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Possible Planet

by Steve Roach

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Garret Moore
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Garret Moore Connections to places we experience that go beyond conventional places I find in Steve's works. My imagination travels to places no one can know, but Steve's works always have helped me travel and recall travels that connect within and beyond. A sacrament for my soul. This album, no different than his many profound sonic journeys goes into my sacred bundle. I will take this with me wherever I am in this and other worlds.
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pf22 This is absolutely superb; gently breathing and organic, undergirded by a sense of menace and foreboding, the album immerses you in its beautifully constructed other-worldly environment. One of Steve’s very best creations!
Gary Figueroa
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Gary Figueroa Steve Roach manages again take me under his mystic wing on a journey of incredible discovery... A discovery of perception via his musical genius in electronic music. Filled with subtle coloring, 'Possible Planet' makes for a haunting listen that demands I keep my third eye wide open and my etheric body light and ready to travel. Chilling and gorgeous. Favorite track: First Murmer.
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First Murmer 16:01
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Gestation 31:26
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Cell Memory 25:52

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This pivotal long-form soundworld work pulls back the layers and increases the magnification to reveal a truly organic, analog-based core sound at a level not heard before in Steve's music. The metaphor of emerging lifeforms on a possible planet sets the mood for the three movements presented as a continuous immersive zone. "Wet", "shimmering", "cellular" and "diaphanous" are some words that could describe this living-breathing soundscape.

"While this long from zoneworld was created between December 2004 and May 2005, it developed into a pivotal new release for me. It's also included in The Dreamtime Box because it represents a parallel in some ways to "Looking For Safety" from DREAMTIME RETURN. As an artist if you live long enough to draw a line back in time, the recurring themes can link up to create an interesting graph of stylistic confluence. These two pieces, POSSIBLE PLANET and "Looking For Safety" (recorded in 1986) are at similar points on that graph, with many years in-between them and created in very different circumstances, but still sharing the same air. "During my 'analog rebirth' (see below) this desire started emerging to create a kind of soundscape environment which portrayed an undefined life form as it's just starting to emerge from the primordial soup on some distant planet. The sounds were forming in my imagination and were brought to life as you hear them across three movements. This set the mood for the idea of expressing the emerging, evolving sense of consciousness coming into form."

The Process... "I have always had a visceral connection to the instruments I choose as the main creative tools. Sonically POSSIBLE PLANET is the result of an analog rebirth that started for me in the Fall of 2004. A series of events created an obsession in my imagination and within my ears to hear and create from pure analog syntheizers, a connection to my early days on the Arp 2600. Growing restless with digital to analog converted of virtual analog, frozen waveforms of romplers I wanted to feel the current coming right out of the wall, and shape it from that point forward. POSSIBLE PLANET was created completely on a modular analog system which I assembled over a five-month period. As the sonic life forms were evolving, the system that was creating it was evolving as well, in order for the changes to occur. I new module would arrvie that day and by that night it was absorbed into the system. This was also a great metaphor for the themes of the emerging cellular life forms I was dreaming into. In order to remove the reliable and familiar modes of working, I eliminated a few basics: no MIDI, keyboards of any kind, or computers for composition and editing. It was all about twisting knobs, feeling it in my fingertips and coaxing the current into the desired direction. POSSIBLE PLANET was recorded during three live sessions. Each session would start after several days of creating and learning the nuances of a 'living' patch I had created, from which the soundforms were drawn."

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released June 21, 2013

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Steve Roach Tucson, Arizona

As a pioneering cornerstone of ambient-atmospheric-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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