New Life Dreaming (2024 Remaster)

2024 edition of New Life Dreaming elegantly remastered by Howard Givens.

From the first chord of "Perfect Dream" to the final fade of "In the Eye Of Noche," New Life Dreaming presents an unbroken feeling of connection to the earth bound meditations found on Steve’s 1988 classic Dreamtime Return. Created between 2004 and 2005, New Life Dreaming is an electronic ambient release that envelops the listener in a diaphanous realm of sound, representing an essential chapter in the book of Steve's sonic vision. Since its release, the music has found its place with listeners among other classics such as Structures From Silence, Quiet Music and Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces. This 2024 edition of New Life Dreaming was elegantly remastered by Howard Givens.

"The desire to tap into the soundcurrent from which the Dreamtime Return music was drawn seemed inevitable as its presence within me grew even deeper. It's a living, breathing space which has continued to flow down deep over the years. As I re-opened the portal to this dreamtime space, the creative urges and subtle epiphanies to follow the path into this new life dreaming were fully activated, connecting me back into this indescribable alluring realm.”

Exposé wrote: New Life Dreaming features five expansive drone pieces, extended-length textural developments that slowly evolve as they grow and change, looping and breathing while slowly enveloping the listener ever deeper into subconscious states. Within the haunting, shimmering dreamlike sequences that bask the listener in a gentle and warm blanket of sound, echoey voices fill the background, drifting in and out of phase like a morphing multicolored morning fog over a lysergic desert landscape. The effect is almost paralyzing; each piece takes you deeper until one arrives at a safe and still point where there is no thought, only experience. This is easily Roach’s finest floating ambient work in recent memory.