 He developed then on synthesizers musical ideas that would feed his first solo albums.By 1977, Michael Stearns had formed a small independent record label (Continuum Montage) with Susan Harper and a close friend and investor, David Breuer.The same year came the first releases on tape, "Desert Moon Walk" and "Sustaining Cylinders", followed by "Ancient Leaves", his first album released on LP, in 1978.