Peter E Midford
This has always been my favorite track from this album - dating back to 1985. It's always sounded like slow steady progress to me - the evolution of intelligence. The title track is more like long days of fieldwork, under the hot sun, recording the behavior of a study animal. I did just that 10 years after hearing this album for the first time.
Favorite track: Reflections in Suspension.
Cotton Hill
The Bible of ambient music. One of the few instances where a melody can be carried for 30 minutes and you do the exact opposite of complaining.
Favorite track: Structures from Silence.
Dave Aftandilian
Listening to these gently flowing, peacefully evolving, crystalline ambient compositions feels like walking alongside a river, watching the warm sunlight dance and sparkle on the wave-tips. Seeing this, hearing this, one cannot help but be transported to a more positive place, where the tiny smile visible outwardly becomes full-bellied joy glowing inwardly.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
The first vinyl pressing (500 units) has sold out. Pre-order the second vinyl pressing today! The colors of the second pressing (1000 units) will be an evolution of the first edition: a rich blue inside ultra clear.
✰ THIS IS A PREORDER ✰ Any items you include in your cart with this LP will be held until the LP is ready to ship. We expect to ship in early April; that will be updated as we get more info.
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✰ The LP is the first three tracks, the remastered version of the original 1984 album ✰
• 140 gram Color in Color: Rich Blue No. 13 in Ultra Clear
• Limited Edition second pressing of 1000
• 4-Page Insert with History and Exclusive Photos
• 40th Anniversary Remaster
Includes unlimited streaming of Structures From Silence — 40th Anniversary Remaster
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
3CD in 6-panel Digipak; includes the two bonus discs recorded in 2013. 7 tracks in total, like the digital download.
Includes unlimited streaming of Structures From Silence — 40th Anniversary Remaster
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
CD in 4-panel digipak. Contains the first 3 tracks.
Includes unlimited streaming of Structures From Silence — 40th Anniversary Remaster
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 4 days
Purchasable with gift card
$15USDor more
Cassette + Digital Album
Limited edition cassette, with 3 tracks.
Includes unlimited streaming of Structures From Silence — 40th Anniversary Remaster
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Projekt celebrates the 40th anniversary of this ambient classic with a beautiful remastered limited edition LP, 1CD, & 3CD.
STRUCTURES FROM SILENCE‘s breathing, suspended embrace of atmospheres and serene melodies instantly struck a chord with listeners in 1984; the album continues to reiterate its timeless resonations with new listeners today.
On this landmark recording of gentle proportions, the three long-form tracks were the birth of something new: an original and pure statement striking a balance between diaphanous and understated, deep and reflective. The listening experience evokes a sense of silence within the music as well as the space between the chords. It expresses the breath of life and offers a meditation on delicate strands of subtle awareness.
Forty years later, STRUCTURES FROM SILENCE remains an iconic American release in the ambient and electronic genres. It's a well-respected soundtrack for contemplation, relaxation, meditation, and creativity. Emotional, powerful, and enriching, it is a living example of the true healing quality that music can hold.
Steve reflects, “STRUCTURES FROM SILENCE remains a still point in suspended time for me when looking back over the span of my life immersed within the creative currents of sound and silence. Over 40 years ago the pieces on this album were created from my sole (soul’s) desire to live within a sonic space that would provide a sense of safety, soul nurturing comfort and time suspension. There was no original intention to make an album around these pieces. They were created purely as a sanctuary for my emerging personal journey as an artist. Once the three tracks were recorded it eventually became clear they belonged together in what would become the STRUCTURES FROM SILENCE album we have today and presented in this beautifully remastered 2024 edition. The response this music has reflected back to me over all these years is a humble reminder filled with gratitude, of the essential, pure need to listen deep into the moment, respond and create from this place without question.”
The 3CD deluxe edition includes two bonus discs created in 2013 and remastered for this edition. Steve says, “Over the years since the creation of STRUCTURES FROM SILENCE, certain pieces would emerge in the studio that instantly had the resonance of a direct relationship to the place that birthed this work back in 1984. Like the light slowing emerging in an early morning sunrise returning from a thirty year orbit – the desire to draw from this place of stillness, and deep inner quiet became the soul tone for these new pieces. Like the three original tracks, these were created in moments spent simply being present in the studio, tapping the flow state and guiding this sense into these recorded moments.”
Projekt gives listeners the chance to discover and rediscover this timeless classic. With a beautiful new mastering that reveals the stillness within, this release sets the tone for the next 40 years of silence.
Pitchfork: Top-40 Best Ambient Albums of All Time. Contemplative bliss, full of purring drones and high notes that shimmer and fade. Like a desert mirage, these structures hover forever at the horizon, an oasis from the din surrounding it.
FACT Magazine: #10 best album of the 80s! Steve Roach’s STRUCTURES FROM SILENCE remains one of the most important ambient albums ever crafted… its enduring influence has been unmistakably visible in the three decades since its release. It has never been more relevant.
John Diliberto, Echoes Radio: STRUCTURES FROM SILENCE is like riding the perfect wave in slow motion… as if sculpting liquid, Roach carefully shapes his sounds into a stately crescendo for an eternal dawn.
Yoga Journal Magazine: Top ten all time releases for Yoga.
ARTIST BIO:
As a pioneering cornerstone of ambient-atmospheric-electronic music, internationally-renowned artist Steve Roach has dedicated his life to exploring myriad soundworlds that express a timeless source of inspiration. Capturing peak moments as they occur in his Timeroom studio, he creates a sonic experience that breathes emotion and vital life energy connecting an ever-expanding global audience. Drawing from his 44 years of dedication to the evolution of electronic music, concerts worldwide and a lifelong passion for the hardware instrument-based way of working, Roach places the listener in the center of his sanctuary of desire. He brings us to a summit drawn from his life in the soundcurrent: a timeless ephemeral and empowered space that soothes, inspires and enlightens.
John Diliberto, Echoes Radio: Forty years after STRUCTURES' release, the intervening decades have only proved that it’s as serenely timeless as we thought it was the first time around, still sounding like slow motion surfing on the perfect wave to infinity.
Composed, performed, produced and recorded by Steve Roach
at the Timeroom, Culver City, California 1983-84
Spatial enhancements by Kevin Braheny & Michael Stearns
Discs 2 and 3 recorded 2013-14 at the Timeroom, AZ.
STRUCTURES FROM SILENCE transferred to 24/96K from original analog 2-track tape by Richard L. Hess, Aurora, Ontario, Canada
40th Anniversary Remaster by Howard Givens at Spotted Peccary Studios NW, Portland, OR.
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America's premier independent label specializing in passionately intense introspective music in the ambient, electronic, ethereal & darkwave genres. 40-year-old Projekt continues to nurture the careers of its select roster of artists....more
★ NAME-YOUR-PRICE DOWNLOAD ★ The immersion continues. This new release features extended and alternate versions of three tracks from Steve's recent SANCTUARY OF DESIRE. Projekt Records
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If I wanted to point someone to Steve Roach's music, I'd start them here. This record spans some of Roach's signature styles, like the percolating synths in "Currents of Compassion", the dreamy abstraction of "Prometheus Passage", the tribal rhythms of "The Gone Place", and the elegiac majesty of "What Remains". It's stunning all around and guaranteed to make any day better. fyeahmetal
From the always-excellent label Past Inside the Present comes this stunning work of sustained tone and timbre. Gorgeous. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 1, 2022
