''Lullaby for the Hearts of Space'' (1980) is an album by the American ambient musician

Kevin Braheny Kevin Braheny Fortune (born Kevin Braheny, 1952) is an American musician. He composes and performs quiet ambient music, often more melodic than other music of this kind. Biography Kevin Braheny was on the early design team of Serge Modular, a ...

. Both pieces on the album were performed live using

the Mighty Serge The Serge synthesizer ( Serge Modular or Serge Modular Music System) is an analogue modular synthesizer system originally developed by Serge Tcherepnin, Rich Gold and Randy Cohen at CalArts in late 1972. The first 20 Serge systems (then called " ...

modular analog synthesizer and were spontaneous, improvised compositions. The first track, "Lullaby for the Hearts of Space", was originally recorded for a

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radio special at KPFA-FM in March, 1980. The second track, "After I Said Goodnight," took inspiration from Emilie Conrad-Da'Oud's work ''Continuum'' and was created live during one of her classes. Unlike Braheny's other albums, ''Lullaby for the Hearts of Space'' was not released on

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until 2017, reportedly because Braheny was not fond of the results. Braheny asked Hearts of Space to not release additional copies after the existing copies had sold out and the request was granted. As a result, the album has been difficult to find. The recording was remastered by Braheny Fortune, and it was released on CD and digital formats on June 16, 2017.

Track listings

# "Lullaby for the Hearts of Space" – 35:38 # "After I Said Goodnight" – 33:02 The cassette's liner and label misprints the track times for the tracks of this album, with "Lullaby for the Hearts of Space" being 25:10 in length and "After I Said Goodnight" at 26:00. Coincidentally, the tracks on Braheny's prior album '' The Way Home'' are 25:10 and 26:00, respectively.

Personnel

– The Mighty Serge Modular

References

External links

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