Steve Roach

A longstanding leader in contemporary electronic music, composer and multi-instrumentalist Steve Roach (born 1955 in La Mesa, California) drew on the beauty and power of the earth's landscapes to create lush, meditative soundscapes influential on the emergence of ambient and trance.

A onetime professional motorbike racer, Roach -- inspired by the music of The Leaving Time, an experiment in ambient jazz.

After relocating to the desert outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, Roach established his own recording studio, Vidna Obmana.

He received his second Grammy nomination with 2018’s Spiral Revelation.