New Life Dreaming - 2024 Remaster

by Steve Roach

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Arcane Synthetic Mesmerising. Thank you Steve Roach 🙏🖤✨

Allister Thompson Really great to have this new master of what to me is Roach's best album, and that's saying something. Givens's new master does really bring out nuances and smoothen things even further. The opening track, with its huge, sparse waves of sound, used to scare the crap out of one of my (now deceased) cats, but it's always been one of my favourite ambient music pieces. Favorite track: Perfect Dream (2024 Remaster).

d york This is literally the first Steve Roach album I heard when I joined eMusic in 2006. Many years and SR albums later, this one remains a favorite. There is something truly special about the emotions and feelings evoked by this music. 💓 Favorite track: Perfect Dream (2024 Remaster).

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	1.	Perfect Dream (2024 Remaster) 15:44
	2.	Where I Live (2024 Remaster) 14:04
	3.	The Ancients' Way (2024 Remaster) 15:02
	4.	Deep Sky Time (2024 Remaster) 09:20
	5.	In the Eye of Noche (2024 Remaster) 14:38

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From the first chord of "Perfect Dream" to the final fade of "In the Eye Of Noche," New Life Dreaming presents an unbroken feeling of connection to the earth bound meditations found on Steve’s 1988 classic Dreamtime Return. Created between 2004 and 2005, New Life Dreaming is an electronic ambient release that envelops the listener in a diaphanous realm of sound, representing an essential chapter in the book of Steve's sonic vision. Since its release, the music has found its place with listeners among other classics such as Structures From Silence, Quiet Music and Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces.

"The desire to tap into the soundcurrent from which the Dreamtime Return music was drawn seemed inevitable as its presence within me grew even deeper. It's a living, breathing space which has continued to flow down deep over the years. As I re-opened the portal to this dreamtime space, the creative urges and subtle epiphanies to follow the path into this new life dreaming were fully activated, connecting me back into this indescribable alluring realm.”

Exposé wrote: New Life Dreaming features five expansive drone pieces, extended-length textural developments that slowly evolve as they grow and change, looping and breathing while slowly enveloping the listener ever deeper into subconscious states. Within the haunting, shimmering dreamlike sequences that bask the listener in a gentle and warm blanket of sound, echoey voices fill the background, drifting in and out of phase like a morphing multicolored morning fog over a lysergic desert landscape. The effect is almost paralyzing; each piece takes you deeper until one arrives at a safe and still point where there is no thought, only experience. This is easily Roach’s finest floating ambient work in recent memory.

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released August 3, 2024

ALL MUSIC CREATED, RECORDED AND MIXED BY STEVE ROACH AT
THE RAVEN'S NEST & THE TIMEROOM TUCSON, 2004-2005

STEVE ROACH - OBERHEIM OB-8, EMU, NORD & MODULAR SYNTHS,
PARKER FLY DELUXE GUITAR

IN THE EYE OF NOCHE: JENNIFER GRAIS - VOICE
SAM ROSENTHAL - PROCESSED & SAMPLED PIANO

THE ANCIENTS' WAY: BYRON METCALF - RHYTHMIC SOURCES

2024 REMASTER BY HOWARD GIVENS

PHOTOS & DESIGN CONCEPT BY STEVE
GRAPHIC DESIGN BY NATHAN YOUNGBLOOD

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As a pioneering cornerstone of progressive ambient-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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