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Release Date: 16-08-1997
Label: Hearts of Space
Catalog Number: HS11038-2
Barcode: 25041103824
Musical Style: New Instrumental
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Genesis Voices/ Sacred Site Theme | 7 | Twin Flame |
| 2 | Baraka Theme | 8 | Return |
| 3 | Paha Sapa | 9 | Chronos-Portraits Theme |
| 4 | Tropical Rain Forest | 10 | Chronos-Main Theme |
| 5 | Land Light | 11 | Chronos-Escalator Theme |
| 6 | Sacred Site Soundtrack | ||
Description:
Since his 1988 HOS debut Encounter, this much-admired spacemusic veteran has been turning out spectacular multi-channel music for IMAX and 70mm wide-screen features and exhibition rides like Universal’s Back to the Future.
On Sacred Site, a decade (1983-1993) of soundtracks, scores and related music inspired by world travels are collected, including his spine-tingling theme for director Ron Fricke's 1993 70mm release Baraka and the stirring chants of Indian medicine man Lessert Moore from the HBO Paha Sapa soundtrack.
Runs the gamut from exotic, to powerful, to majestic.
Biography:
A pioneer of the spacemusic boom of the 1970s, Michael Stearns has continued at he vanguard of sonic invention through a dozen solo albums and more than 20 years of wide-ranging studio work and film scoring. Trained on classical guitar while growing up in Tucson, Arizona, Stearns explored rock and jazz in his teens and twenties. He created and played his first electronic music while studying at the University of the Pacific.
In 1972, he moved to Los Angeles as a composer and sound designer and evolved into what Audion Magazine called the most consistently interesting and intriguing American synthesist. In 1984 Stearns founded M'Ocean, a recording studio in Santa Monica specially equipped for surround sound and electronic music. Over the next decade he designed multi-channel surround soundtracks for IMAX/OMNIMAX space theater films and for Universal Studio's Earthquake and Back to the Future theme park rides in Los Angeles and Orlando. He also collaborated with Maurice Jarre on the feature film Dreamscape and with director Ron Fricke on the acclaimed Chronos, Sacred Site and Baraka. His fascination with the ecology, culture and rituals for the American southwest resulted in the 1994 Hearts of Space collaboration with RON SUNSINGER, Singing Stones (HS11042). In recent years, Stearns has increasingly incorporated into his music sounds and inspirations gleaned from extensive travels in Indonesia, Thailand, Egypt, Costa Rica, Brazil, the Galapagos and now Venezuela.
