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RADIANT MIND - Sense (CD-r/Digital Download)
  
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RADIANT MIND - Strands (CD/Digital Download)
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RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL - Frozen North (CD/Digital Download)
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RADIO MASSACRE INTERNATIONAL - Republic (CD/Digital Download)
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GILES REAVES - Wunjo (cd)
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RED PLANET ORCHESTRA - DNA (Digital Download)
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RED PLANET ORCHESTRA - The Human (Digital Download)
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THE REDUNDANT ROCKER - Heart (cd)
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REMOTE SPACES - Silos (cd-r)
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REMY - Fears (CD/Digital Download)
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ROBERT RICH & FARYUS - Zerkalo (cd)
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ROBERT RICH & IAN BODDY - React (cd)
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ROBERT RICH & LISA MOSCOW - Yearning (CD/Digital Download)
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ROBERT RICH & LUSTMORD - Stalker (cd)
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ROBERT RICH & STEVE ROACH - Strata (cd)
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ROBERT RICH - Filaments (CD/Digital Download)
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ROBERT RICH - Nest (CD/Digital Download)
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ROBERT RICH - The Biode (CD/Digital Download)
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ROBERT RICH - Vestiges (CD/Digital Download)
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STEVE ROACH & ELMAR SCHULTE - Ritual Ground (CD/Digital Download)
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STEVE ROACH & ROBERT LOGAN - Biosonic (CD/Digital Download)
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STEVE ROACH & ROBERT RICH - SoMa (cd)
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STEVE ROACH & ROGER KING - Dust to Dust (CD/Digital Download)
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STEVE ROACH & VIDNA OBMANA - InnerZone (CD/Digital Download)
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STEVE ROACH, BYRON METCALF & MARK SEELIG - Mantram (cd)
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STEVE ROACH, RON SUNSINGER & MICHAEL STEARNS - Kiva (cd)
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STEVE ROACH - Early Man (cd/digital download)
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STEVE ROACH - Invisible (CD/Digital Download)
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HANS-JOACHIM ROEDELIUS & TIM STORY - Inlandish (cd)
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THE ROSSWELL INCIDENT - Adrift (CD-r/Digital Download)
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THE ROSSWELL INCIDENT - Escape (cd-r/Digital Download)
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THE ROSSWELL INCIDENT - Hunted (cd-r/Digital Download)
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WALTER CHRISTIAN ROTHE AND FRIENDS - Centillion 303 (Digital Download)
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WALTER CHRISTIAN ROTHE - Alice (Digital Download)
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WALTER CHRISTIAN ROTHE - Zebra (Digital Download)
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FRéDéRICK ROUSSEAU - Abyss (cd)
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PRZEMYSłAW RUDź - Pain/tings (cd/Digital Download)
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RUMFORSKNING - Fremtiden (CD-r/Digital Download)
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CHRIS RUSSELL - Labyrinth (CD/Digital Download)
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STEVE ROACH
Sigh of Ages
CD, Projekt Records, 2010
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With "Sigh of Ages", ambient master Steve Roach brings us a grand and highly reflective work or art, a soft dweller into spacious textural realms. To compose the music, Steve once more returned to some beautiful analogue synthesizers, which included the classic 40-year-old Arp String Ensemble.
The six lengthy soundscape pieces form a continuous arc of dynamic flowing gentle currents and streams. It fascinating to hear it meander through a free form landscape as its blends modern minimalism and melodic electronic/ambient as it gradually unfolds track after track.
Especially "Morning of Ages" stands out with a more pronounced, haunting layering of symphonic sound. Most of all, the music is an emotional ride reflecting upon the passage of time, life lived, lives passed and a time of renewal, all expressed in harmony and softly curling melodic lines.
All in all, "Sigh of Ages" is a true and honest ambient journey with a constant beautiful yearning underneath the majestic textural layers. It’s a metaphor to make every moment of life count and last for the fullest.
Undeniably, this is one of Roach’s most personal sound trips to date meant for deep listening, a "moving testament to temporal nature and the unspoken subtle currents of life itself".
Highly recommended.
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Website: www.steveroach.com
© Bert Strolenberg
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