Back to Life

Steve Roach’s sense of what to do with his electronic approach, whether aiming for a warm embrace or a cold power or any number of styles in between, means that there’s music for almost any mood he’s composed, and 2012’s Back To Life is one of his stronger efforts on that warm front in particular. Starting with the calm, gentle float “Where Rasa Lives,” Back to Life covers a first CD’s worth of interwoven compositions before a second disc captures one long composition, “Mist of Perception,” as a complement and conclusion to the whole experience.