Release Date: June
14, 2014
Label: New
World Music
Serrie uses an electronic medium to capture evocative
imagery that spans the cosmos. In the first track “Day Star” the title track
from his newest album, Day Star, the
album opens up to a slight hum, like the opening of a planetarium show. If you
just sit back, you can see the lights flicker in your mind’s eye as the stars
burst into a story all their own. The heavens hold many secrets, but Jonn
Serrie might just have an inside track to a few of them. Tendrils of sound
reach up and grab you, pulling you into the dark abyss of space, letting you
float on clouds of vaporous gasses and natural wonderment. In this music, I
could see the planets spin and the universe move in a breathless pace of
electronic splendor.
“Eden’s Waypoint” is a climb into the electronic realms
of the vast canvas that are the heavens. Tinkling chimes and electronic blips
are surrounded by swipes of sound like a radiant brush of color across velveteen
blackness. There is much to be seen in the landscape of this piece. It is a
voyage of discovery in a land as foreign to us as we are to it, but still we
seek it out. The human heart is never content to just be…it always wants to see
across the next horizon.
“The Sum Over Histories” is the last piece on the album
and one of the most effervescent. While all the pieces were celestial in
nature, this song delved into the deep and hallowed mysteries of space and all
of its frontiers, both in our hearts and in our imaginations. All of the books
that take us to far off galaxies, namely the Alastair Reynolds series can be
found within each note. Heinlein, Herbert, Moon, Cook and many more are other
authors ruminating with a deep space feel. Hollow sounds, wispy sensations, electronic
pulses and the complexity of a composition that transcends music into a work of
the soul is what this piece is all about. If you want to experience a walk
through space and time, listen to “The Sum Over Histories.”
Jonn Serrie is a revolutionary voice in the pursuit of
celestial electronic music. His work encapsulates the deep mysteries of space
with the human desire to explore yet another blank canvas. It is a beginning.
It is the before and ever after. It is the music of the great beyond and that
which will never be discovered. That is space…open…wild and free. One of the
last unknowns and Jonn Serrie has crafted its soundtrack with artful electronic
and brilliant compositions that have been heard at planetarium shows and on
several albums. “Day Star” is the
perfect end to a stressful day and the perfect gift for sci-fi fans.
5/5
Stars
Key
Tracks: The Sum over Histories, Day Star, Eden's Waypoint
Tracks:
1. Day Star
2. Galaxy Prime
3. M-Theory
4. Eden's Waypoint
5.The Antares Rift
6.Quantum Seas
7.The Sum over Histories
Tracks:
1. Day Star
2. Galaxy Prime
3. M-Theory
4. Eden's Waypoint
5.The Antares Rift
6.Quantum Seas
7.The Sum over Histories
August 14, 2014
Review
Provided By New Age Music Reviews
