Steve Roach - Quiet Music – 40th Anniversary / Limited Ultra Clear Edition

One of ambient pioneer Steve Roach's most significant releases, now available for the first time as a complete 3LP vinyl set: Quiet Music – 40th Anniversary brings all three Quiet Music albums (1983–1986) together in a single limited edition. Pressed on three ultra-clear 140g records, housed in black inner sleeves and a thick outer jacket with a two-sided credits inlay. Strictly limited to 300 copies worldwide.

The meditative, ambient minimalism of Quiet Music stems from the same creative period as Roach's classic album Structures from Silence (1984). The music blends gentle synthesizer electronics with flute, electric piano, and natural sounds into a timeless, translucent soundscape—music that acts upon the body like breath.

Harold Budd, Los Angeles, 1986: „I think Steve Roach's Quiet Music is his best album. It's not that it's simply pretty (which it is), but there's an odd edge lurking in the background that moves it miles away from 'New Age' torpor. This is a lovely album from a composer working at the top of his skills." Allmusic.com: „Quiet Music is the essence of pure, meditative ambience. Steve Roach has always been a visionary performer; his work defines 'elegant futurism.' He was one of the first to demonstrate that ambient minimalism does not have to be dark, that it can be bright and hopeful without becoming maudlin or too new age. This is groundbreaking space music from an epic and legendary performer. He is peerless in his corner of the perpendicular universe." 

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