It’s where this music grew from: sitting comfortably and uncomfortably in the realm of what has fallen away.” Steve comments, “I embraced that place and space over the last year. Where does your psyche go? How do you work with what remains after much that you relied on as reality falls away? Stripping away overlays of perception, intention and old patterns allows us to possess reality in its purest form.Ĭontinuing deeper, the album’s thematic flow looks at what becomes of us after we’ve stripped away the familiar. The world is rugged and beautiful no matter what has fallen away over the last year, something true and powerful underneath has been revealed. The album’s theme begins with the desire to look at life AS IT IS. “It’s an emotional, psychological, spiritual triad,” Steve describes, “a deep engagement exploring the psychology of sound: expanded consciousness creating meaning out of sonic abstraction.” The album maps a hero’s journey, taking the immersed, active listener out of consensus reality through secluded deeply personal spaces, suspended soundworlds, through tears to eventually emerge revitalized. Filled with texture and subtle nuance, this is a spacious album of organic analog electronic music with a breath and heartbeat - a simmering, churning, moving appointment with reality. It travels the soul’s pathway of renewal following the dramatic year we’ve just emerged from. AS IT IS is a revelatory experience of mystical, captivating electronic music.
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