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Steve Roach Bio
Steve Roach is a leading American pioneer and icon in the evolution of ambient/electronic music, helping shape it into what it is today. Twice Grammy-nominated, his releases span over four decades and over 150 albums. His massive catalog of landmark recordings includes Structures from Silence, Dreamtime Return and Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces (part 1-4). Drawing from a vast, unique and deeply personal authenticity, his albums are fueled by the momentum of a lifetime dedicated to the soundcurrent. Roach is an artist operating at the pinnacle of his career, driven by a passion and unbroken focus that lives within the soul-stirring depth of his music.
From the expansive, time-suspending spaces reflecting his spiritual home in Baja Arizona to the fire-breathing, sequencer, percussive-driven rhythmic expressions woven from all things electric and organic, this innovative world of sound has been nourished by years of transcendent concerts worldwide in extraordinary settings. A concert space within a lava tube on the Canary Island of Lanzarote, an ancient cathedral in the Basque region of Spain, a mountain-top Roman amphitheater in Verucchio Italy, a volcanic lava rock performance site encircled by 65 stone monoliths in Mexico City, along with cathedrals, intimate rock and jazz venues and classic theaters across the US and Europe are among the spectacular scenes that have informed the evolution of his work.
Roach's two hours and longer extended solo concerts unfold as a continuous journey experience traveling through a vast range of sonic landscapes, dynamic emotion, visceral intensity and delicate introspection. Every live event is unique in response to the audience, venue, and the visual collaborators in tune with the trajectory of the set.
Always reaching toward what's next on the horizon, Roach refuses to be tied down to any one stylistic direction. Capturing peak moments as they occur in his desert-based Timeroom studio or on the front side of now in the live setting, he creates a sonic experience that breathes pure emotion and delivers a vital life energy to an audience worldwide.
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Images for your article: Sam Rosenthal
1986 The Rope
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Black Tape For A Blue Girl Bio
Given where Black Tape for a Blue Girl began over thirty years ago with founder Sam Rosenthal's exploration of brooding, extended electronics and strings meshed with deeply revealing lyrics and darkly textured, melodramatic vocal performances, it's striking to see his muse and inspiration reach a new peak with his recent 13th album (The Cleft Serpent). The neoclassical / gothic stylings that made the band one of the originators of American darkwave are in full force on this 2021 releases.
The Cleft Serpent is an elegant, heartfelt, and tragic torch song to humanity. A deeply personal tale cast on an almost cosmic scale, the album is a mature and fascinating musing on love, death and desire. The eight gothic neoclassical tracks evoke a sense of earthly entanglement, taking the listener through interconnected pieces charged with emotional honesty. A dark and beautiful work, it?s the 13th from Black Tape For A Blue Girl, and the first for vocalist Jon DeRosa and cellist Henrik Meierkord, joining the electronics of songwriter Sam Rosenthal.
Rosenthal's pensive electronics and revelatory songwriting has made fans of director David Lynch, former adult actress Sasha Grey, writers Poppy Z. Brite and Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan. Supporters of the music regularly tell Rosenthal that it was the emotional and personal connection to the music they felt during times of stress and personal crisis that knit them to the band's moving sound.
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1996 Remnants of a deeper purity
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1989 Ashes in the brittle air
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1987 Mesmerized by the sirens
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