Steve Roach ‘Quiet Music’ 40th Anniversary 3LP on Projekt Records – 300 copies on ultra clear vinyl
Steve Roach’s “Quiet Music” (1983–1986) out as a 3LP ultra clear vinyl set for the first time via Projekt Records, 300 copies, August 7, 2026.
Steve Roach‘s “Quiet Music” series, originally recorded between 1983 and 1986 and released on Projekt Records, will be available on vinyl for the first time as a complete 3LP set. The Steve Roach “Quiet Music” 40th Anniversary edition is pressed on three ultra clear 140g LPs in a limited edition of 300 copies, and will be out August 7, 2026 so Audioglobe informs.
The set collects all three original “Quiet Music” albums in one outer sleeve with black paper inner sleeves and a two-sided credits insert. The pressing is 140g ultra clear vinyl, limited strictly to 300 copies.
The full tracklist across the three LPs is as follows.
- “Quiet Music 1”: A1 “The Green Place, Part I” (24:44); B1 “The Green Place, Part II” (24:52).
- “Quiet Music 2”: A1 “See Things” (5:45); A2 “Towards the Blue” (3:20); A3 “Something in Tears” (5:18); A4 “A Few More Moments” (13:05); B1 “Air and Light” (25:51).
- “Quiet Music 3”: A1 “Dreaming and Sleep” (18:16); A2 “Quiet Canon” (7:28); B1 “Sleep and Dreaming” (24:47).
Here’s what Steve Roach says on “Quiet Music” at 40 years: “In looking at the arc of my music, 40 years after creating Quiet Music,” Roach stated in the release materials, “I still feel an unbroken connection to this same inner breath and pulse I was discovering within myself and my creative life at that time. Even with everything that was going on in the early ’80s — musically, culturally, politically — this music came to exist in its own dimension, outside of that time, separate from the day-to-day climate in which I was surrounded. I was yearning to express a timeless and universal soul-tone, a safe haven within the music.”
Composer Harold Budd said this when the release first came out in 1986: “I think Steve Roach’s Quiet Music is his best album. It’s not that it’s simply pretty (which it is), but there’s an odd edge lurking in the background that moves it miles away from ‘New Age’ torpor. This is a lovely album from a composer working at the top of his skills.”
About Steve Roach
Steve Roach is an American composer and performer born in 1955, based in Tucson, Arizona. He began working with synthesizers in the early 1980s and established an international reputation through recordings released on Projekt Records, among other labels.
His 1984 album “Structures from Silence” – reissued on its third vinyl edition by Projekt in April 2025 – is considered a foundational work of ambient music. The “Quiet Music” series originated in commissions for healing-arts programmes and was released on cassette in 1986; the recordings draw on synthesizers, flute, electric piano and natural sounds.
Roach has continued releasing new studio and live work at high frequency; Our most recent coverage concerned the limited 2CD live release “La Rosa — Live in Tucson, 2025” in May 2026. The “Quiet Music” 3LP set, out August 7, 2026, marks the first time the complete series has been issued on vinyl in a single edition.
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