CD  $15.00  ON SALE, $12.00  Bandcamp  Rasa Dance The Music of Connection Steve Roach 2013 Epona (CD) This collection of pieces was refined over several years of movement magic between horses and humans. Created for the Eponaquest horse-faciliated workshop Rasa Dance by equine innovator and best-selling author Linda Kohanov, the music sets the tone for interactive sessions where horses and humans literally move and dance together, thus providing a supportive atmosphere for the experience of connection. This dynamic music set covers a powerful range of emotions and inspiration which perfectly mirrors the Rasa Dance workshop theme. The collection brings together an inspired set of thematic, rhythmic, and melodic pieces from Steve Roach's vast body of work. From the liner notes by Linda Kohanov: The Evolution of Rasa Dance In 1993, at the height of my career as a music critic, I sold my CD collection to buy Tabula Rasa, a beautiful black Arabian mare. Six months later, I was riding her in the desert when a huge Rottweiler chased us through a deep sandy wash, injuring Rasa's right back leg, ending our promising riding career, yet ironically leading us on a much more fruitful path. The Chinese sage Lao-tzu observed that "it is upon disaster that good fortune rests," a lesson that Rasa and her other herd members challenged me to embrace over and over again. While the sheer joy of working with horses always outweighed the hardships, the most profound transformations happened when things didn't go my way -- when my most reliable tools, ideas, and coping strategies failed, and I had to respond to the world rather than try to control it. Through Rasa, I learned to dance with the unexpected while literally learning how to dance with her on the ground. This consolation for my inability to ride her turned into a relationship-enhancing practice that I used with other horses, and eventually taught to people through our "Rasa Dance" workshops. For these clinics, my husband Steve and I perused his extensive list of original compositions, selecting various moods and tempos. This CD collection was refined through years of movement magic between horses and humans. "Eye of Noche" and "Where Rasa Lives" were later created in memory of two horses who became great dancers, then great dance teachers of people, including those who had never worked with horses before. I was subsequently surprised to find the phrase "Rasa Dance" associated with the ancient god Krishna, who danced with his followers by moonlight. In India, a sacred performance is still called a Rasa Dance, signifying a state of grace in which Spirit engages with its many manifestations, expressing different aspects of infinity through the music of connection. But it was a living, breathing horse named Rasa who taught me that when two beings move in synchrony, a greater consciousness arises. Most importantly, I learned that if we can dance with joy, ecstasy, power, frustration, miscommunication, tragedy and anything else that comes our way, an underlying sense of deep peace emerges, allowing us to fully engage with life. Linda Kohanov   1.  Gone West RealAudioMP3 7:27   2.  Fate Awaits RealAudioMP3 8:29   3.  Nightshade RealAudioMP3 9:04   4.  Flatlands MP3 4:55   5.  Merge MP3 6:21   6.  Heart's Core MP3 8:49   7.  In the Eye of Noche MP3 14:36   8.  Where Rasa Lives MP3 15:01   Track 2 titled "Truth and Beauty"; Track 7 titled "Eye of Noche" (both previously-released).

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CD  $24.00  ON SALE, $19.99  iTunes  Dreaming... Now, Then: A Retrospective 1982 - 1997 Steve Roach 1999 Fortuna 14163 (CD) Reviewed by Eclectic Earwig Reviews, Exposé, Insite: Atlanta's Entertainment Magazine, Muze, Outsight This double CD presents selected pieces from Steve Roach's large body of work on the Fortuna Records label. Carefully selected and sequenced by the artist himself, and remasterd by Roger King, Disc 1 presents the rhythmic-electro-tribal-trance side of his work in nearly chronological order, starting with "The Ritual Continues" from 1982 and winding down with a previously unreleased live montage from 1997. Disc 2 presents an overview from the vast atmospheric soundworlds that only Steve can brew up. A stirring, spiraling, unreleased archive piece closes the second disk in a subtle yet profound way, illustrating why this influential artist continues to inspire listeners worldwide.   Disc 1: The Ritual Continues 1.  The Ritual Continues MP3 4:50   2.  Comeback MP3 2:10   3.  Something in Tears MP3 5:20   3.  Seeking MP3 5:25   4.  Conquest MP3 6:09   5.  The Breathing Stone RealAudioMP3 6:46   6.  Flatlands MP3 4:55   7.  Towards the Dream MP3 7:09   8.  The Continent MP3 4:51   9.  Steel and Bone RealAudioMP3 2:38   10.  Artifacts MP3 11:43   11.  Dreaming Now MP3 7:27   12.  Ancestral Horizon MP3 7:49   Disc 2: Looking For Safety 1.  Magnificent Gallery MP3 6:15   2.  The Slow Turning RealAudioMP3 7:40   4.  Quiet Friend RealAudioMP3 13:15   5.  Cloud Motion MP3 5:11   6.  The Memory MP3 5:57   7.  Temple of the Frog MP3 8:55   8.  Drift MP3 7:43   9.  The Passing Time MP3 12:13

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CD $15.00 iTunes  Desert Solitaire Steve Roach, Michael Stearns, Kevin Braheny 1989 Fortuna 17070 (CD) Reviewed by CD Review, Muze The follow-up to WESTERN SPACES, this time with Michael Stearns. The intensity of the desert's elemental power and allure are brought into focus on this collection of evocative sound paintings. Intense heat and thunder storms, craggy desert mountains, vast labyrinth-like canyons are at the center of this remarkable portrait of the American Southwest, one that the late writer Ed Abby wrote about so potently in the book Desert Solitaire from which the title was borrowed.   1.  Flatlands MP3 4:55   2.  Labyrinth   6:56   3.  Specter   9:34   4.  The Canyon's Embrace RealAudio 3:35   5.  Cloud of Promise   6:38   6.  Knowledge & Dust   3:23   7.  Shiprock   4:00   8.  Highnoon   10:30   9.  Empty Time   5:51   10.  From the Heart of Darkness   3:50   11.  Desert Solitaire   6:06