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Any fans of his around here besides me?
I'm listening to Immersion: 3 at the moment... absolutely SUBLIME!
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Hey JS!
I can't name all the Roach CDs I have, but I have Dynamic Stillness, Immersions 1, 3, and 4,
Volume 1 of Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces, Quiet Music, Slow Heat, Structures From Silence, DreamTime Return... and many more! I DEFINITELY love his dark ambient ("Atmospheric Space) music. I not into the "techno" type stuff, but that's just me.
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I LOVE his ambient / space stuff. All 3 of the original Quiet Music cassette releases are now available on a 3 CD set, finally. Structures From Silence, Magnificent Void, all are solid.
I have Now/Traveler on CD , they're less successful but have some moments. Stormwarning I thought was going to be great but, sequencers just aren't his thing. Outside of the ambient/space CD's, his stuff hasn't grabbed me.
Yeah... Magnificent Void is terrific!
I bought Storm Warning, expecting something really cool, but was GREATLY disappointed!
I have the original release of the Quiet Music CD, but never have picked up the 3-disc set.
I'm listening to Immersion: 3 at the moment, THAT is a 3-disc set!
If you got to steveroach.com, and click on "atmospheric space", and click on the first soundclip, it will cycle through ALL of the soundclips in the section... almost an HOUR of soundclips!
I've e-mailed Steve a number of times... a very nice fellow!
Oh... I also have Now/Traveler... I honestly can't remember what it sounds like, so I guess I'm going to have to give it a spin!
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Jim,
I have DREAMTIME RETURN and also his appearances (well, whatever) on various Hearts of Space programs, and several discs at home.
I dislike the techno stuff and prefer the slow-moving moody stuff myself and have been trying to find more of this kind of thing. I find it so enjoyable to just put it on and either watch something like 2001 with the sound off, or write, or just relax.
Certain folks who do this music just put me to sleep, but like Brian Eno with such things as Thursday Afternoon, I am intrigued by what composers can do with these slow-moving textural compositions. Not something I listen to all the time, but there's nothing else like it.
JS... Eno's "ambient" series is wonderful, especially On Land, which was the last in the series.
Thursday Afternoon is fantastic, but DEFINITELY not for everyone!
Too bad Michael Stears won't return to his roots, and release another CD.... I would LOVE it if he would perform another work on the Serge!!!!
Oh... and HArold Budd's release, entitled The Pearl is ASTONISHING, especially track 5("Lost in the Humming Air")!
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I'll divert even further! I'm listening to Farts O' Space... I mean Hearts of Space... at the moment, and they're playing a sub-genre called "Glacial Ambient", and this stuff is INCREDIBLE!!!
That Eno CD you just mentioned("Milk Sea") was feature of HOS a few weeks back.... great stuff!
I also have 3 of Mychael Danna's CDs... the WONDERFUL "Summerland(With Tim Clement), "Sirens"(excellent!), and "Skies"(or is it "Skys"?). All recommended!
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I have only one Roach album, Stream Of Thought with my countryman Erik Wøllo.
What do you mean with "his techno stuff"?
Has Michael Stearns stated that he won't release any more albums?
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Well... Stearns has kept pretty busy scoring rides for the past several years. His website hasn't had an update in over 5 years! You can't even ORDER stuff off his site anymore, which makes me very sad.
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Even though this thread IS about Steve Roach, I must say that nearly most "Space Music" releases pale in comparison to Stearns' Planetary Unfolding! An absolute Masterpiece!
I'm listening to M'Ocean at the moment, and the track "Vicki's Dance" is playing... you talk about SUBLIME!
FIRST BREATH.... You're not going to believe this... Last Friday night, I posted that I was listening to HOS, and they were playing "Glacial Ambient" music, and the first selections were ASTOUNDING... and it turns out that it was SILENT CURRENTS by ERIK WOLLO!!! I am DEFINITELY going to get that CD!!!
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