Steve Roach - Portals and Spirals (2025)

The two long-form pieces presented as Portals and Spirals were created in 2025, inspired by over two years of live performances across the US. These studio-created pieces capture the current evolution of Steve’s passion, obsession, and dedication to the multidimensional sonic inner-weaves emanating from the Timehouse ridgetop studio. The phrase “judging a book (CD or LP) by its cover” applies here. The LP and long-box trifold CD with die-cut portal digipak (DVD size) is stunning—a testament to physical objects that hold energy within themselves. In this case, the music contained within these packages is honored by this magnificent presentation for your collection, reminding us why the physical medium is very much alive and remains a piece of beauty to behold while traveling through the Portals and Spirals.

The LP edition contains arrangements and mixes created specifically for the LP format, providing a different perspective from the CD edition.

Portals and Spirals

There are phases in life where one can feel a peak passage unfolding while directly in it. Referred to as “being in the zone,” I call it the all-is-now moment—the front side of now. The ecstasy of these fully expanded present-moment occurrences is experienced at many points in life, never to be repeated on any level as you’re in it, and often never documented. Fleeting and ephemeral, this is why we keep going for it… that perfect present moment of pure, 100% engagement. It was captured here.

This experience is stored as a memory we can recall over time as it fades into our inventory of pinnacle moments. We can continue to draw from this as it often shapes who we are. This could be riding a 100-foot wave in Hawaii, witnessing a sunset like never before—or ever again—that will be gone forever in minutes, or feeling the stillness of an early morning after a dramatic desert thunderstorm.

“These two 2025 Timehouse studio recording sessions, over two days, capture all of this—and something well beyond. The energy of life itself and my compulsion to engage in this creative surrender and spontaneous willingness of a live composition is fully alive here in these two long-form sonic soul journeys that continue to regenerate my passion and engagement with life’s vital sound currents with every listening session.

This is the way in… Portals and Spirals.”

– Steve Roach, Summer 2025
credits
released September 5, 2025

Tracklist

1. The Far Place
2. Portals and Spirals