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█▓ 01. Transmigration 15:32 ▓███
█▓ 02. Cerulean Blue Sky Over A Seared Deser 15:27 ▓███
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███▓ LANDMASS is a surreal shape shifting grand ▓█
███▓ adventure in sound, morphing through a ▓█
███▓ constantly altering perspective giving witness ▓█
███▓ to the creation of iconic landscape formations, ▓█
███▓ stone monuments and massive alluvial desert ▓█
███▓ plains, and the occasional pyroclastic flow. ▓█
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███▓ This is the 20th release on Steve Roach's ▓█
███▓ Timeroom Editions, which marks its 10th ▓█
███▓ anniversary this year. LANDMASS was selected ▓█
███▓ especially for this occasion, and is presented ▓█
███▓ in a beautiful six-panel Digipak. ▓█
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███▓ "As they grow more experienced, many artists ▓█
███▓ have the tendency to grow sour. LANDMASS, ▓█
███▓ however, approximately Steve Roach's 80th album ▓█
███▓ in a recording career approaching its third ▓█
███▓ decade, is the result of a still highly ▓█
███▓ optimistic philosophy. Much against the grain ▓█
███▓ of critical voices proclaiming the creative end ▓█
███▓ of traditional techniques, it presents Roach as ▓█
███▓ an artist who hasn't lost his faith in the ▓█
███▓ tonal system's ability of producing genuinely ▓█
███▓ new music. It is also a quintessential ▓█
███▓ compendium of his recent activities, spanning a ▓█
███▓ bridge from his "infinite and minimal" zones to ▓█
███▓ his semi-composed, semi-improvised grand-scale ▓█
███▓ projects in between rhythmic trance and ▓█
███▓ immersive Ambient drift. ▓█
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███▓ In fact, Roach may well be one of the few ▓█
███▓ without an inborn disgust of the big "A"-word, ▓█
███▓ part of which may be explained by his musical ▓█
███▓ development during a time when it was still ▓█
███▓ rather a competently concise point of the ▓█
███▓ compass than a confusing collective term ▓█
███▓ denominating loosely related genres of gently ▓█
███▓ floating electronic music. Even more ▓█
███▓ importantly, however, it seems to mean ▓█
███▓ something entirely different in his vocabulary, ▓█
███▓ describing a method of building pieces without ▓█
███▓ conscious dogmas, of letting sounds flow on ▓█
███▓ their own accord and of acting as a catalyst ▓█
███▓ instead of an omnipotent demiurge. ▓█
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███▓ And then, the term implies a certain physical ▓█
███▓ reality behind the sonic waves, delineating a ▓█
███▓ concrete territory whence they are emitted ▓█
███▓ from, describing a detail-smitten topography of ▓█
███▓ previously unimagined morphology. The two ▓█
███▓ worlds of objects and emotions have always been ▓█
███▓ closely connected in Steve Roach's oeuvre and ▓█
███▓ their relation has grown even stronger in ▓█
███▓ recent years, an observation fortified by the ▓█
███▓ general consensus that last year's ARC OF ▓█
███▓ PASSION constituted a temporary peak of sorts. ▓█
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███▓ Possibly, that album indeed defined his ▓█
███▓ intuitive intentions more precisely than any ▓█
███▓ work before it: On the one hand, it contained ▓█
███▓ the sequencer driven pulse of works like PROOF ▓█
███▓ POSITIVE, on the other the warm washes of his ▓█
███▓ textural pieces as well as the sensual ▓█
███▓ sexuality of the FEVER DREAMS series - all ▓█
███▓ molten into a single, shining diamond polished ▓█
███▓ in Roach's Timeroom foundry. ▓█
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███▓ If ARC OF PASSION was a culmination, LANDMASS ▓█
███▓ could logically be called a consolidation. In ▓█
███▓ many ways, it appears to be a continuation of a ▓█
███▓ confident new style, making use of a diverse ▓█
███▓ palette of timbres, tools and techniques. ▓█
███▓ Again, the bleeps and digital dots of analog ▓█
███▓ synthesizers push the pieces on, while ▓█
███▓ broodingly dense layers of drones are ▓█
███▓ constantly in flux. Thanks to its more concise ▓█
███▓ length, however, the different elements appear ▓█
███▓ more balanced in comparison to "Arc", which ▓█
███▓ gravitated around a 60-minute rhythmic ▓█
███▓ meditation. Percussive particles keep turning ▓█
███▓ up even in the outstretched beatless passages, ▓█
███▓ lending a constant additional tension and ▓█
███▓ propulsion to the already viral visions. Tracks ▓█
███▓ could explode at any minute. ▓█
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███▓ On many occasions, LANDMASS also seems more ▓█
███▓ refined despite its steely minimalism, nerved ▓█
███▓ by an erotic film noire ambiance. The third ▓█
███▓ part especially is marked by an almost painful ▓█
███▓ longing, its harmonies reaching for resolution ▓█
███▓ while spinning away in tonal turbulence. It is ▓█
███▓ a composition with a classical touch, an ▓█
███▓ orchestral piece performed by an invisible ▓█
███▓ string section. ▓█
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███▓ In the eery and cold coda, meanwhile, Roach ▓█
███▓ acts as a ghostly conductor, toning his frosty ▓█
███▓ symphonics down to the point of particle ▓█
███▓ standstill and all but complete silence while ▓█
███▓ allowing the music to glide to a halt in a ▓█
███▓ medium of quietude and unspoken allusions for ▓█
███▓ several breathless minutes in succession. ▓█
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███▓ All throughout the album, traditional musical ▓█
███▓ elements are changing. More and more it is ▓█
███▓ becoming apparent that Roach is not avoiding ▓█
███▓ melody because of minimalist principles or ▓█
███▓ academic formulas, but because, in the ▓█
███▓ wondrously interwoven worlds he is sculpting, ▓█
███▓ it would be considered a self-indulgent act of ▓█
███▓ the ego and an intrusion. While the prismic ▓█
███▓ breaking of harmonies into multitonal textures ▓█
███▓ and rich harmonic coronas already provides for ▓█
███▓ ample musical meat, a layer usually deridden as ▓█
███▓ "sound effects" is furthermore starting to sing ▓█
███▓ and emancipate at its perimeters. ▓█
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███▓ This is why the shrieks of a crow or ▓█
███▓ unidentifiable growling hums can act as ▓█
███▓ full-fledged themes here. Roach is no longer ▓█
███▓ building landscapes from sound, he is recording ▓█
███▓ "sounding" landscapes built on the most ▓█
███▓ essential building blocks: rhythm and harmony. ▓█
███▓ The twelve tones of the western musical system ▓█
███▓ are still his clay, but he is no longer ▓█
███▓ attached to the meaning implied by tradition ▓█
███▓ and general use, just as he is not bound by a ▓█
███▓ destructive urge to contradict them. ▓█
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███▓ LANDMASS continues the only tradition an honest ▓█
███▓ artist can and should really be true to: his ▓█
███▓ own. Despite the occasionally gloomy imagery ▓█
███▓ this record is conveying, I don't see Steve ▓█
███▓ Roach turning sour any time soon." ▓█
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