Steve Roach announces ‘The Surface Below’ album and reissue of ‘Stillpoint’
Steve Roach
Timeroom Editions will release the new deep-ambient long-form album “The Surface Below” (Immersion Six) by Steve Roach on January 9, 2026. The CD arrives as a 4-panel digipak, limited to 300 copies. In parallel, Roach’s 2×CD “Stillpoint” returns in a new digipak edition.
“The Surface Below – Immersion Six” is a single 72-minute immersion designed for continuous, low- or high-level playback. Created with hardware synths and outboard effects, it was mixed on an analog console at Roach’s Timehouse studio in Baja Arizona.
Roach’s Immersion series began in 2006 and includes multi-disc entries through “Immersion Five: Circadian Rhythms” (2011).
The reissue of “Stillpoint” comes as a 2×CD digipak with new artwork as said earlier. Initially issued digitally on December 21, 2019; this edition updates the packaging and restores the two long-form pieces for continuous playback.
About Steve Roach
Steve Roach (born 1955, La Mesa, California) is an American ambient and electronic composer active since the early 1980s. His early cassette and LP releases include “Now” (1982) and “Structures from Silence” (1984). He moved to the Sonoran Desert near Tucson in the early 1990s, shaping the spacious, beatless soundworlds that define much of his catalog.
Roach established the Timeroom studio in Tucson and created the Timeroom Editions label in 1998 to self-release albums alongside his long association with Projekt Records. Across the 2000s he expanded into extended, time-suspending works such as “Immersion: One” (2006) through “Immersion: Five” (2011). Recent activity includes live and archival titles and 2024–2025 reissues and new albums via his official site and Bandcamp.
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