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What Remains

by Steve Roach

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fyeahmetal If I wanted to point someone to Steve Roach's music, I'd start them here. This record spans some of Roach's signature styles, like the percolating synths in "Currents of Compassion", the dreamy abstraction of "Prometheus Passage", the tribal rhythms of "The Gone Place", and the elegiac majesty of "What Remains". It's stunning all around and guaranteed to make any day better. Favorite track: Currents of Compassion.
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53Guitarman It took awhile for me to want to buy this album. It's really grown on me
after more listening. Favorite track: The Gone Place.
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Caesar Roach has always been poised between ambient, new age, cosmic music and tribal impulses: nevertheless, he has always had something to say and has always done so with great class. A demonstration comes to us from this new album entitled What Remains. In the first track 'Currents Of Compassion' we find Roach at his best: synths accompany us on this cosmic journey beyond time and space with subtle rhythmic elements on the side.
www.versacrum.com/vs/2022/09/steve-roach-what-remains.html Favorite track: Currents of Compassion.
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What Remains is a dynamic confluence of sonic worlds — four interconnected passages that venture from floating sequencer woven elegant futurism, to yearning and mysterious tribal ambient, to conclude with the heart-wrenching, pure-atmospherics of the title track. This sonic odyssey reveals a masterful culmination of the different electronic musics Roach has developed and explored over the last forty years.

Deep emotion, soulful longing and vast interweaves of sonic epiphanies of grace and beauty are immersed and nourished in a balance of darkness and light. The four distinct — yet allied — movements progress as one stylist space opens to the next, each emerging from the resonance of the previous piece.

What Remains is a powerful meditation upon Steve’s journey of one. “As I grow deeper into time,” Steve reflects, “my devotion to deeply engaging in this creative life progressively increases the potency to burn away that which is no longer needed. The shedding of old skins, patterns and perceptions have to be examined. What remains infuses the art with this essence. This transcendental state inherently evolves as one is tempered through the priorities of time. There are no boundaries around what I do. I venture to the place I feel in my imagination or discover while creating the music; it is how it wants to unfold. I desire to keep pushing further and deeper into places that are connected to what I’ve done while also pushing me into new worlds to explore. As an artist, I use these instruments with the agility to move between a lot of dynamic soundworlds. Like an actor, I inhabit different roles and disappear into them. That creative experience embodies all these incredible emotional, spiritual and psychological spaces as a daily meditation upon what remains vital.”

Sean Williams, New York Times best-selling author: “The final track, ‘What Remains’ is a great pay-off to what feels like a quartet of distinct answers to the question ‘What Remains?’ While the title doesn’t have a question mark, it’s easy to feel it in the music. Everything remains, and nothing. Consonance, and dissonance. At times driving, relentless, urgent, and at others: fractures, and healing. This closing track has a deep sense of lamentation and acceptance, of rolling time and final breaths, bringing the endless moment around full circle. This is classic Steve, really, my favourite kind of his music, with heavy, repeating chords holding court over bottomless depths of nuance. How he manages such perfect clarity with such dense reverberance, I don’t know — but I feel as though every momentary sound is caught and held forever, right up to the last tiny tintinnabulation.”
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releases August 5, 2022

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released August 5, 2022

Created in 2022 by Steve Roach using only analog and digital instruments, mixing console, hardware effects, Eurorack modular, large format analog modular and ocarina

Graphic design by Sam Rosenthal
Mastered by Howard Givens — Spotted Peccary
Studios NW, Portland, Oregon
Special thanks to Frank Beissel for additional
recording support, Chris Meyer, Tony Ober,
Glen Darcy - ASM for the Hydrasynth support,
1010 Music - Black Box support,
and Linda, Flint, Mica & Ravi.

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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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