Michael Stearns: Ancient Leaves


A later 70’s California New Age record that has a much more spacey sound than most. Reminds me a whole lot of the first few Klaus Schulze solo lp’s. Two side-long cosmic drones consisting of layered electronics and hypnotic wordless voices. Stearns’ best record by far. He went on to make a several more in the 80’s that really don’t do it for me. Another cool thing is that it’s a pretty easy record to find – here in CA, at least.

5 Comments

  • Douglas says:

    Dude, Planetary Unfolding steps all over this record.

  • hcrink says:

    You think? I’ll have to give that another listen…

  • jeremy says:

    Thanks again Jeff for my copy, nice late night listening…

  • mylatency says:

    just got this recently from the 10k dig, haven’t listened to it yet lol

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