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Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return ( 88, 130min ^ 299mb)
Roach a onetime professional motorbike racer born in California in 1955, -- inspired by the music of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Vangelis -- taught himself to play synthesizer at the age of 20 Seven years later he debuted with the album Now, his early work was quite reminiscent of his inspirations, but with 1984's Structures from Silence his music began taking enormous strides, the album's expansive and mysterious atmosphere inspired directly by the the beauty and power of the earth's landscapes to create lush, meditative soundscapes influential on the emergence of ambient and trance. Subsequent works including 1986's three-volume Quiet Music series honed Roach's approach, his dense, swirling textures and hypnotic rhythms akin to environmental sound sculptures.
In 1988, inspired by the Peter Weir film The Last Wave, Roach journeyed to the Australian outback, with field recordings of aboriginal life inspiring his acknowledged masterpiece, the double-album Dreamtime Return. Which is certainly one of the most important ambient releases of the last 30 years and most likely Roach's strongest and most representative work. Dreamtime Return's effortless fusion of tribal and electronic instrumentation is ageless and doesn't sound at all dated. Each track blends seamlessly into the next and though this album is epic to say the least, it never becomes boring, static, or saccharine. The Aboriginal elements are tasteful and never exploitative like so many faux ethnic ambient and psy-trance releases from the early to mid-nineties.
After relocating to the desert outskirts of Tuscon, Arizona, Roach established his own recording studio, Timeroom, and in the years to follow grew increasingly prolific, creating both as a solo artist and in tandem with acts including Robert Rich, Michael Stearns, Jorge Reyes and Kevin Braheny -- in all, close to two dozen major works in the 1990s alone, all of them located at different points on the space-time continuum separating modern technology and primitive music. His album roster from that decade includes: Strata (1991), Artifacts (1994), Well of Souls (1995), Amplexus (1997), and Dust to Dust (1998). Early Man was released on Projekt in early 2001, followed by one of his many collaborations with Vidna Obmana. His ability to create organic time-altering soundscapes reached a high point on the 2003 four-CD opus Mystic Chords & Sacred Spaces, and has continued since 2006 in his prodigious Immersion series. Recent releases Possible Planet and New Life Dreaming show a return to a more open, breathing sound.
Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return I ( 88 ^ 154mb)
01 - Towards The Dream (7:09)
02 - The Continent (4:49)
03 - Songline (3:10)
04 - Airtribe Meets The Dream Ghost (7:00)
05 - A Circular Ceremony (11:20)
06 - The Other Side (13:16)
07 - Magnificent Gallery (6:11)
08 - Truth In Passing (8:44)
09 - Australian Dawn (The Quiet Earth Cries Inside) (6:17)
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Steve Roach - Dreamtime Return II ( 88 ^ 145mb)
10 - Looking For Safety (31:21)
11 - Through A Strong Eye (6:50)
12 - The Ancient Day (6:05)
13 - Red Twilight With The Old Ones (9:53)
14 - The Return (8:33)
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