Michael Garrison (musician)

Michael Garrison (born on November 28, 1956 in Roseburg, Oregon, died on March 24, 2004 in Bend, Oregon) was a synthesist from Oregon, United States.

While studying music at the University of Idaho, he started to form the basis for his first release on his own label, Windspell Records, later known as Garrisongs Music. The original work was titled In The Regions of Sunreturn and Beyond and was created under the impression of the Voyager missions. Later he signed with BMG in 1980, the title was changed to In The Regions of Sunreturn.

He was influenced by the European innovators of electronic music, like Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, and Jean Michel Jarre.

Discography

Albums

• In the Regions of Sunreturn (1979)
• Prisms (1981)
• Eclipse (1982)
• Point of Impact (1983)
• Images (1986)
• Aurora Dawn (1988)
• An Earth-Star Trilogy (1989)
• The Rhythm of Life (1991)
• Live: Volume 1 (1995)
• Live: Volume 2 (1995)
• Brave New Worlds (1998)

Best of compilations

• A Positive Reflecting Glow (1992)
• Tranquility Cove (1992)

Compilation contributions

• Wolkenreise: Zwischen Traum und Phantasie (1985)

Tribute album

• To the Sky and Beyond the Stars: A Tribute to Michael Garrison (2005)

External links

• official web page Internet archives (state of oct. 24, 2005).
• Michael Garrison at Allmusic
• Michael Garrison at Discogs
• Mark S. Tucker, Perfect Sound Forever: Michael Garrison, April 2007. Retrieved on July 3, 2008.
• Music blog on Michael Garrison, with various further links
• Michael Garrison, a belated farewell
• Several tracks of Michael Garrison can be listened at at Youtube, e.g. the Search from the album "In the regions of Sunreturn".