Etheric Imprints

Etheric Imprints

Mesmerizing soundworlds from an artist immersed in the sensual realms of electronic/ambient sonic creation. Steve Roach dives further into the deep end of introspective music on this atmospheric set. Focusing on the essential elements of sound, silence, tone, and time-altering forms, the four long-form pieces are a lens to view the molecules of emotion and enhanced perception. Peeling away the surface layers to reveal the subterranean strata beneath, Etheric Imprints brings into form a contained sense of stillness and reflection.
Reaching towards a new voice in Roach s vocabulary of expressing the ineffable, the twenty-eight-minute title track was created with an highly processed electric grand piano as the main voice. Performing in real time and responding to an expansive electro-acoustic environment, Roach profoundly shapes and molds musical space and tone in his hands. In this piece, moments of stillness arise like waves of flow and ebb while a substratum of analog modular synth zones provides a constant, slowly shifting undercurrent of mystery and harmonic interplay.

The ethereal, ghost-like forms of the cover art perfectly capture the subtle sense of expanded body-spirit awareness the music evokes. Meditations upon Tuyen Q. Nguyen s artwork during the creative process helped inspire a new pathway into places beyond The Delicate Forever, Steve s previous atmospheric release. Etheric Imprints evokes an aural phenomena that seems to float and hover, expanding and dissipating before our very ears. A kind of Rorschach test for the auditory senses that can offer a different imprint at every listen; what we bring to it completes the experience. This music like the artist himself lives in the center of a soundworld that knows no boundaries.

Best described as elegant minimalism, Etheric Imprints offers a deeper listening into the nuance of now by way of the power of sound.
Country USA
Brand PROJEKT RECORDS
Manufacturer PROJEKT RECORDS
Binding Audio CD
ReleaseDate 2015-07-24
UnitCount 1
Format Import
UPCs 617026031927
EANs 0617026031927

Country	USA
Brand	PROJEKT RECORDS
Manufacturer	PROJEKT RECORDS
Binding	Audio CD
ReleaseDate	2015-07-24
UnitCount	1
Format	Import
UPCs	617026031927
EANs	0617026031927

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