As a significant metaphor in Steve Roach's sonic milieu, the ever-evolving sky inspired these lush ambient layers of enveloping atmospheric warmth. The album’s four longform compositions slowly unfurl harmonic wonder and timeless spectral melodies balanced with grounded mantra-like rhythmic elements; all combine with a yearning to merge into infinite realms of epiphany and expansion.

Created in his desert ridgetop Timehouse studio which looks out onto a vast distant horizon — equal parts land and sky — The Reverent Sky reflects Roach’s ongoing dialogue with the worlds beyond the studio, his artistic process shaped by the panoramic vistas outside and the unbound inspiration within. Perched amidst this breathtaking view as he creates, Roach infuses his music with the subtle yet profound transitions at the very heart of this auditory journey: the light of daybreak to evening twilight, sunrise to sunset and the ethereal transitions into the deep of the night's sky.

The dynamic and emotional spectrums reveal a profound sense of intimacy, grace, beauty, longing and mystery in a style Roach refers to as ‘essentialism.’ He reflects, “This is about retaining only what is vital and essential to the creation of each piece as a pure and deeply emotive sonic sensory experience. The evolution of essentialism in my artistic philosophy is fully present in the recent releases As it Is, Rest of Life, Reflections in Repose and One Day of Forever."

Born from his hand-sculpting of sound, the music is formed on hardware instruments. They are the heart of his unique and personal palette of colors which paint the reverent sky with the Oberheim Xpander and OB-6, Mellotron - Resch Edition, Hydrasynth Deluxe, Novation Bass Station II, Nord Lead 2X, Roland TR-8S, Yamaha CP33 Electric Grand and for the first time in his work, the innovative Osmose Synth by Expressive E.

Manifesting pure atmospheric reverie balanced with a timeless pulse, Roach remains a constant innovator in the world of ambient electronic music. His work connects and expresses the world around us and the realms within.
 
Steve Roach | The Reverent Sky | CD