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Release Date: 15-06-1997
Label: Hearts of Space
Catalog Number: HS11042-2
Barcode: 25041104227
Musical Style: New Instrumental
Track Listing:
| Disc 1 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ringing Desert | 7 | Night Rocks |
| 2 | Invocation | 8 | Subterranean Garden |
| 3 | Shadows & Light | 9 | Shadows |
| 4 | Petroglyphs | 10 | Honoring Stone Magic |
| 5 | Stone People | 11 | Sunrise Ceremony |
| 6 | Ghost Dance | 12 | Return of the Red Hat |
Review:
'...an extremely high level of serious inspiration. The dozen ghostly meditations carry poetic titles worthy of Messiaën or Takemitsu. ...a singular achievement for both performers and engineers.' - IN TUNE! Heuwell Tircuit.
Description:
The first digital on-site recordings of the sacred Native American stones that 'sing' when struck.
Accompanied by tribal singers and musicians from the Lakota, Hopi, Cree and Cahuilla Nations, Singing Stones joins geological silicate and silicon technology - traditional culture and modern sound magic - for a unique experience.
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.
