And the Stars Go With You

Jonn Serrie | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 24, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Miramar
• ASIN: B000003ILZ
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #292,413 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Gentle, The Night

2. Fantasy Passages

3. And the Stars Go With You

4. The Far River

5. Stratos

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic, July 19, 2004

By 

Ryan Johanson (Andover, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: And the Stars Go With You (Audio CD)

Jonn Serrie had already been composing music for planetarium shows for years, but the decision to begin recording albums changed his career. And The Stars Go With You was his first, originally released back in 1987, and it revolutionized the 'space music' trend and skyrocketed Serrie into ENA superstardom (that is, if he hadn't done so already). Now the album has only been made better with the addition of "And With You 2," a track that was obviously left off of the original printing, but is now, in my opinion, one of the best songs.

Serrie's is music you can just put on, lay back, and relax to. Let your mind go blank and get lost in the soundscapes. Play it all alone on a quiet night to get in the mood. Let moments like the gentle percussion on the second half of the titled track or the harmonies of songs like "And With You 2" and "Stratos" carry you away.

Some of the songs even sound like two or three-act musical dramas. Take "Fantasy Passages" for example. When this track begins, you can imagine yourself floating around lost helplessly in the darkest areas of space. When the music is occasionally broken up by deep, loud, rolling thunderous effects, after which the music slowly creeps back in, you can imagine falling into a black hole, then falling back out into the endless abyss (ok, I know it's not logical to fall out of a black hole, but you get the idea). Finally, as the song begins perhaps to lighten up a bit, with an echoing synth riff that repeats over and over again for the rest of the song, you can imagine your resolution - floating into the brighter areas of the universe, into places you know.

I guess I have nothing else to say except "just dream..." Put on this cd and let the stars go with you!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best drifting electronic albums of all time, February 24, 2000

By 

Michael Rittenberry (Nashville, Tennessee) - See all my reviews

This review is from: And the Stars Go With You (Audio CD)

Jonn Serrie can be awfully frustrating at times... over the past several years, he has ventured further and further into romantic style new age music, which quite frankly does not compare with his longer, more contemplative deep space music. AND THE STARS GO WITH YOU is firmly rooted in this latter style of music. All of the tracks on this album flow seamlessly together into a wondrous journey for late night travelers. "Gentle; The Night" is flat-out haunting music, with a gentle pulsing rhythm joining the beautiful melody. However, "Stratos" is the album's best track and stands as one of the best songs I have ever heard. Few songs reach the levels of both seeming simplicity and childlike innocence that this song contains... after listening to this album for almost a decade now, "Stratos" never fails to put me into a peaceful trance, and it stands as being one of the best fall-to-sleep-listening-to-it-with-headphones-on songs ever made.

In short, AND THE STARS GO WITH YOU is essential listening, especially if you enjoy the more atmospheric music of such artists as Tangerine Dream, Michael Stearns and Steve Roach. Don't miss it!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An exception, August 3, 2000

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Thomas R. Beighley (Lincoln, NE USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: And the Stars Go With You (Audio CD)

I remember purchasing this cd along with my first cd player from a high-end audio store in 1990. At the sales counter they featured about a dozen cd's, chosen, obviously, for their "dramatic" sound, so as to ensure the immediate delight of the equipment buyer. The selection was rather obvious also. . . London symphony plays something or other, mannheim steamroller xmas cd #37, Dark Side Of the Moon (suprise!) and, what's this? "John Serrie. . . new age & synthesizers", says my saleman. I sighed. The regular music stores were already closed, I had to have SOMETHING to listen to. I shrugged and added fifteen bucks to the check total. Other than Steve Roach and early analog stuff like Tomita and EL & P, electronic music hasn't held much fascination for me in many years. But this disc is an exception to the rule for the simple reason that there are some SONGS going on here, a few sound like they could have been written for a variety of instruments, not just synths. There is melody, tension, and emotion here. At the same time, it is extremely soothing and relaxing.