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Gentle The Night by Jonn Serrie

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Jonn Serrie Is An American Composer Of Space Music A Genre Of Ambient Electronic Music And New Age Music. He Has Recorded At Least 18 Albums And Worked On Projects For Lucasfilm IMAX Corporation NASA The United States Navy Hayden Planetarium Expo Seville And CNN. Serrie Has Been Composing And Performing Music For Planetariums Since The Early 1980s. His First Widely Available Album And The Stars Go With You Was In Memory Of The Astronauts Lost In The Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster In 1986. The Following Album Flightpath Contains Six Songs That Commemorate The Pre-Space-Age Test Pilots Of Edwards Air Force Base In The 1950s. Jonn Is A Pilot With Advanced Instrument And Commercial Ratings And Flies For The Civil Air Patrol As A Search-And-Rescue Pilot. Serrie's Next Album Tingri Was Based On A Remote Village In Tibet. It Was His Way Of Infusing More Spiritual And Romantic Emotion Into His Music. In So Doing He Strayed A Bit From His Space Music Roots But Without Sacrificing His Trademark Sound. In 1992 And 1994 He Made Two Albums In Which He Put His Earlier Planetarium Work From The 1980s On CD On Planetary Chronicles Volume 1 And Planetary Chronicles Volume 2. In Between In 1993 And 1995 Serrie Composed His Own Musical Science Fiction Story Based On A Fictional Century Princess In Midsummer Century And Ixlandia. In 1993 He Submitted A Song From His Planetarium Collection Called "Soft Landing" To A Various Artists Album Sponsored Largely By Steve Roach Another Prominent New Age Musician. This Song Is Only Available On This Recording. In 1997 Serrie's First Christmas Album Upon A Midnight Clear Was Released He Rearranged Known And Less-Known Christmas Songs From Around The World In His Unique Style. Due To Its Popularity Serrie Released Two More Christmas Albums Yuletides In 2001 And Merrily On High In 2004. In 1998 Serrie Collaborated With David Carradine On His Tai Chi Video Series And Released A CD Soundtrack Based On The Videos Called "Dream Journeys". Also In 1998 He Took A Trip To Shamanic America Which Resulted In His Musical Collaboration With Several Native American Elders On "Spirit Keepers". In 1999 Serrie Appeared As A Special Guest Of Honor At The 30th Anniversary Of The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Mission Which Was Held In Cape Canaveral. As The Final Act Of The After-Dinner Entertainment He Played A Specially Composed Song "Out Of The Blue" Which Has Not Been Officially Released. The Year 2000 Brought Serrie's "best Of" Space Music Compilation Century Seasons. On This Album Two New Songs Appeared Although "Deep Mystery" Reappeared On "Lumia Nights" Two Years Later In A Slightly Shorter Version. The Other Bonus Track "Andromeda Dream" Appeared On This Album. In 2000 Serrie Collaborated With Flutist Gary Stroutsos On The Narada Label On An Album Called Hidden World. Since 2000 Several Of Serrie's Albums Have Appeared On Independent Labels. 2002 Brought Lumia Nights A Space Romance Release On Valley Entertainment Composed In The Style Of Ixlandia And Midsummer Century. In 2003 He Signed A Contract With New World Music A Major Label In England Which Included The Reissue Of His Earlier Miramar Releases. 2003 Also Brought The Stargazer's Journey With Liner Notes From Famed Astronomer David H. Levy. This Was A Return To Form In Serrie's More Traditional Space Music Style. Serrie Took An Interesting Musical Turn In 2005 With Epiphany Meditations On Sacred Hymns Featuring His Arrangement Of Traditional Hymns And Psalms Which He Dedicated To His Grandmother His Primary Childhood Church Organ And Piano Teacher. He Followed This Up In 2006 With Sunday Morning An Independent Release For Autistic Children And Their Parents. A Portion Of The Profits From This CD Goes To Support For Autism Organizations In The United States. Also In 2006 Music From One Of His Albums Was Used In The Hit Hollywood Movie What The Bleep Do We Know!? Serrie Scored The Award-Winning IMAX Short Film Hubble Galaxies Across Space And Time As Well As The Popular Astronomy Software Program Starry Nights And Space.Com's Eyes On Mars DVD. In 2009 Serrie Released The Album Thousand Star. In 2011 The Album Sunday Morning Was Expected Be Released Available Worldwide. In 2014 The Album "Day Star" Was Released Available Worldwide On New World Music In 2017 The Album "The Sentinel" Was Released Available Worldwide On New World Music Jonn Serrie Founded The Galaxy Music Scholarship In 2001 A US$1000 Annual Scholarship For Graduating High School Seniors Desiring A Career In New Age And Space Music Composition. He Lives In Atlanta Georgia.

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