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Created by Steve Roach at his Timeroom Studios throughout the Southwest
across three decades.
The Desert Experience
Steve writes, “This release started as a
collection of desert-themed tracks sequenced for summer road trips between
Arizona and California. Sometimes the trip is in dark of night, cloaked
from the heat; while other trips are in the broad searing rays of the
summer sun. Drawing from over thee decades of desert music, this magical
blend creates a set that places one directly into the dramatic and
emotive, immersive southwest landscapes.”
The Land Of Extremes
Steve writes, “My daily life, and creative
motivations are constantly infused with the relationship that has evolved
for me within this land of extremes. The expansive beauty, harsh and
dramatic, still and quiet, it’s all here. While much of my music is not
directly about the desert, the constant influence of this land that is my
spiritual home is the calibration tone I set my life to. It continues to
burn away the insignificant and illuminate – with a perfect light – what
matters.”
The Desert Collection
Steve writes, “Since before I was making
music, I was making mix tapes (first on 8 track and then cassettes) of
road music for drives through the SoCal desert and mountain backroads. The
music soundtrack to these drives would somehow play to where the dynamic
pieces would time out with dramatic shifts in the landscapes, most always
by chance and always making the moment larger than ordinary life. I love
the freedom of driving — alone in the Southwest with music. It unfurls the
knotted mind and cleanses the palate for new creative thoughts to emerge
over the drone of the engine mixed with a well-crafted set of music. It
seems to propel the car towards the horizon as the sun sets, or rises.
Countless albums have been evaluated, mapped out and road tested upon
thousands upon thousands of miles over the years. It’s true to say this
mix tape was 30 years in the making.
“When I hit play on this soundtrack on the way out of Gila Bend heading
west recently, thermometer at 105, an hour before sunset, the sky was
bleeding orange and red. The first track on The Desert Collection emerged
and so did the chills and wet eyes as I was feeling those non-motorized
western travelers from not so long ago — like me — looking to ‘go west…’
On board the ‘Ghost Train,’ indeed.”
The cover: Elephant Head Dreaming
The images, taken by Steve’s wife
Linda Kohanov, are about 10 minutes from the where a portion of the
Timeroom sits. Often Steve and Linda hike out to this area to take in the
sunset, its close to home yet eons away from the things we take for
granted every day. The massive rock guardian – Elephant Head – is the
archetype of the Cathedral in its pure and essential form. A stone Ganesh
of multi-symbolic radiance. The afternoon light upon this icon is always a
marvelous spectacle.
Release Date: July 22 2014 | 
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