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| Sorcerer | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 5 reviews)
Sales Rank: 110022
Category: Music
Artist: Michael Stearns & Ron Sunsinger
Publisher: Spotted Peccary
Studio: Spotted Peccary
Manufacturer: Spotted Peccary
Label: Spotted Peccary
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 600028110127
EAN: 0600028110127
ASIN: B00004WKBS
Release Date: September 12, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | The Little Smoke | | • | Flyers: The Landing of Inorganic Life | | • | Portal | | • | Between Parallel Lines | | • | Journey to the Underworld - Michael Stearns, Sunsinger, Ron | | • | The Realm of Magical Beings | | • | Sendero | | • | The Eagles Emanations | | • | Humito Final | | • | Cicharisca: Finding the Path With Heart - Michael Stearns, Sunsinger, Ron |
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After six years without any new recordings, pioneering ambient artist Michael Stearns has unleashed a torrent of music with three releases on his own Earth Turtle label and this CD with Ron Sunsinger on Spotted Peccary. In a way, Sorcerer is an extension of their 1994 album, Singing Stones, but Sorcerer is an even more abstract and experimental work. Inspired by the spiritual writings of Carlos Castaneda, Stearns and Sunsinger create a dark and perilous world. On an album that's more sound design than music, they mix electric and acoustic sounds from prepared guitar to bowed metal with environmental recordings. Electronically processed, reversed, and otherwise distorted, they emerge with a surrealism that makes Dali seem like a hardcore realist painter. There are no rhythms to grab onto and no melodies to speak of until the very last track, when Peruvian shaman Don Augustine Rivas sings an Ayahuasca Icarro song. Until that respite, it's a tableau of demonic groans, shuddering metal on metal, and turbulent free falls, all orchestrated into a shifting, enveloping, and precarious soundscape. --John Diliberto
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Takes you to a very different place in your mind January 5, 2001
Looking for a mysterious place to travel to? This is your ticket there. It's so hard to find something besides music and sounds that make you feel like taking a nature walk. They're a little too sweet. Not this one. This one has meat on it. If you're really an explorer you can listen to this with the lights off. This is a great CD. I would and have recommended it to all of my firends.
Incredible atmospheres, one of Stearns' best ever December 6, 2000
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
The most significant recording in ambient/space music since Steve Roach's 1996 masterpiece "The Magnificent Void", the Stearns/Sunsinger collaboration "Sorcerer" also gets my vote as the best recording of its kind of 2000. What we have here is not only a sonic tribute to the late Hispanic anthropologist Carlos Castenada, but also what is perhaps the most ingenious recording of ambient tribal experimentalism yet produced. "Sorcerer" is a follow-up to their 1994 work "Singing Stones" (on Fathom Records) and while in spirit it seems to be a large-scale offshoot of Stearns' contribution to the "Storm of Drones" compilation called "Reky into Dark Territory", it transcends that track with superior thematic development and sheer psychological and emotional depth. Perhaps part of the reason why both artists waited so long to record this music (they had read Casteneda's books during the early 1970s) may be due to waiting for the right developments in sound recording technology to come about. If this is in fact the case (as I believe) then it was one of the wisest decisions for both artists, but for Stearns in particular, "Sorcerer" contains some of the most significant music of his entire career, the sheer power of which is only matched by "Lyra", "Chronos" and "Encounter". Utilizing everything from synths, prepared electric guitar, and bowed metal instruments, the disc effortlessly slides from near quiet contemplation ("Flyers: The Landing of Inorganic Life")to an unsettling form of ecstasy ("Portal") to a grating soundscape that resembles some of the early efforts of guitarist Jim O'Rourke ("Journey to the Underworld") to unearthly majesty ("The Realm of Magical Beings"). An uncharacteristic yet inestimable addition to Stearns' list of recordings, "Sorcerer" will inevitably go down as one of his most inspired and important efforts ever.
 Aurally Engrossing October 11, 2000
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
First Michael Stearns Cd I've listened to. Found the CD overall dark,aurally adventuresome,powerful. Take time out to listen to it relaxed in a dark room. Very interesting! Will certainly take one on an aural journey.
Awesome!! Michael & Ron did it again!! September 28, 2000
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is one of the most impressive CD's I've ever heard. At least since "Stalker", by Robert Rich & Lustmord. And I have listened to a lot of ambient and dark, electronic stuff. I completely agree with the previous listener. "Sorcerer" is a deep, dark and compelling jounrney into Castaneda's writtings. But, besides, it's a fascinating collection of dark soundscapes, rich in textures and amazingly powerful in execution. This work is even more abstract and complex than previous efforts, like Kiva (w/ Steve Roach) and Singing Stones. I strongly recommned this CD to anyone interested in dissapear into the music...
Fantastic September 23, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This CD is music for Carlos Castanada fans. Ive been a long time fan of Mike Stearns and this is by far, in my humble opinion the best CD he has done. The atomospheres are incredible and this CD will blow your mind. What a fitting tribute to Castanada and Don Juan. I counldnt concieve of anyone doing it better.
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