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About Me:: I have been an artist and musician all of my life. From 1995 to 2003, my experimental sound project went under the name, "Augur," which was dropped in 2003 after more than 20 releases on various independent labels. My main objective in changing the name was to reflect a change in attitude and feeling: to put it simply, I was moving more out of my head and into my heart, and the music began to change accordingly. I was moving away from what was, in retrospect, a largely intellectual, introspective pursuit, and more towards a mode of sharing, expansiveness, openness—naturally I began to feel the desire to have my music reflect these attributes.

What remained from my previous work as Augur, was the interest in the music of "aboriginal cultures," the investigation of the meaning and extent of “consciousness,” and an experimental approach to sound generation. For me, music is not only a way of looking inward and expressing one's self, but a way of reaching out to others, and ultimately expanding the boundaries of the world individually and collectively.

Finally, since becoming a Reiki Master and training in other forms of energy healing, I feel the strong desire to actively create music that projects those healing properties.

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Best album(s) of all time?: "Of all time"? Who knows. I prefer to think of it as my desert island playlist: Steve Roach - Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces box | Steve Roach - Artifacts | Vir Unis - The Drift Inside | Vidna Obmana - Crossing The Trail | Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans | Dead Can Dance - Spleen & Ideal | Temps Perdu? - Earth Story | Eno and Budd - Plateau of Mirror | 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 | Robert Rich - Echo Of Small Things | Robert Rich & Alio Die - Fissures | Future Sound of London - Lifeforms | Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow | Amorphous Androgynous - Tales of Ephidrina | Arvo Pärt - Arbos | Eberhard Weber - The Colours of Chlöe | Ralph Towner - Batik | Various - The Mahabharata Soundtrack | Various - Baraka Soundtrack (as it is in the movie, not the chopped-up CD release) | Peter Gabriel - Passion | Steve Tibbetts - Safe Journey | Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Shahen Sha

Favorite artist(s)?: New ones are added every day... Steve Roach | Suspended Memories | Robert Rich | Vidna Obmana | Alio Die | Brian Eno | Harold Budd | Vir Unis | James Johnson | Föy | Disturbed Earth | Exuviae | Jim Cole | Michael Stearns | Thom Brennan | Temps Perdu? | Coyote Oldman | David Hykes | Ishq | Aes Dana | I Awake | Solar Fields | Carbon Based Lifeforms | Monolake | :zoviet*france: | Cheb i Sabbah

Are you a musician? What instrument do you play? Type of music?: Sound sources include: traditional and "ethnic" musical instruments, found and handmade objects, toys, voice, microphones, field recordings, primitive electronics and more sophisticated electronics. Emotional aspects of a recordings always come first. My recordings have 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."

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From the Robert Rich newsletter... "New CD: Zerkalo coming soon Zerkalo is a collaboration between Robert Rich and Faryus, (Andrey Sadovnikov) an ambient composer in St. Petersburg, Russia. Zerkalo means Mirror in Russian, yet another fond reference to a Tarkovsky film. Zerkalo is an intense and slowly moving deep ambient excursion. If you liked Stalker (the collaboration between Robert Rich and B. Lustmord) or Below Zero, then Zerkalo should interest you. This will be a limited edition of 1000… Continue

Posted on August 20th, 2008 at 3:59pm — No Comments (Add)

"Breathing Light" on Hearts of Space

“Breathing Light" (timing in at 20'40"), from the Hypnos Secret Sounds release, “Bridge to Nowhere” was included for the Hearts of Space episode titled, “Reading the Bones,” along with the work of Steve Roach, Brian Parnham, Brannan Lane, Numina, Biff Johnson and others. The show will air Sunday night, August 17, on National Public Radio. This is my second inclusion on HoS, the first time being October 2007 for the show entitled, "Dark Waters." Very fun to be on a radio show that has taken me… Continue

Posted on August 15th, 2008 at 9:30pm — 3 Comments (Add)

"Cahokia" Notes

I released a disk called "Cahokia" last year. This disk sort of got lost in the shuffle of events and self-releasing, so I was writing a few notes for CDBaby and thought they may be appropriate on the .ning blog space... Cahokia State Park stands on the Illinois side of the flood plains of the Mississippi, across the river from what is now St. Louis, and occupies 2200 acres, only a portion of the original size of the city. To date 109 mounds have been located, only 68 are within the park itself… Continue

Posted on August 5th, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments (Add)

Other Works by Steve Brand

Several disks of mine are available at the Hypnos Store, CDBaby.com, iTunes, Amazon.com: "Twilightmind," "Awakensong," "Cahokia," "Bridge to Nowhere" (Hypnos Secret Sounds in June), "Looking Into The Other." Hypnos on "Bridge To Nowhere" "Steve Brand has just recently started releasing music under his own name, after more than 20 releases in the experimental realm under the name "Augur." Now Brand has a number of recordings scheduled for release on Hypnos, and also on the AtmoWorks label, and t… Continue

Posted on August 5th, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments (Add)

Free Download_Steve Brand_Quiver of Dreams 2002

http://www.stevebrand.us/stevebrand.us/Quiver.html "The Quiver of Dreams" was my first album under my own name and my last album in a more experimental vein. I'd almost forgotten about this one. Revisiting, I can hear hints of what was to come in my more recent "ambient" work of the last few years. The album, timing in at about an hour, consists of processed sounds of prayer bowl, bowed string, old records, chanter, bells, found sounds, and a live outdoor improv "Quiver" was released in 2003 o… Continue

Posted on August 1st, 2008 at 2:00pm — No Comments (Add)

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At 1:58pm on August 12th, 2008, Igneous Flame said…: Hi Steve,

Thanks very much for your comments on 'HALO', I would agree that it is 'challenging' in parts. I'd like to think that it is varied as well, as each of the 2 tracks were made up from 5 'pieces'.

cheers
Pete

At 5:36pm on August 11th, 2008, SAVO said…: Cheers mate. I hope September will be the month we will definitely get the albums released!! We should do.

This is only the beginning for me. I shall do lots more in future.
Salv

At 3:59pm on August 4th, 2008, SAVO said…: Winds changing is a nice track u made with Dean.

Salv

At 9:50am on July 31st, 2008, peter james said…: thankyou so much steve. to hear that coming from an artist such as yourself...what can i say. humbled. beautiful stuff here on your page. superb mixtures and blends of textures and moods.. the great thing about this place, is that i rarely listen to music, for obvious reasons, and yet here, i find stuff i actually Want to listen to. thanks for that.

At 2:58pm on July 30th, 2008, Zenith said…: Beautiful ambience!

At 3:28pm on July 21st, 2008, Disturbed Earth said…: Congrats on the new release Steve, your outlook guides your music so wonderfully well and affects those who listen.
Dean
Disturbed Earth

At 4:22pm on July 10th, 2008, peter james said…: hi steve, and thanks. great to connect with you on here. it's strange (or maybe not so), that even though we all do our own "thing", many of us share the same processes for "getting there". you do indeed create a sense of peace, or at least a place of peace, with your work steve. cheers. it's been an enlightening and strange day, on quite a few levels.

At 3:40pm on July 10th, 2008, Igneous Flame said…: Hi Steve,

Thanks very much for the comments. I actually do have a track called 'Formless'.

I very much enjoyed reading your comment on the 'I listen to my own stuff a lot'. I thought it was far more relevant and interesting than my somewhat 'dry' contribution.

cheers
Pete

At 12:53pm on June 12th, 2008, Kirk Watson said…: Congratulations on your Hypnos release! I am excited to see that you will be releasing music with AtmoWorks as well. These two labels have greatly enriched this genre.