{"product_id":"sentient_being","title":"Sentient Being","description":"\u003cp\u003eSentient Being is a late-period Steve Roach album that distills his signature ambient language into six expansive, slow-evolving pieces that feel more like environments than songs. Across roughly seventy minutes, Roach blends sequenced electronics, warm analog pads, and subtle textural details into a continuous flow that moves from buoyant, horizon-reaching motion (“Angels in Flight,” “I Feel You”) into deeply inward, nocturnal spaces. The music often suggests a living, breathing organism: themes surface gradually, morph in understated ways, and recede again, giving each track the sense of an autonomous soundworld unfolding in real time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album’s center, “Rapt in Solitude” and the nineteen-minute title track, pushes most directly into the contemplative and spiritual territory implied by the title. Chords drift in like fog, charged with a quiet emotional intensity, while luminous overtones and “sonic scintillations” trace out a kind of meditative narrative that never fully resolves, instead holding the listener in a sustained state of awareness. The closing pieces, “Angels at Rest” and “This Place of Splendor,” act like a soft descent, revisiting earlier colors in gentler, more spacious form and leaving a lingering impression of warmth and inner stillness. Taken as a whole, Sentient Being plays less as a collection of tracks than as a single, immersive journey into conscious presence, ideal for deep listening, nocturnal reflection, or extended creative work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"CD \/ Album","offer_id":53113318179130,"sku":"37150","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-03-03_at_5.43.12_PM_74604e1b-8f43-463f-8721-8a8f879f3baf.jpeg?v=1779319657","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/sentient_being","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}