Don Robertson was born in 1942 in Denver, Colorado, and began studying music with conductor and pianist Antonia Brico at age 3.
He attended the University of Colorado, the Juilliard School of Music, and the Institute of Ethnomusicology at UCLA, and has studied composition privately with composer Morton Feldman, counterpoint with Leonard Stein, tabla with Swapan Chaudhuri and Shankar Ghosh, and ragas with David Trasoff.
The album, produced by Abe "Voco" Kesh (who also produced rock band Blue Cheer, which some critics consider the first heavy metal band), also incorporated music based on the duochord along with some of the first heavy metal music recorded.
A collage, created by Robertson for the back cover, was intended to represent the polarization of dark and light in the U.S.[1] Robertson recorded his second new-age album Celestial Ascent in 1979 and released it on his DBR Music label into the burgeoning new-age genre.
Purchasing synthesizer keyboards the following year, he recorded Resurrection, his first album of pop-classical music.