STEVE ROACH Dynamic Stillness 2CD Digipack 2009
Art.Nr.: 41835
EAN: 0617026022826
Label: PROJEKT
EUR 16,99
inkl. 19 % USt
Produktbeschreibung
Artist: | STEVE ROACH | |
Title: |
Dynamic Stillness | |
Format: | 2CD Digipack | |
Year: | 2009 | |
Label: | Projekt | |
Tracklist: |
1-1 Birth Of Still Places 40:28 2-1 Nature Of Things 8:50 | |
Info: |
Dynamic Stillness is a vast work that developed over a three years period, evolving in its own time alongside the many other releases Steve created at that time. These eight tracks reach into a realm of amorphous soundworlds filled with a sense of unresolved expansion and mystery, blooming into cloud-like form. The opening for these pieces was accessed through long periods of solitude at Steves high desert studio and beyond. This environment was essential for informing the inner breath of this work, revealing a mastery within the art of original sound creation, bold harmonic structures, silence and sonic space. A moving meditation on the quiet power inherent in vast spaces. Roach has come back around to the slow-motion terraforming of soundworlds that seem to go on forever, pulling skeins of light through layers of cloud to describe gorgeous imaginary landscapes. Reminiscent of the sighing, beatless drifts of Dream Circle and Magnificent Void in its blend of soul-surrounding calm edged with dramatic tension, Dynamic Stillness is Roach at his contemplative best, a sure and silent guide coaxing us to follow him into the endless realms inside ourselves. John Shanahan, Hypnagogue Mysteriously beautiful, ambient electronic waveforms bridging panorama and parsec. The singularities guiding Roachs hand are now unquestionable this is breathtaking stuff. Darren Bergstein Dynamic Stillness presents ambient-electronic pioneer Steve Roach in the deep end of the pure atmospheric, rhythmless soundscape genre. Across the 2-CD release, amorphous shifting sonics glide in a phenomenal flow, highly cohesive and yet ever-changing. ynamic stillness indeed! These eight long-form tracks (140 minutes in all) undulate softly and slowly, radiating light even as darkness hovers along the edges. Its an album of subtle pieces, more often than not with emphasis on the stillness as opposed to the dynamics. Disc twos closing Canyon Stillness plays like a dark inversion of Structures From Silence. A cold breeze blows through it all like a black mist. After so much softness it makes for a surprisingly chilling, engaging finish. Phil Derby, Electroambient Space |