Midsummer Century

Jonn Serrie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 24, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Miramar
• ASIN: B000003INJ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #369,133 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lookback

2. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

3. Timeliness

4. Distant Moment

5. Velvet

6. Century Seasons

7. The Ancient of Days

8. Land of Lyss

9. The Last Secret

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lush and dreamy ambient for adults, January 2, 1999

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[e-mail] (Fairfield, Iowa) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Midsummer Century (Audio CD)

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.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Evocative, February 3, 2005

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J. Alfier (Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Midsummer Century (Audio CD)

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.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Full of Emotion, November 4, 1999

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JCV "JCVMusic" (Stamford, CT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Midsummer Century (Audio CD)

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.