Streams and Currents

Streams & Currents, originally released in 2001, was the next compelling chapter connected to the surprise best-selling Midnight Moon (Projekt 2000). Utilizing only various processed and looped electric guitar as a painterly tool, Steve’s continuing evolution of atmospheric processed guitar-based zones provides an evocative complement to his many influential albums of synth-based soundworlds. Full of nuance and subtlety, built from webs of melody and pure texture, Streams & Currents is imbued with an ephemeral quality that seems to linger at the edge of conscious perceptions, creating an introspective, enveloping flow of mood-altering pieces. The album progresses to deeper, darker and warmer zones, growing quiet in a way that is beautifully chilling in its nearly submerged ending.

“Streams & Currents is the result of a steady flow of deeply inspired late night sessions between late August and mid-September 2001. Of my pieces, I feel these are perhaps the most intimate and directly expressive of ‘being in the present moment.’ As the CD evolves, a sense of quiet seems to engulf the tracks progressively; it is something I have never quite captured before in this way.” — Steve Roach, November 2001