Zones, Drones & Atmospheres

by Steve Roach

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53Guitarman This album will grow on you. Listen in headphones or earbuds. It will blow your mind. Steve has so many amazing textures and dimensions on this release. It's hard to pick a favorite track. Probably in his top 5, if there is such a thing.

csteinke All the tracks are gorgeous! Thanks Steve! Favorite track: Shadow Realms.

aurelien EXCELLENT ALBUM.du grand art de la part de steve roach

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	1.	The Living Space 14:28
	2.	Breathing Light 07:06
	3.	Neomorphic 11:03
	4.	Shadow Realms 07:49
	5.	Immerse Indigo 05:54
	6.	The Perfection of Solitude 16:18
	7.	Holding Light 09:53
	8.	Submerged 01:13:04
	9.	Isolation Station 58:04

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Please note : The Digital edition of this release extends the experience to nearly three and a half hours. The CD is pieces 1-7.

In a masterful expression of subtle, potent ambient-electronic minimalism, Steve Roach’s newest release activates an internal opening of the mythic imagination. The slowly unfolding interweave of zones, drones and atmospheres displays compelling, deeply evocative textural pieces with an interconnected sense of mystery, awe and wonder.

The gently engulfing interplay between the album’s nine (7 on the CD) pieces provides contrasts of shadow and light, shimmering beauty and alluring soundscapes stretched into infinity. The revealing of the music unfolds into stately sonic formations of hypnotic weavings, hazy atmospheric swirls and murmuring reverberations. Roach establishes each soundworld through engaging a multitude of techniques and hardware-based instruments with fluidity and grace.

Manifesting from the essential foundational DNA of ambient music, this is an album of elegant, deeply nuanced audio alchemy. The expansive minimalism reveals a shadowy and emotional spaciousness that meditates on the enduring essence and power of sound and our place in the center of it.

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released January 1, 2022

Created by Steve Roach at the Timehouse, Baja Arizona.

Tools: Eurorack, Moog format analog modular, TTSH Arp 2600 and 1604 sequencer clones, Progue, Nord Lead 2, 3 & 4, Oberheim Xpander, OB8 & DSX, Moog One, Hydrasynth Deluxe

Mastered by Howard Givens — Spotted Peccary Studios NW, Portland, Oregon

Photography — Steve Roach
Front cover design — Nathan Youngblood
Graphic design — Sam Rosenthal

Special thanks to Glen Darcey at Hydrasynth, Chris Meyer, Kyle Wright and Linda Kohanov

A subtle alternate mix of Neomorphic first appeared on the release Painting in the Dark. When building this release and experimenting with various track sequences this version of the piece felt like it had to live here in this flow.

Isolation Station was first heard in a shorter form on the release Texture Maps, for years I wanted to present its fully long formed realization as it appears here.

©2022 Soundquest Music, BMI

Review by Marius-Christian Burcea:

`Zones, Drones & Atmospheres` is an extensive opus that stretches the audience's ability to recalibrate sensitivity to time and space. Steve Roach has demonstrated, once again, his mastery of sonic persuasion by engaging our attention in deep, shifting states refracted into a glittering web of textural harmonies and toned-down sequences. The nearly 3.5 hour album proposes a musical descending into the core of our being, inward diving unveiling the transcendent power of solitude. This new immersive recording interweaves dark octaves and luminous resonances to express the paradoxical nature of the unfathomable mystery within us.

A feeling of time slowing to an almost stop arises while listening piece by piece, culminating with the final two long tracks where the music sounds timeless and unearthly but strangely intimate. The flow of sensations, emotions, thoughts are absorbed in soundwaves washing onto and dissolving in the invisible shore of awareness.

In times of turbulence, an occasional detaching from the social context can be healthy and rewarding. `Zones, Drones & Atmospheres` encourages inward-focused confinement that, pursued by choice, proves to be insightful and restorative.

Review by Peter Thelen, Expose

Since the early 80s, Steve Roach has been releasing powerful ambient chronicles of the imagination, forward-looking minimalist music like no other before it, although his music has served as guidance and inspiration for many who came after.
Roach’s first release of 2022 offers a wellspring of expressive soundscapes that encompass all of what the title bluntly suggests: zones of alluring beauty and nuanced shades of light and darkness; drones that offer a persuasive vision that engulfs the listener completely; and atmospheres that shimmer and weave, swirling in hazy heady textures and opening out into the vast reaches of the cosmos.

Those familiar with his previous ambient works, both short and long form pieces, might not be too surprised by what’s on offer here, given that it all fits into Roach’s expected and expansive trajectory — dreamy sounds that meet the mysterious and cavernous reverberations of space that fit within no existing genre of music other than to say that its essence is explorative and, by virtue of its presentation, hypnotic.

The compact disc version contains seven evocative and mystical tracks of varying length, from the near-fifteen minute opener “The Living Space,” where the dark sky breathes freely as stars curiously light up the heavens with beautiful sonic artifacts, to the dense atmospheres and dark growling textures of “Immerse Indigo,” the disc's shortest track at six minutes. With “The Perfection of Solitude” one will hear deep electronic pulses across a gentle field of shaded atmospherics, while “Neomorphic” takes the listener on a guided journey through the depths of space, with subtle flashes of ancient tonal color driving the abstraction forward.

Downloaders will get a couple extra cuts that are not featured on the CD, the 73-minute “Submerged” and the near-hour-long “Isolation Station”; both are long-form pieces that immerse the listener in slow waves and shimmering cascades, meditations that are all but guaranteed to send one down the eternal spiral of slumber and beyond.

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As a pioneering cornerstone of progressive ambient-electronic music, internationally-renowned artist Steve Roach has dedicated five decades to exploring myriad soundworlds that connect with a timeless source of inspiration.

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One Day of Forever

Oct 2024
New Life Dreaming - 2024 Remaster

Aug 2024
Parallels - theAdelaidean / Steve Roach

Jul 2024
Reflections In Repose

May 2024
The Saffron Sky

Apr 2024
Structures from Silence - 40th Anniversary Remaster

Feb 2024
Waves of Now

Jan 2024
The Desert Winds Of Change

Jan 2024
Stream of Thought

Nov 2023
Integration Being

Nov 2023
Sanctuary of Desire

Oct 2023
Alive in the City of Angels 2023

Jun 2023
Second Nature

May 2023
The Weaving Way

May 2023
Rest of Life

Feb 2023
Church of the Heavenly Rest - New York City

Dec 2022
Biosonic

Nov 2022
Blood Machine

Oct 2022
The Leaving Time

Oct 2022
Journey of One

Oct 2022
Essentials 1984-2004 Space and Time

Sep 2022
What Remains

Aug 2022
Dust to Dust

Jul 2022
Nautical Twilight - Frank Beissel - Steve Roach

May 2022
Trance Spirits - 2022 Remaster

May 2022
Streams and Currents

Apr 2022
Zones, Drones & Atmospheres

Jan 2022
Dynamic Stillness

Dec 2021
Beyond Earth & Sky

Nov 2021
Live at SoundQuest Fest 2021

Nov 2021
Body Electric

Oct 2021
AS IT IS

Oct 2021
Seeing Inside

Oct 2021
INTO THE MAJESTIC

Sep 2021
Early Man

Sep 2021
The Lost Pieces

Sep 2021
Monuments of Ecstasy

Sep 2021
The Serpent’s Lair

Sep 2021
Quiet Music (35th Anniversary Remastered 3-Hour Collection - 2021)

Apr 2021
Phoenix Rising

Apr 2021
The Ancestor Circle

Apr 2021
Temple of the Melting Dawn

Apr 2021
The Gong Prophet

Feb 2021
LiveStream 09 26 2020 The Desert Eternal

Nov 2020
A Soul Ascends

Oct 2020
TOMORROW

Oct 2020
Timeroom Livestream 8 - 22 - 2020

Sep 2020
Back To Life

Sep 2020
Inanna's Dream

Aug 2020
The Dream Circle 2020 Remastered Edition

Aug 2020
To The Threshold of Silence - Remastered 2020

Apr 2020
Santa Fe Live - Steve Roach / Rob Thomas

Apr 2020
Journeys to the Infinite

Mar 2020
The Sky Opens

Feb 2020
Remembrance In Waves

Feb 2020
The Long Night

Jan 2020
Quiet Music

Jan 2020
STILLPOINT

Dec 2019
Midnight Moon

Dec 2019
Trance Archeology

Nov 2019
Empetus - Expanded Digital Edition

Sep 2019
Bloom Ascension

Aug 2019
Asunder

Aug 2019
Tales From The Ultra Tribe

Jun 2019
HelioSphere

Feb 2019
Atmosphere for Dreaming

Dec 2018
Mercurius

Nov 2018
Electron Birth

Aug 2018
Return To The Dreamtime

Aug 2018
Nectar Meditation

May 2018
Molecules of Motion

May 2018
Slow Heat - 20th Anniversary Remastered Edition

May 2018
Future Flows

Apr 2018
Eclipse Mix

Aug 2017
Long Thoughts

Aug 2017
Nostalgia for the Future

Aug 2017
POV

Jul 2017
CORE - Legacy Edition

Jun 2017
Traveler

Jun 2017
THE PASSING

Feb 2017
The Early Years (rarities from the Empetus era)

Jan 2017
Fade To Gray

Dec 2016
Painting In The Dark

Dec 2016
Spiral Revelation

Dec 2016
Shadow Of Time

Aug 2016
This Place To Be

May 2016
immersion : two

Mar 2016
Live in Tucson - 79 min version

Jan 2016
Skeleton - Spiral Passage - Extended Version - Live In Tucson 02-14-15

Jan 2016
Alive In the Vortex

Dec 2015
VORTEX IMMERSION ZONE

Dec 2015
BLOODMOON RISING - NIGHT 1

Sep 2015
BLOODMOON RISING - NIGHT 4

Sep 2015
Bloodmoon Rising Complete 5 hour set

Sep 2015
Etheric Imprints

Jul 2015
KAIROS - The Meeting of Time and Destiny

May 2015
Skeleton Keys

May 2015
The Skeleton Collection - 2005 - 2015 Companion Disc

May 2015
BLOODMOON RISING - NIGHT 3

Apr 2015
Invisible - 70 Min version

Feb 2015
Emotions Revealed

Jan 2015
Invisible - Final Edition

Jan 2015
STRANDS

Oct 2014
BLOODMOON RISING - NIGHT 2

Oct 2014
The Delicate Beyond

Sep 2014
THE DESERT COLLECTION Volume One 2014

Jul 2014
The Delicate Forever

Jul 2014
Light Of Sundays

Dec 2013
At The Edge Of Everything - Live In The Netherlands

Dec 2013
Spiral Meditations

Dec 2013
Steve Roach & Jorge Reyes Live in Tucson - Year 2000 - EP release

Sep 2013
LIVE TRANSMISSION - 2 CD Release

Aug 2013
Day Out of TIme

Aug 2013
Possible Planet

Jun 2013
ULTRA IMMERSION CONCERT

Mar 2013
Rasa Dance - The Music Of Connection

Mar 2013
Today

Feb 2013
Soul Tones

Dec 2012
Sense

Dec 2012
Groove Immersion

Nov 2012
Circadian Rhythms - Immersion Five

Apr 2011
Steve Roach Live at SoundQuest Fest 2010

Feb 2011
Sigh Of Ages

Jul 2010
Dream Tracker

Jun 2010
Live at Grace Cathedral

Apr 2010
Destination Beyond

Sep 2009
Afterlight

Jul 2009
Immersion Four

Jun 2009
Nada Terma

Nov 2008
Arc of Passion

Jul 2008
Landmass

Jun 2008
A Deeper Silence

Feb 2008
immersion : three

Feb 2007
Fever Dreams III

Jan 2007
Storm Surge

Apr 2006
Immersion : One

Feb 2006
Proof Positive

Jan 2006
New Life Dreaming

May 2005
Mantram

Nov 2004
Fever Dreams

Jun 2004
Fever Dreams II

May 2004
Places Beyond - The Lost Pieces Four

Jan 2004
Life Sequence

Jun 2003
Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces - Complete Edition

Mar 2003
Darkest Before Dawn

Dec 2002
All is Now : Steve Roach Live 2002 - Sedona - Portland - Oakland - San Francisco - SFMOMA

Nov 2002
Texture Maps

Feb 2002
Core

Dec 2001
Pure Flow

Feb 2001
Vine, Bark & Spore - Roach - Reyes

Jun 2000
Ascension of Shadows Complete

Dec 1999
Atmospheric Conditions

Dec 1999
Truth & Beauty

Feb 1999
Stormwarning

Jan 1998
Slow Heat

Jan 1998
ARTIFACTS

Jun 1994
ORIGINS

Jun 1993
Worlds Edge

Mar 1992
DREAMTIME RETURN (High Definition Edition)

Jul 1988
Structures From Silence (30th Anniversary 3CD Remastered Edition)

Jul 1984
NOW

Feb 1982
Live In Tucson - Pinnacle Moments 02-14-2015

Jan 1981
POV2 : The Case For Square Waves While Searching For Happy Accidents

Jan 1980

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