Planetary Unfolding

by Michael Stearns

Planetary Unfolding cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1981
  • Label: Continuum Montage
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 45:09
  • Community rating: 4.17/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Utilizing the massive Serge modular synthesizer, Michael Stearns constructed a profoundly immersive, beautifully continuous six-part suite of space ambient music. 'Planetary Unfolding' weaves incredibly lush, slowly evolving synthesizer drones to create a highly spiritual, deeply soothing, and epic instrumental journey that completely envelops the listener in mysterious cosmic textures.

Genres

Descriptors: space, instrumental, spacious, synthesizers, long-form, ambient, choral, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. “In the Beginning…” (7:58)
  2. “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not In Kansas anymore.” (6:22)
  3. “Wherever two or more are gathered… (8:45)
  4. Life in the Gravity Well (6:59)
  5. As the Earth Kissed the Moon (10:10)
  6. “Something’s Moving” (4:52)

Credits

  • Michael Stearns - primary artist, composed by [music conceived by], performer [performed by]
  • Tim Hines - lacquer cut by
  • Susan Harper - producer

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