Roach Steve & King Roger

Dust To Dust

Label: Project

Genre: Electronica / Ambient / Experimental

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Roach & King’s vivid world of desert reveries continue to engage new listeners with a sound that rides deep into trails long forgotten and rediscovered. Now considered an influential classic in its own genre. Dust to Dust’s guitars, harmonicas and washboard rhythms find their place within a vast desert sky of synth worlds revealing the slow heat and allure of wide open spaces, distant horizons and emotional yearning.

Western music in the truest sense, it’s a bold narrative of bygone eras with haunting melodies and atmospherics drawn from the soul of the desert and its people. This is the music, and even more the soundtrack, to lingering ghosts and lost but not forgotten dreams of restless souls driven to “Go West by God!” The story shifts between the present and the recent past when a well-worn trail was the only road west. The rails were freshly laid, still wet with the sweat and blood that built them. It’s a transcendent musical masterpiece, an alluring, provocative soundtrack inspired by the rolling tumbleweeds, barren landscape, and hardscrabble life and mythology of the old west.

"Dust to Dust is the creation of restless, ever-pioneering composer Steve Roach and native-Tucsonian Roger King, a seasoned studio guitarist, sound engineer and patent medicine man. Their music grew out of a series of easy-going get-togethers to “see what the hell might happen.” Roach and King soon discovered that growing up in the desert had mutually steeped them in the omnipresent influence of the Wild West in all its glory. It is a bold step in a new direction: where sounds paint pictures with a range of colors drawn from the land, where stories are told with the instruments of old and new pioneers.
The music feels like torn leather chaps that have been out on the virtual-trail for a while, making Dust to Dust one of Roach’s most melodic, yet gritty albums to date . . . It sounds like the musicians have strapped on six-shooters in a Sergio Leone spaghetti western.” (John Diliberto, ECHOES RADIO)

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