BE PREPARED FOR UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTERS IN 'SACRED BLACK'

Australian musician Steve Roberts of Amongst Myselves is forging new 'ear-environments' in ambient music with the release of his latest album, "Sacred Black".

This is the third release from Amongst Myselves, continuing a quiet revolution in the ambient music scene that began with the release of "The Sun in the Bottle" in 1999.

This stunning eight-track album contains eclectic influences including fifteenth century religious persecution, astrophysics, the desolation of a sleeping city at 5am and the classic Martin Denny piece 'Quiet Village'.

"Sacred Black has enabled me to explore and express diverse emotions - meditation, tension, subtlety, torment and persecution, imagination and celebration," said Steve Roberts.

The release has already received impressive reviews from ambient enthusiasts.

"Sacred Black has been endowed with a transcendent quality. The listener feels surrounded and hopefully even liberated by Roberts' designs." - Chuck van Zyl of Radio Program Star's End

"….an album that requests deeper listening than the average stuff encountered nowadays in ambient/space territory." - Bert Strolenberg, Klem Magazine, The Netherlands.

…freeform dronescapes from Amongst Myselves are amorphous and mesmerizing…..eight tracks of lovely audio-ephemera unfurls with easy-to-fall-into fluidity."- David J Opdyke, AmbiEntrance

"While each piece was conceived and inspired by a definite theme, the beauty of non-lyrical music is that the listener takes full control of what the tracks are about and the feelings they create," Steve Roberts said.

"In the end, Sacred Black is representative of all ambient music - it's all about personal interpretation. I hope to inspire and involve all those who listen to the album," he said.