Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants was Stevie Wonder's most confusing, under-rated and under-appreciated work, out of a nearly 20 year career up to that point. Released in 1979, it was a soundtrack to the documentary of the same name directed by Walon Green. Stevie Wonder is a legend in rock and pop music history. ... Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants was Stevie Wonders most confusing, under-rated, and most under-appreciated work, out of a nearly 20 year career upto that point. ...

The album went to number four in the Rock and R&B Billboard Charts in 1979. An example of a Billboard Magazine. ...

Written mostly by Stevie Wonder, a couple of songs were collaborations with former wife Syreeta Wright and Michael Sembello. Stevie Wonder is a legend in rock and pop music history. ... Syreeta Wright (August 3, 1946 - July 6, 2004) was a singer/songwriter, and former wife of Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, and Michael Bolton. ... Michael Sembello was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 17, 1954 He began his career as a professional musician by becoming a studio guitarist, and his credits include working with, or writing for, a Whos Who of popular music. ...

This album contained unusual synthesizer combinations and mostly instrumental. It was widely considered a mediocre follow-up to Stevie Wonder's 1976 Grammy Award winning album, Songs in the Key of Life. The term synthesizer is also used to mean frequency synthesizer, an electronic system found in communications, or video synthesizer. ... Stevie Wonder is a legend in rock and pop music history. ... The Grammy Awards (originally the Gramophone Awards), presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American... Songs in the Key of Life is a landmark album by Stevie Wonder, released on September 28, 1976 (see 1976 in music). ...

It is 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. In digital recording, the analog signal of a motion-picture/sound is converted into a stream of discrete numbers, representing the changes in air pressure (chroma and luminace values in case of video) through time; thus making an abstract template for the original sound. ... Ry Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is a guitarist especially well known for his slide guitar work. ...

TRACK LISTING: (All Songs Written And Composed by Stevie Wonder, except as noted)

1. Earths Creation
2. The First Garden
3. Voyage To India
4. Same Old Story
5. Venus Flytrap And The Bug
6. Ai No Sono
7. Seasons
8. Power Flower
9. Send One Your Love (Instrumental)
10. Race Babbling
11. Send One Your Love (partly written by Michael Sembello)
12. Outside My Window
13. Black Orchid
14. Ecclesiastes
15. Kesse Ye Lolo De Ye
16. Come Back As A Flower (lead vocals and lyrics by Syreeta Wright)
17. A Seeds A Star Tree Medley
18. The Secret Life Of Plants
19. Tree
20. Finale

External links

• IMDB
• Official site