Steve Roach

Steve Roach (born 1955) is an American ambient and electronic composer from La Mesa, California, who has lived in the Sonoran Desert near Tucson, Arizona, since the early 1990s. Self-taught on synthesizer from around the age of twenty, he released his debut album Now in 1982. He is best known for Structures from Silence (1984) and the double album Dreamtime Return (1988). Roach has recorded for labels including Fortuna, Hearts of Space, Timeroom Editions and Soundquest, and for many years his main label has been Projekt.