Michael Stearns

Michael Stearns creates sound design for films, often more about texture and mood than melody or rhythm. Given their disparate origins, it's striking how well the pieces hold together as an album. The Storm is an excursion into deep, unrooted ambience. Transforming space with swirling layers of sounds. Here art is music think surrealistic landscapes. Strange, dark, moody and beautiful. Techno-tribal trance work with plaintive flute melodies and hypnotic hand percussion, with deep but wonderful melancholy that takes you to places you can only imagine