Encounter (album)

For the 1966 Modern Jazz Quartet / Swingle Singers album of the same name, see: Place Vendôme (Swingle Singers with MJQ album)
Encounter
Studio album by Michael Stearns
Released 1988
Genre Space, ambient, new-age
Label Hearts of Space Records
Michael Stearns chronology
Floating Whispers
(1987)
Encounter
(1988)
Sacred Site
(1993)
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Encounter is an album by Michael Stearns, released in 1988.

Subtitled A Journey in the Key of Space, it's a collection of peaceful instrumental pieces, weaving synthesizers and various background sounds. It evocates landscapes and feelings of a summer night, the space and also the encounter with an UFO.

Track listing

  1. "Encounter: Awaiting the Other" – 3:29
  2. "Craft: Dimensional Release" – 6:29
  3. "The Beacon: Those Who Have Gone Before" – 7:01
  4. "On the Way: Space Caravan" – 3:48
  5. "Dimensional Shift: Across the Threshold" – 5:29
  6. "Within: Choir of the Ascending Spirit" – 3:53
  7. "Distant Thunder: Solitary Witness" – 5:40
  8. "Alien Shore: Starlight Bay" – 3:46
  9. "Procession: Sacred Ceremony" – 8:55
  10. "Star Dreams: Peace Eternal" – 4:06

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