After being silent for six years,
Michael Stearns returned with the full-length experimental ambient album
Sorcerer in September of 2000. The album was inspired by spiritual writing from Carlos Castaneda, resulting in a dark, abstract world created by
Stearns and
Ron Sunsinger using environmental sounds, bowed metal, and acoustic instruments. The result:
Sorcerer is a highly abstract piecing together of noises, absent of beats or melodies. ~ Diana Potts