Emerging from a place of deep peace, expansiveness and renewal, Rest of Life is Steve Roach’s new 134-minute opus to quietude. With a graceful, nurturing quality expressed in five different reflective moods, Disc One is 70 minutes of 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 Music release notes years ago, the essence 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 title Rest 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 Life revealing itself in subtle yet dramatic ways.”
released February 24, 2023
DISC I 1 Sit with Me 7:49 2 Rest of Life 22:55 3 Future Informing 9:46 4 Softly Spoken, Deeply Heard 16:37 5 Stream of Forever 16:42
DISC II 1 The Knowing Place 60:14
CREATED BY STEVE ROACH AT THE TIMEHOUSE — BAJA, ARIZONA, STUDIO 504 — AUSTIN, TEXAS,
AND THE EAGLE’S NEST — AMADO, ARIZONA THROUGHOUT 2022
INSTRUMENTS: NORD LEAD 2X, NORD LEAD 3, NORD WAVE 2, OBERHEIM XPANDER, OBERHEIM
OB-X8, OBERHEIM OB6, SOLINA STRING SYNTH, HYDRASYNTH DELUXE AND EXPLORER, MOOG ONE
ALL TRACKS COMPOSED BY STEVE ROACH. “THE KNOWING PLACE” FOUNDATION CREATED BY STEVE ROACH
AND LINDA KOHANOV — FIVE-STRING ELECTRIC VIOLIN/VIOLA
MASTERED BY HOWARD GIVENS, SPOTTED PECCARY STUDIOS NW — PORTLAND, OREGON
COVER IMAGE PROCESSING AND GRAPHIC DESIGN BY SAM ROSENTHAL
GEAR SUPPORT GRATITUDE: GLEN DARCY AT ASM FOR HYDRASYNTH AND MARCUS RYLE FOR OBERHEIM.
SPECIAL THANKS TO SERENA GABRIEL, NATHAN YOUNGBLOOD AND FRANK BEISSEL OF
THE SOUNDQUEST MUSIC TEAM
©2023 SOUNDQUEST MUSIC, BMI
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