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ARTIST
TITLE
La Rosa: Live In Tucson, 2025
FORMAT
2CD

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PRO 438CD PRO 438CD
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RELEASE DATE
6/5/2026

"Pioneering electronic artist Steve Roach's La Rosa is a zenith in his five-decade live career. Blending new pieces born from the performance experience with essential classics, the 2-disc set captures a riveting sold-out December 6, 2025, show at the state-of-the-art La Rosa venue in Tucson, AZ. Build in a 1930's cathedral, La Rosa's set and setting empowers the music, as Steve taps into the collective memory of the sacred space itself. Performed and mixed by Steve in front of a hometown audience, with no later overdubs or edits, this astounding album transcends what a live concert could be. From electronic space music to deep reflective multi-dimensional sequencers to dreamtime material, listeners move through subtle, microscopic levels of reality where all forms are experienced as sound, a dynamic Steve describes as the 'soundcurrent' which crosses many styles, atmospheres, and moods. A remarkable gift for melody is showcased by the driving sequencer patterns that gain power through repetition; natural sounds dissolve the boundaries between the performance space and the surrounding landscape, with coyote howls and bird calls making the album shimmer. On the new 'Born of Darkness,' Steve plays the fujara -- a six-foot overtone flute -- producing snarling sparks of sonic lightning; and on 'Songlines' (from 1988's seminal Dreamtime Return), he delivers an ecstatic digeridoo performance demonstrating that the soundcurrent flows just as easily through the breath as through an electronic circuit. La Rosa's finale brings listeners to 1984's 'Structures From Silence,' played on the original Oberheim that produced the classic recording. As with Steve's catalog more broadly, designations like old and new, acoustic and electric, modern and traditional, melt away. The final burst of applause is like waking from a dream, reminded of the uncanny alignment of space and time you've just experienced."