When musical artists Michael Stearns and Ron Sunsinger first encountered the books of Carlos Castaneda in the 1970's, they say it forever opened a doorway into the strange, vision realms described by the Yaqui Sorcerer, Don Juan. Inspired by years of practice walking the deserts and mountains of the Southwest, experimenting with the techniques described in Castaneda's accounts, the two created this album as a tribute to the late writer.
It's a stunning, shape-shifting musical journey into the non-ordinary realities of the sorcerer's world. Deeply ambient and ever morphing between the extremes of light and shadow to reveal a landscape that is both beautiful and dangerous, serene and stormily surreal. Do not file under "easy listening", this is surprising, strong audio medicine!
One customer described it as "the audio equivalent of a nightime walk through the high desert with a bellyful of peyote and a pinch of Datura".