Steve Roach - Rest Of Life (CD)

Release Date: 03/10/23A graceful, nurturing quality expressed in impressionistic, emotion-infused electronic soundscapesEmerging from a place of deep peace, expansiveness and renewal,Rest Of Life is Steve Roach's new 130-minute opus to quietude. With a graceful, nurturing quality expressed in five different reflective moods, the first 70 minutes (Disc One) is impressionistic, emotion-infused electronic soundscapes. As Steve reflects, 'I consciously tuned into the soul tone of Structures from Silence and Quiet Music. Not in a nostalgic sense but exploring and expressing where this feeling lives in me now in the depth of myself at this point in time. As stated in the Quiet Musicrelease notes years ago, the heart of this deep listening occurs not only within the experience of the music itself but also within the place that you are after the music fades and you return to the silence, this rest of life.'Disc Two, 'The Knowing Place,' embraces a vast majestic textural landscape that plays with the unexpected harmony of chance and expanding time. The single, extended composition evolves over 60 minutes: gently ecstatic mystical spaces emerge and finally surrender to a deeper embrace of living, breathing, stately thematic chordal passages and melodic interweaves that include processed viola performed by Linda Kohanov. The spacious symphonic arc and emotional resonance of the track culminates in the re-emergence and blooming of the main 'Knowing Place' theme returning to the source of a restorative journey, fully integrated and renewed.'The titleRest Of Life,' Steve reveals, 'is drawn from my relationship to time itself. The priceless value of time and how we engage, rest, immerse, play with, step out of, create and love within our precious time on this planet. Every day I feel the Rest Of Liferevealing itself in subtle yet dramatic ways.'2CD in 6-panel digipakMedia Label: Projekt Genre: Ambient/Experimental Run Time: 134:00 mins