The Ancestor Circle

by Steve Roach - Jorge Reyes

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Resonances & Words A truly masterpiece.
What a joy for the soul & body. Favorite track: Temple of Dust.

Gary Zaepfel I love the gentle musical waves of this recording. Great that it’s now available digitally.

RENOVATIO2020 the ancestors would have loved to hear this. Favorite track: Temple of Dust.

Ne Spesha Deep shamanic journey... Rare stuff... Thank you!

pileated31 This is one of Steve's most heartfelt and sincerely inspired creative compositions. Have often re-visited my purchase of the original CD in 2014, and am now truly grateful for the digital release. Favorite track: Procession of the Ancestors.

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	1.	The Circle Opens 09:04
	2.	Memories Unsuspended 24:49
	3.	Espacio Escultorico 09:36
	4.	Spirit, Stone and Bone 04:19
	5.	Procession of the Ancestors 10:20
	6.	Temple of Dust 15:12

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Like the audio artifacts of a lost tribe, the studio source recordings that form this album’s foundation were uncovered in 2013 on a cryptically-marked set of tapes. Created the week before Roach & Reyes’ May 2000 concert at Tucson’s Temple of Music and Art, this is their last joint studio project as Reyes passed on to The Ancestor Circle in 2009.

Roach comments, “Jorge is still very much alive here in the circle where we always met with an unspoken language of sound constantly moving through us. As I completed this music now, adding new elements and evolving the arrangement, I could feel Jorge’s spirit listening and interacting with me in the studio, offering feedback or sometimes making his guttural sounds of agreement like he would do in the past when we were deep in the process of carving on a mix. Just as in previous magical studio and stage experiences, we are in the circle once again.”

Conjuring images of a primal futurism, this alchemical blending-of-sound is a ceremonial offering to the forgotten gods. The Ancestor Circle is a new tribal-ambient-electronic collaboration, the first recording from Roach & Reyes since Vine ~ Bark & Spore (Timeroom 2000). This is the lost chapter of a long soulful journey that has taken twists and turns in its unfoldment. The music feels steeped in a frothy mind-altering blend, waiting for years as the potency increased. Roach & Reyes. combined their instinctual nature — developed over almost a decade of worldwide live and studio adventures — leading up to the core of what became The Ancestor Circle. It is in this circle that their sound is unearthed from deep within their primordial soundworld, where prehistory meets future-tech creating a sound impossible to carbon date.

For thousands of years, music was created to assist entrance to expanded states of consciousness, support a passage of life, birth and death and invoke the gods, spirits, and allies. While the abundance of today’s entertainment-music has lost this powerful inner core, on The Ancestor Circle it is fully reinstated. This is a new “medicine music” as it should be: a probing visceral experience with the power to illuminate and shroud in mystery, digging deep into zones hidden within the psyche. It offers a potent realm of renewal for those seeking an unfiltered, cathartic rinse-down of today’s technological, modern world; it helps hit the reset button of perception.

Rising up from a dark shroud of night to embrace life, an ancient voice chants in serpentine ecstasy only to subside and hover next to a slow realm of eternal time drawn from electronics, percussion, prehispanic flutes, ocarinas, other acoustic instruments and silence. When the sound dissolves beyond recognition, a subconscious landscape arises, whispering of faded visions painted on stone, echoing on studio walls, of times gone by and times to come. Roach & Reyes are still here bringing us messages from the infinite.
Artist Bios

Jorge Reyes took an ethno-musicological approach to music-making on 20 solo albums; released throughout the late 80s, 90s, and 00s these albums all has a special emphasis on indigenous and shamanic traditions from Reyes’ native Mexico. After years of tirelessly performing across Europe, he met Roach in the early 90s at a festival on the Canary Island of Lanzarote. Along with the Vine ~ Bark & Spore collaboration with Roach, Reyes & Roach teamed with Spanish electric guitarist Suso Saiz for two mid-90s albums from their group project, Suspended Memories (Music From The Hearts of Space 1993 & 1994). Reyes passed away on February 7, 2009.

Steve Roach is a pioneering cornerstone of ambient-atmospheric-electronic music with over 100 albums to his name. Since the early 80s, Roach has approached music like a medicine man approaching the void: engaging the challenge, uncovering new mysteries, and bringing them back to share with the world. From the expansive, time-suspending spaces reflecting his spiritual home in Arizona to the fire breathing, ethno-ambient expressions woven from all things electric and organic, Roach’s long list of groundbreaking recordings are fueled by his prolific nature and uncompromising approach.

Release Date: November 4 2014

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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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discography

Reflections In Repose

Mar 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
DREAMTIME RETURN (30th Anniversary Remastered Edition)

Mar 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
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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