Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steve Roach (musician)


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The result was keep. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 20:04, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

Steve Roach (musician)

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While this musician is highly prolific, I have been unable to find secondary source coverage of either the artist or his work sufficient to satisfy GNG or NMUSICBIO #1, nor can I find references that establish the artist meets any other prongs of NMUSICBIO. Innisfree987 (talk) 05:05, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
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 * Keep -- a long, prolific career. Some sources are likely to be off line. Some snippets here Google books preview:
 * Billboard - Mar 25, 2000 - Page 44, Vol. 112, No. 13 - ‎Magazine - ‎Full view: Veteran deep-ambient composer Steve Roach is one such musician, a recording artist who has released more than three dozen albums through Hearts Of Space, Fortuna, Projekt and his own Timeroom Editions limited-edition label...
 * CMJ New Music Report - Nov 1, 1999 - Page 27, Vol. 60, No. 641 - ‎Magazine - ‎Full view: Release Date: October 19; at radio now STEVE ROACH Light Fantastic (Fathom) For almost 20 years, ambient musician Steve Roach has explored the constructs and configurations of spatial electronic music. With Light Fantastic, his third ...
 * Review of one of the albums.
 * This suggests notability to me. K.e.coffman (talk) 07:07, 3 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep - Also... detailed coverage of Structures from Silence from Fact; this from Billboard suggests a significant following in the ambient genre; a passing mention in Music in American Life states that he is "well known for his contributions to new age music"; this from Billboard indicates that he was once a presence on New Age music charts (eg, this from 1994); and his Dreamtime Return is included in 1,000 Recordings to Hear Before You Die. On the other hand, it's questionable as to whether there's a need for all of the album articles to have been created as individual articles. ~Hydronium~Hydroxide~(Talk)~ 10:16, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Indeed, it's the albums that drew my attention to the entry--there are quite a lot of them in the New Pages backlog that pretty clearly don't meet NALBUM criteria, and given my difficulty establishing the notability of the main page, I wanted to sort that out before working through all the albums (didn't make sense to redirect to a page that might be deleted). Innisfree987 (talk) 22:37, 7 July 2017 (UTC)


 * Keep - the above sources sufficiently establish notability, in my view. Moreover, this person's works have been reviewed on multiple occasions by Billboard, he has appeared on the New Age charts , and he was described by Pitchfork as "one of the defining American artists of new age music" .  gongshow  talk  18:50, 5 July 2017 (UTC)


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