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Released: May 1980. Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" is an album by Stevie Wonder, originally released on the Tamla Motown label on October 30, 1979. It is the soundtrack to the documentary The Secret Life of Plants, directed by Walon Green, which was based on the book of the same name by Peter Tompkins and ...
May 9, 2019 · Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupThe Secret Life Of Plants · Stevie WonderJourney Through The Secret Life Of Plants℗ A Motown Records Release; ℗ 1...
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Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plantswas Wonder’s first new album for the best part of three years. He hadn’t intended it as “the new Stevie Wonder album” as such, more as a soundtrack he’d created for the documentary of the same name, but Motown, hungry for fresh material from its confirmed musical genius, pretty much marketed it as a new Stev...
To answer the big question: Stevie had the producer describe what was happening on screen, scene by scene, as a rough cut of the movie played, while the Motown genius worked on composing the music, and the engineer, Gary Olazabal, assisted with defining the length of each piece. Simple, when you’re Stevie Wonder.
Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants starts slowly; you’re immediately aware that it’s going to be high on soundscapes and mood, and low on funk. A lot of it, such as “Voyage To India,” is essentially classical in tone – in this instance, both Western and the classical music of the subcontinent. There’s low-key mystery in “Earth’s Creation” an...
Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plantsis an exceptionally long suite of often lengthy mood pieces in which “songs” are few and far between, and grooves in the funky sense rarely crop up. But there is beauty here. Stevie’s unquenchable desire for experimentation and love for melody are in full effect, and some of the magic and mystery of the bota...
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In nearly any appreciation of Stevie Wonder’s profound run of music, Secret Life of Plants serves as a page break, a bookend, the arid valley after the vertiginous peak of the beloved Songs in ...
From the 1979 soundtrack "Stevie Wonder's Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants"
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Nov 30, 2018 · Journey with the progressive genius of Stevie Wonder in this 35 minute epic mix of the instrumental music from his 1979 theme album about plant life
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I saw critics be so critical of Stevie Wonder when he made Journey through the Secret World of Plants. Stevie has done so many great songs, and for people to say, “You missed, don’t do that ...
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