Galaxies

Kevin Braheny | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (July 1, 1991)
• Label: Hearts of Space
• ASIN: B000000X55
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #439,626 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Galaxies Main Theme

2. Starflight 1

3. Ancient Stars

4. Milky Way Rising

5. Galactic Sky

6. The Southern Cross

7. Starflight 2

8. The Pleaides

9. Starflight 3

10. Winds (Proxima Centauri)

11. Intergalactic Space

12. Ice Forests of Orion

13. Lookback Time

14. Going Home

15. Starflight 4

16. Down to Earth

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exactly what I was looking for..., January 4, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Galaxies (Audio CD)

I don't agree at all with the previous reviews that say this is "commercial sounding"... In fact, I don't even know what they are talking about. This CD is first rate. It reminds me of when I went to the San Francisco planetarium for the first time when I was little. The experience was charactirized by overwhelming awe and transport. When I listen to this, I know just how Ellie (in Contact by Carl Sagan - the movie version) felt when she space..."can't describe...no words...poetry..." This music is a soundtrack for experiencing the Numinous.

Buy this!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Endless space, March 30, 2000

By 

Michael (Iowa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Galaxies (Audio CD)

This album is great to have for someone who may be going through a time of reflection/decision or simply wishes to add new and deeper colors to a day thats maybe grown boring or predictable. When I first heard space music I was awed by how it draws you in for great periods of time, with seemingly no musical structure. But then I realized that it wasn't working most effectively as sheer music, but more as a muse for me to find meaningful rhythms within myself. Kevin Braheny is a master of this motivation, and Galaxies is undoubtedly Braheny in one of his finest hours. A true celebration into the bond between space and human consciousness.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful stimulus to the imagination., May 28, 2001

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Timothy P. Scanlon (Hyattsville, MDUSA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Galaxies (Audio CD)

Actually, I like and agree with both of the prior reviews. I've had this for a number of years, like it a lot, though, yeah, it is a tad commercial. While listening to it, I think of the novel "Starmaker" the author of which escapes me at this point, but I think it's Olaf Stabledon. Just ponder interstellar, let alone intergalactic space.

Then maybe I'll pull out a book or magazine with a color photo of, say, the Sombrero galaxy, or even neighbor Andromeda, and contemplate their trillion or so stars...or the atoms of my body which were one day part of a star....

There's a slight resemblance to Mike Oldfield too, though my apologies to those who either love or hate Oldfield. I just hear most of his music as kind of pointless but relaxing and mentally stimulating at the same time.

Well, in a nutshell, I'm delighted, though not surprised, that Amazon.com offers this. And I'll have to order some more of Braheny's music now. I hope I enjoy it as much.