Justine, Saddhu Brand, Oregon, Lawson & 4 More, Pregnant Insomnia, The Mirage, Brand X, The Churchills, Bill Plummer & The Cosmic Brotherhood, Boeing Duveen & The Beautiful Soup, David Hemmings, Gates of Freedom, The Koala, Blossom Toes, 101 Strings, Greenwood, Curlee & Thompson, The Forum Quorum, Iron Butterfly, John Renbourn, Charlie & Esdor, The Living Room, The Seventh Seal, Balsara & His Singing Sitars, Humble Pie, Quintessence, Sri Atma, Apocalypse, No Strange, Gandalf, The Zodiac, The Surprise Symphony, Universe, Alex, The Dave Pike Set, Gßbor Szab≤, The Superfine Dandelion, The Hobbits, Chad & Jeremy, Pierrot Lunaire, J. A. Seazer, Galliard, Shawn Phillips, Brian Bennett, Sopwith Camel, Rick Hayward, The Honeydew, The Flower Pot, The Sugar Shoppe, Doug McArthur, Rebecca and the Sunny Brook Farmers, William Truckaway, The Ceyleib People, Twinn Connexion, The Free Spirits, The World of Oz, The Virgin Sleep, Tony Scott, Chris Thompson, Volker Kriegel, Indo-British Ensemble, Raw, The Panbers, The Whatt Four, Zoot Money, The Morgans, The Lewis and Clarke Expedition, Gordon Jackson, Friend & Lover, Sagittarius, and Blue Cheer.