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Jonn Serrie – Tingri

Jonn Serrie – Tingri
MP3 @ 256 Kbps | 44:40 min | 1990 | 94.4 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Jonn Serrie is a well-rounded e-music long-timer. His gentle sound design has elements of classic new age and hypnotic space music. Tingri is one of his most popular and accessible CDs. The melodic atmospheres surround exotic synth washes as energetic rhythms carry them around and through the soundscapes. Each composition has its own integrity and structure. This disc will appeal to fans of John Flomer, Patrick O’Hearn, and Kevin Braheny.

Jonn Serrie – Flightpath

Jonn Serrie – Flightpath
MP3 @ 256 Kbps | 46:38 min | 1989 | 101 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Jonn Serrie is a veteran space music composer and performer. It is totally appropriate that he would create a CD acknowledging the aviation pioneers whose exploits begat the space age. Flightpath addresses the activities at Muroc Airbase (later renamed Edwards Air Force Base) during the ’40s and ’50s. Serrie’s soundscapes and atmospheres have sci-fi timbres and textures that give them spacescape attitudes. This is a good CD with some great moments. It will appeal to fans of Richard Burmer, Patrick O’Hearn, and Kevin Braheny.

Jonn Serrie – The Stargazer’s Journey

Jonn Serrie – The Stargazer’s Journey
MP3 @ 224 Kbps VBR | 1:00:01 min | 2003 | 106 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Jonn Serrie is widely considered to be the most accomplished visionary composer in America, a pioneer who has partnered with astronauts John Glenn and Chuck Yeager, performed at NASA events, and the standard for Space Music worldwide. His galactic soundscapes have been described by massage therapists and healing professionals as ‘a deeply peaceful oasis of sound’ and an utterly lovely and truly tranquil journey to the outer reaches of the human imagination. ~creativecenters.com

At the last instant before the Sun sets on a clear evening, a sharp-eyed observer might notice the bright speck of sunlight turn green. For most of the world, that ‘green flash’ marks the end of day. But for a lover of the night sky, it marks the beginning of The Stargazer’s Journey. Even William Hershel, who discovered the planet Uranus, knew that music has a lot in common with astronomy. It’s been a great tradition that continues with Jonn Serrie’s beautiful collection of cosmic musical poetry.

Jonn Serrie – Midsummer Century

Jonn Serrie – Midsummer Century
MP3 @ 192 Kbps | 49:39 min | 1993 | 74.1 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Composer/keyboardist Jonn Serrie is quietly becoming a major player in the contemporary instrumental music genre. Mixing memorable, melodic pop songs with less-structured ambient compositions, Serrie creates a romantic soundscape on his fifth Miramar release, Midsummer Century.

Songs like Jimmy Webb’s classic “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” and his own “Lookback” represent Serrie’s love of traditional pop melodies and rhythms. “Land of Lyss” and “The Ancient of Days” display his unique talent of creating mood and emotion with special sound design.

Jonn Serrie – Lumia Nights

Jonn Serrie – Lumia Nights
MP3 @ 192 Kbps | 58:45 min | 2002 | 88.7 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Synthesist Jonn Serrie has always traversed a spectrum between deep space excursions and sentimental pop melodies. He charts a similar course on Lumia Nights, creating ambient lounge music full of breathy synthesizer pads and cocktail-bar-at-midnight moods. He even covers the jazz standard, “Autumn Leaves” to cloyingly bad effect. Just think Lawrence Welk plugged in. The lounge rhythms are offered up with none of the irony you might find in electronica artists such as Thievery Corporation or Loop Guru, whose grooves call up an iconography that’s twisted on its head. It’s not until “Deep Mystery” that Serrie floats off into the night sky with shimmering synthesizer textures that recall some of his Planetary Chronicles recordings, but even here, the synthesist goes for melodies that exhibit more saccharine than soul.

Jonn Serrie – Ixlandia

Jonn Serrie – Ixlandia
MP3 @ 256 Kbps | 52:24 min | 1995 | 107 MB | 10% Recovery Record

On this 1995 release, Jonn Serrie augments his patented space-music minimalism with a refreshing earthiness. The first four songs possess a tuneful momentum not often found in his other work, with a purring saxophone as the lead voice. Still, there is a vivid sense of adventure and otherness in the songs. “Ixlandia” is a smooth-jazz travelogue of alien terrain, and “Blue Lumia” has a vaguely Eastern flavor.

Midway through the record, a slower, more ambient mood takes over. Once again we are gently propelled into the outer realm by languid synthesizer tones and galactic textures. The final track, “Welcome Home,” smoothly blends the celestial with the earthbound: buried deep in the mix is the hushed recitation, in Italian, of a love poem.

Jonn Serrie & Gary Stroutsos – Hidden World

Jonn Serrie & Gary Stroutsos – Hidden World
MP3 @ 256 Kbps | 51:41 min | 2000 | 104 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Jonn Serrie is one of the leading space music artists in the U.S. His commissioned work for planetariums is legendary. Gary Stroutsos is one of the world’s leading flutists. He excels particularly on Native American flutes. These two virtuosos got together and collaborated on Hidden World, a cross-cultural hybrid. Serrie says, “(Music) exists to help us explore a sense of ourselves and our place in the universe.” According to Stroutsos: “…Music creates unity among peoples, cultures and nations. (It) can touch the soul, making it our universal means of communication.” Taken out of context, such philosophies can — and often do — seem maudlin. However, listening to this CD with those words fresh in mind clarifies and validates the philosophies. This music transcends hypocrisy and conflict — both internal and external. Serrie and Stroutsos do indeed touch the soul with their large and gentle atmospheres. The soundscapes are warm and comfortable. This CD will appeal to fans of Cornsmoke, Coyote Oldman, Zero Ohms, Douglas Spotted Eagle, and R. Carlos Nakai.

Jonn Serrie – Epiphany: Meditations on Sacred Hymns

Jonn Serrie – Epiphany: Meditations on Sacred Hymns
MP3 @ 256 Kbps | 58:43 min | 2005 | 122 MB | 10% Recovery Record

With Epiphany: Meditations on Sacred Hymns, Serrie returns to his roots (he was once a church organist) to bridge the gap between space music and religious melodies of sacred hymns. This musical journey explores hymns of the mid-18th Century including Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” to the 19th Century American melody “Amazing Grace” to the modern choral piece “O Magnum Mysterium” written by Los Angeles Master Chorale’s composer-in-residence, Morten Lauridsen. Serrie also adds an original composition, “Light of Thy Countenance”, to this introspective collection.

Jonn Serrie – Dream Journeys

Jonn Serrie – Dream Journeys
MP3 @ 256 Kbps | 59:32 min | 2000 | 120 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Jonn Serrie is one of those artists who is able to create music that is both timeless and infinitely luxurious.

Jonn Serrie – And The Stars Go With You

Jonn Serrie – And The Stars Go With You
MP3 @ 224 Kbps VBR  | 40:39 min | 1987 | 73.9 MB | 10% Recovery Record

Jonn Serrie is at his best when he composes and performs deep space music as opposed to contemporary instrumental new age. And the Stars Go With You is one of his gems. From the cover artwork on through the languid minimalism, this is special music. The timbres and textures are surreal and the atmospheres are sci-fi and warm. They invite listeners to go on a ride to the stars. Once out there in deep space, Serrie hooks into the stars and the stars are on the ride too. This is essential space music. It will appeal to fans of Stephanie Sante, Don Slepian, Constance Demby, and Michael Stearns.