Track Listing

1. Lookback
2. Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
3. Timeliness
4. Distant Moment
5. Velvet
6. Century Seasons
7. Ancient of Days
8. Land of Lyss
9. Last Secret

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #115824 in Music
• Released on: 2002-09-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Lush and dreamy ambient for adults
You float through this music on soft and languid clouds of syth while the haunting melodies are carried often by acoustic instruments. Jonn Serrie is so tasteful. With this album he began his move away from planetarium space music, a genre of which he was the absolute master, to something more romantic. This is wonderful music for making love, bodywork, dreaming and astral traveling. It has a heavenly, otherworldly tranquility to it. Throughout, this music is refined and intensely well created.You think of Serrie as a composer with historical echoes of Ravel and Debussy,only what he writes is 50 years ahead of any other ambient composer.

Evocative
Before I purchased this CD I discovered it on an internet radio broadcast. There was a powerfully pastoral salience to Serrie's music that emerged above the other new age selections I was listening to that caused me to pause and go to my computer and see what was playing; each time I checked it was 'Midsummer Century.' I find 'Midsummer Century' more evocative of a deeper peacefulness than I found in recordings of similar genre.

Full of Emotion
This is one of my favorite Jonn Serrie albums. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is written with tremendous emotion and a seeming longing for something unfulfilled. Only Jonn can make this kind of feeling come through a keyboard.