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 Christopher Bird.

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  • 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 Christopher Bird. Coming after Stevie Wonder's 1976 Grammy Award-winning Songs in the Key of Life, Journey through the Secret Life of Plants was panned by most critics and was confusing to many fans, who didn't know what to make of the conceptual, mostly instrumental double album. Even so, such was Wonder's commercial appeal at the time that Journey went all way up to number four in the Rock and R&B Billboard charts in 1979. It is now considered by many to be a classic in its own right. It is also considered, in many listeners's minds, to be one of the earliest New Age albums of all time, mainly in part because of the nature and instrumental songs on the album. Although written mostly by Stevie Wonder, a couple of songs were collaborations with former wife Syreeta Wright and with Michael Sembello. Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" contained unusual synthesizer combinations including the first use of a digital sampling synthesizer, the Computer Music Melodian, used in virtually every track of the album. Journey is also notable for being an early digital recording, released three months after Ry Cooder's Bop till You Drop, generally believed to be the first digitally recorded popular music album. Stevie Wonder was an early adherent of the technology and used it for all his subsequent recordings. Stevie's moderate-hit song "Overjoyed" was left off this album and rewritten and re-recorded for his 1985 album In Square Circle. The cover of the album was chosen as the 53rd greatest album cover of all time by Rolling Stone in 1991.
  • Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants est le second double album de Stevie Wonder après Songs in the Key of Life sorti trois ans plus tôt. Il est sorti le 30 octobre 1979 sous le label Tamla. Il s'agit de la bande son du documentaire The Secret Life of Plants signé Walon Green et tiré du livre du même nom de Peter Tompkins et Christopher Bird. Cet album a été mal accueilli par la plupart des critiques, et a perdu les fans qui ne savaient comment réagir face à cet opus conceptuel essentiellement instrumental. Cependant, surfant sur la vague de succès des précédents albums, Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants a atteint la 4 place des charts cette année-là dans la catégorie album rock et R&B . Bien qu'entièrement composé par Stevie Wonder, les paroles de certains morceaux ont été écrites en collaboration avec son ex-femme Syreeta Wright, Michael Sembello et Yvonne Wright. Dans Journey through the Secret Life of Plants, Stevie Wonder utilise encore beaucoup les synthétiseurs et pour la première fois un échantillonneur dans la plupart des morceaux. Cet album fait partie des pionniers de l'enregistrement numérique puisqu'il est sorti seulement trois mois après l'album Bop till You Drop de Ry Cooder reconnu comme le tout premier album issu d'un enregistrement numérique. Stevie Wonder est amateur des nouvelles technologies et a eu recours à l'enregistrement numérique pour tous ses albums suivants. La chanson Overjoyed, composé pendant cette période, a été laissée de côté pour être réécrite et enregistrée en 1985 pour son album In Square Circle.
  • Journey through the Secret Life of Plants è un album di Stevie Wonder, originariamente pubblicato dalla Tamla Motown il 30 ottobre 1979. L'album è la colonna sonora del documentario The Secret Life of Plants, diretto da Walon Green e basato sul libro omonimo di Peter Tompkins e Christopher Bird.
  • シークレット・ライフ(Journey through the Secret Life of Plants)は、1979年に発表されたスティーヴィー・ワンダーのサウンドトラック。
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  • 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 Christopher Bird.
  • Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants est le second double album de Stevie Wonder après Songs in the Key of Life sorti trois ans plus tôt. Il est sorti le 30 octobre 1979 sous le label Tamla. Il s'agit de la bande son du documentaire The Secret Life of Plants signé Walon Green et tiré du livre du même nom de Peter Tompkins et Christopher Bird.
  • Journey through the Secret Life of Plants è un album di Stevie Wonder, originariamente pubblicato dalla Tamla Motown il 30 ottobre 1979. L'album è la colonna sonora del documentario The Secret Life of Plants, diretto da Walon Green e basato sul libro omonimo di Peter Tompkins e Christopher Bird.
  • シークレット・ライフ(Journey through the Secret Life of Plants)は、1979年に発表されたスティーヴィー・ワンダーのサウンドトラック。
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