Ambient pioneer Steve Roach makes pristine music for deep listening

Does the desert have a sound? For more than 40 years, ambient pioneer Steve Roach has attempted to translate the arid breezes, pastel skies, and mutant landscapes of the rural Southwest into imaginative treats that melt languidly into the ears like devotional candles. As a teenager in the 1970s, he’d carve lines in the sand […]
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