For the past several years, Darrell Burgan has focused his musical efforts under the Palancar name on live ambient improvisations. As a result, his recent album releases have been almost nothing but recordings of those live performances. In early 2009, however, Darrell was inspired by Chuck van Zyl of Star's End Radio to attempt a sequel to his 2003 commercial release Elysium Planitia. This new Earth Mantra release, an album composed and produced entirely in the studio, is that sequel.Where Elysium Planitia was thematically a virtual tour of the planet Mars, Serenitatis is instead a journey to Earth's moon, and to all the beautiful places that can be found there. The music covers several styles of ambient and electronic music, ranging from pulsing Berlin-inspired electronica, to beatless tone poems, to ambient new age.