Michael Stearns - Encounter: A Journey in the Key of Space
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Artist: Michael StearnsBrand: Valley
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: Hearts of Space
Soundtracks:
- Encounter: Awaiting the Other
- Craft: Dimensional Release
- The Beacon: Those Who Have Gone Before
- On the Way: Space Caravan
- Dimensional Shift: Across the Threshold
- Within: Choir of the Ascending Spirit
- Distant Thunder: Solitary Witness
- Alien Shore: Starlight Bay
- Procession: Sacred Ceremony
- Star Dreams: Peace Eternal
Free Music Notes for Encounter: A Journey in the Key of Space
Free Music Review: An extraordinary auditory CEIII
Hit: 5 Stars
Will formal extraterrestrial contact in the form of the conventional alien (i.e. Gray) ever take place? Some ufologists and UFO buffs hope so, and whenever I put on this CD, as I hear it, the music is certainly evocative of this wish.
Michael Stearn's Encounter (1988) is, in my opinion, an essential supplement for anyone interested in the subject of the E.T. phenomenon (as I am). To record an album whose entire theme is that of the approach of the ESV (extraterrestrial space vehicle) - as Phil Thornton would also do with his Alien Encounter (1996) - is both an overdue accomplishment and a refreshing departure within the sub-genre of New Age space music. I only know of these two, and wish that there were more New Age albums out there devoted to this theme.
Encounter (10 tracks; 52:40), unlike Thornton's Alien Encounter, one may agree has a more earthbound feel to it, although it very much remains escapist, nevertheless. Whereas my mind is whisked away into outer space while listening to Thornton's CD, with Stearn's recording, venturing the cosmos isn't where I myself am taken, as we can clearly hear sound effects of what sounds like someone moving through some trees, as well as crickets chirping, and a craft descending, evoking the image in the listener of a terrestrially set alien visitation, as the seeming audible hiker strolls through a woodland. Imagine now a mysterious light up ahead in the clearing, where the occupants of a strange craft await seeking spiritual communion with the Earthling!
As the musician makes mention in his brief CD liner note, the theme of this album is that of Space. The beautiful cover painting of the sparkling-lit mothership hovering above a nocturnal lake is by Geoffrey Chandler. And in the cover insert to the CD there includes an excerpt taken from Terence McKenna's True Hallucinations.
I play this album repeatedly. As I hear it, it is highly evocative of what a numinous close encounter must feel like. I like listening to it when outside the stars are visible. The aurally cinematic Encounter is occasionally spooky, but more so one's fear of the unknown-visitation subsides as one learns to utterly embrace this mystical musical experience.
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