The Superhero of Small Things by Steve Roach

From that comes the emerging into something greater than what we could have known or encountered without having gone through this challenging transformation. Tears of sadness for what has changed that will never be the same again. It’s a hero’s journey to even get there and after we’re there part of the equanimity experience is realizing what was lost, as we shed tears for time. And when it’s possible to be present with that sense of equanimity, there’s a feeling that underlying all of the things we took for granted is a supportive nourishing place accessible via that state of equanimity. Present with all the different feelings that come up and all the different psychological and spiritual states one goes into. Getting through that brings us to a place of equanimity where we become present to life at any given moment AS IT IS. This leads to a threshold meditation at the beginning of something new we are asked if we can remain at the threshold of the unformed? Can we be present with this place that’s unreachable at the border of what was the old and what is to be the new? In this unreachable, unformed place we imagine we ourselves might be unreachable, or perhaps the next vision is unreachable. It asks what falls away when habits are forced to change, when we lose routines and the security we’ve taken for granted. The song titles tell of a journey, a journey for this time we’re all currently living through. 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 deeply secluded 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.

The Superhero of Small Things by Steve Roach