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- About Me:
- I have been making music in the experimental realm since the early 90's under the name, "Augur," with more than 20 limited edition releases on various independent labels. In 2003, I began creating in the "ambient" genre under my own name. I describe this change in moniker and musical expression as, part of the process of moving out of my head and more into my heart. Since then, I have issued a number of self-released disks, as well as releases on the esteemed U.S. labels, Hypnos and AtmoWorks, and the Italian label, Afe.
Selected tracks have been featured on Stephen Hill's nationally syndicated radio show "Hearts of Space" on two occasions (October 2007 "Darkwater" edition and August 2008 "Reading the Bones" edition), and continues in rotation on SomaFM's DroneZone and StillStream.com. I was priviledged to be invited, along with 4 other artists, to take part in one of the few "Into The SoundCurrent" Masters' Classes with Steve Roach in September of 2007. In early 2008, Philadelphia's experimental dance troupe, SCRAP Performance Group, used selections of my music as a backdrop for a recent composition.
My music has been described as “ambient,” “tribal,” “ritualistic,” “a direct link to our ancient, and arcane ancestry” and “...not mere music, but an almost shamanic attempt at deconstructing our interpretation of reality, by connecting us to an anti-technological, primal psyche.”
In addition to his sound work, Steve is a Reiki Master, trained energy healer and visual artist who is: “Committed to the idea that art/music, more than being just an object for sale, is actually a fluid and transformative process that opens us up to new possibilities that create the potential for healing spiritually and physically, and connects us via it’s roots in our common ancient past with it’s wellspring in the depths of our larger selves. The results of this process are sound maps of/to lost and uncharted realms of Being. Unfortunately, it’s very easy these days to reach for the cynical, hyper-rational, reductivist yes/no answers of the past. Instead, I choose to reach into the gray areas of feeling, intuition, the unknown—in doing so, I make music that is intended to expand, move and heal.”
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"To you it may seem that sound and light are two separate things, because from your point of view you perceive light with your eyes and sound with your ears. Because you use two separate areas of perception on your body, it seems that sound and light are separated as well. In actuality, they are very connected. They wind themselves around one another because they both carry information.
"Many of the structures built on this planet, particularly ancient sacred sites, have information stored within stone. In the same way, you have information stored within the bones of your skeletal form. When you allow sounds to move through you, it unlocks a doorway and allows information to flood into your body. It also penetrates the ground, affecting the vibrations of Earth and allowing a rearrangement of a molecular alignment of information to take place. Those of you who use sound when you are working on others' bodies bring about a rearrangement of the molecular structure and create an opening for information to flood in. This kind of work will become more and more profound.
"Sound is a tool for transformation. Keepers of Frequency, which is what we are encouraging you to become, learn how to modulate the frequency they hold through sound. Sound can penetrate any substance, move molecules, and rearrange realities."
- Barbara Marciniak "Bringers of the Dawn"
- Best album(s) of all time?
- My "desert island" playlist: Vidna Obmana - Crossing The Trail | Temps Perdu? - Earth Story | Temps Perdu? - The Day the Earth Melted | Eno and Budd - Plateau of Mirror | Steve Roach - Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces box | Steve Roach - Artifacts & Origins | Vir Unis - The Drift Inside | Vir Unis - A Flame that Leaves No Ashes | Solar Fields - Extended | Ishq - Magik Square Of The Sun | Jim Cole - Innertones | Suspended Memories - Earth Island | Cheb i Sabbah - Sri Durga | Alio Die - Password For Ethnogenic Experience | Alio Die - Khen Introduce Silence | Max Corbacho - Breathstream | Aglaia - 3 Organic Experiences | Robert Rich - Echo Of Small Things | Robert Rich & Alio Die - Fissures | Robert Rich & Lustmord - Stalker | David Sylvian - Gone to Earth (second disk) | David Sylvian - Plight and Premonition | David Sylvian - Approaching Silence | Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans | Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow | Dead Can Dance - Spleen & Ideal | Lisa Gerrard, Patrick Cassidy - Immortal Memory | Amorphous Androgynous - Tales of Ephidrina | Future Sound of London - Lifeforms | Various - Baraka Soundtrack (as it is in the movie, not the chopped-up CD release) | Michael Stearns, Ron Sunsinger, Roach - Kiva | Michael Stearns, Ron Sunsinger - Singing Stones | Michael Stearns - MIddle of Time | Michael Stearns - A Light in the Trees | Thom Brennan - Vibrant Water | Thom Brennan - Formations of Storms | R.S. Thompson - Blue Day | James Johnson, R.S. Thompson - Forgotten Places | Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question (Leonard Bernstein & Philharmonic Orchestra) | Arvo Pärt - Miserere... | Arvo Pärt - Arbos | Claude Debussy - La Mere | Maurice Ravel - Afternoon of a Faun
- Favorite artist(s)?
- (In no particular order) Alio Die | Robert Rich | Vidna Obmana | Steve Roach | Suspended Memories | Jorge Reyes | Brian Eno | Harold Budd | Vir Unis | James Johnson | Föy | Disturbed Earth | Jim Cole | Michael Stearns | R.S. Thompson | Thom Brennan | Temps Perdu? | Max Corbacho | Aglaia | Coyote Oldman | David Hykes | Ishq | Aes Dana | I Awake | Solar Fields | Carbon Based Lifeforms | Asura | HUVA Network | Monolake | Cheb i Sabbah | Arvo Pärt | Lisa Gerrard | Brendan Perry | Steve Tibbetts | Björk | Radiohead | David Sylvian | Off The Sky | Isamu Noguchi | Andy Goldsworthy | Kryon | Tobias/Saint-Germain/Kuthumi | New ones are added every day...
- Are you a musician? What instrument do you play? Type of music?
- Yes. I am largely self-trained. Music for me is primarily an intuitive and emotional experience/process. My goal is to simply be as clear a channel for sound/music/light as possible. I use anything that I can extract a sound from...mics, keyboards, various flutes, udu, medicine and shaman's drum, bells, cymbals, gongs, rattles, whirly tubes, kalimba, kora, zither, field recordings, and voice.
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“The First Day Unnamed” (w/ Disturbed Earth) on AtmoWorks.com, Friday, Oct. 30
This album (a long form piece timing in at just over 71 minutes) literally grew out of the parts and pieces of my trilogy collaboration with Dean/Disturbed Earth that came out in 2008 ("Broken Gold," "Busy with Dreams," "The Rest of Time"). That said, this is not a continuation or regurgitation of those works. It is an entirely new piece that has it's own unique character and feeling tone. In the previous trilogy, Dean took my sounds and twisted, bent, re-sculpted them with his own sensibilities… Continue
Posted on October 27, 2009 at 5:00pm — 3 Comments
"She Covers The Sky" on AtmoWorks.com, September 25
Early in 2009, I had a recurring idea to make music that was dedicated to honoring the return to Earth of the divine feminine, or goddess energy. Female energy. When I have ideas that keep coming up over and over, as this one did, I never over-analyze them, as they find a way to come to life one way or another.
Central to the idea of the return of the divine feminine, is the idea that about 10,000 years ago (of course, this date varies, some say 5,000), there was a shift from matriarchal societ… Continue
Central to the idea of the return of the divine feminine, is the idea that about 10,000 years ago (of course, this date varies, some say 5,000), there was a shift from matriarchal societ… Continue
Posted on September 16, 2009 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment
“Because We Were Once..." Featured Album on StillStream.com
I'm very pleased to announce that my AtmoWorks.com release, "Because We Were Once Covered In Gold," is a featured album on StillStream.com for the next month.
This album was made when I was fresh from my experience at Steve Roach's "Soundcurrent" masters' class in late 2007. Matter of fact, the track for “Womb of Stars," chosen by Steve himself, was used as a bed for an evening of improv by the group. Heady stuff. For me, this disk is a sentimental favorite, as one of my albums where I found a… Continue
This album was made when I was fresh from my experience at Steve Roach's "Soundcurrent" masters' class in late 2007. Matter of fact, the track for “Womb of Stars," chosen by Steve himself, was used as a bed for an evening of improv by the group. Heady stuff. For me, this disk is a sentimental favorite, as one of my albums where I found a… Continue
Posted on July 31, 2009 at 5:30pm — 1 Comment
Steve Brand & Ishq Collaboration on AtmoWorks July 17
July 17 on AtmoWorks.com: Ishq/Steve Brand double disk collaboration: "Spiritual Science" and "The Voice From Home."
I've been an Ishq (Matt Hiller) fan for about 3-4 years. I found his work as part of my complete immersion in Ultimae material. Ishq kept showing up in the "If you like this, you'll like this" area of iTunes. I bought "Orchid" and was hooked. I love his atmospheres and beats, the delicacy and expressiveness of feeling, and his intuitive and spiritual approach to music. Really fee… Continue
I've been an Ishq (Matt Hiller) fan for about 3-4 years. I found his work as part of my complete immersion in Ultimae material. Ishq kept showing up in the "If you like this, you'll like this" area of iTunes. I bought "Orchid" and was hooked. I love his atmospheres and beats, the delicacy and expressiveness of feeling, and his intuitive and spiritual approach to music. Really fee… Continue
Posted on July 16, 2009 at 9:29am —
Steve Brand "Children of Alcyone" OUT NOW on Hypnos Secret Sounds
http://www.hypnos.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HOS&Product_Code=hss26
From the Hypnos store page:
2009. The second release by Steve Brand on our Hypnos Secret Sounds imprint, Children of Alcyone demonstrates the characteristic otherworldly quality of the artist's best work. Generally quite simple, at times singlemindedly minimal, this work is nonetheless possessed of a depth and complexity that are revealed upon repeated listening. Stretched-out drone structures combine w… Continue
From the Hypnos store page:
2009. The second release by Steve Brand on our Hypnos Secret Sounds imprint, Children of Alcyone demonstrates the characteristic otherworldly quality of the artist's best work. Generally quite simple, at times singlemindedly minimal, this work is nonetheless possessed of a depth and complexity that are revealed upon repeated listening. Stretched-out drone structures combine w… Continue
Posted on April 27, 2009 at 4:00pm — 1 Comment
Comment Wall (53 comments)
- At 12:25pm on February 3, 2010,
Mike Radice said…
- Hey Steve, I just saw the finished art for my album. Looks great, and thanks for doing the extra design.
- At 1:44pm on January 30, 2010,
Cee said…
- hi steve, thanks for the compliment, really appreciate it!
- At 6:01pm on January 15, 2010,
Phobos said… - Thanks Steve, and thank you for the superb artwork for the album
Regards
David
- At 4:42pm on January 10, 2010,
Phobos said…
- Thanks for the add Steve, your music and your artwork are outstanding
- At 6:31pm on December 24, 2009,
vadim holovanov said… - Hello dear Steve!Mary Christmas!Love,Peace&happiness to everybody! Silent night...
- At 4:19am on December 12, 2009,
zerofish9 said… - Hey Steve, nice imagery/design work (as usual ;) on the Drift album!~
- At 2:14pm on October 28, 2009,
Ensueno said… - Good work,Steve
especially love Lit From The Original Flame
all the best,
rudy
- At 12:15am on October 8, 2009,
pishrogabiano said… - Hello Steve,,,many thanks for welcoming me,,great site to be,,
peace,,,
- At 12:09am on October 8, 2009,
pishrogabiano said…
- Hello Steve,,i just want to tell you many thanks for welcoming me,,great site to be,
peace.
- At 3:11pm on September 25, 2009,
Dan Pound said… - Steve,
Congrats on your new release.
Will definitely check it out.
Dan
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