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Leaving The Hive

by Steve Brand

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Paula Morris
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Paula Morris Natural sounds, lush beautifull flow! thank you for this soundtrack for a snowy day.
Berkdrums
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Berkdrums One of Steve's more experimental albums, with great and exciting style-changes during the tracks. Maybe this sounds crazy but I think it's Steve's 'Zappa-style'album. It's like leaving the hive and start a journey with a lot of different, new adventures... Leaving The Hive is another milestone in Steve's catalog, with so many moods and sound-creations combined, from fieldrecordings and even cat sounds to spacy and smooth synth-waves to darker moods, to hangdrum patterns with lovely sounds of a flowing stream... This album is definitely one to play several times in a row to discover it's inner-beauty and to immerse yourself in this dreamy adventure.. Favorite track: Climbing A Mountain That Never Was.
Richard Gürtler
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Richard Gürtler "Leaving The Hive" is another tour de force recording by Steve Brand, an ambient composer extraordinaire. "Leaving The Hive" might be a bit more experimental, maybe a bit more unsettling at times, but that's how it reflects the theme about the phenomena of Mother Nature and our presence in it. At the same time, this album is exquisitely transporting, exceptionally profound and significantly guiding with the hallmarking amount of peculiarly authentic mysteries thrown in. A true masterwork!!!
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.:. RELEASED 09-09-2016 .:. CDR and download .:.

Tracks:
leaving the hive | 21:45
a light spinning in a valley somewhere | 20:36
simple things | 09:32
climbing a mountain that never was | 22:07

“Leaving The Hive” is 4 tracks and 75 minutes of spacious, translucent, organic ambience created with pads, percussion and field recordings, that explores the mystery, delicacy, resilience, intricacies, simplicity, secrets and analogies that nature holds for us, all of which will ultimately lead to deeper and more meaningful understandings of our place and potential in the larger scheme of existence.

Ultimately, we must leave the comfort and safety of the hive of the known, of that which we have accepted as truth, to discover who and what we essentially are.

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“hermetic”

wasp's nest growing in the corner
seeking hive home safety
(little warrior insistently knocks on my door)

eagle's redtail
two circle lazily nearest the clouds
softer shriek

your surprise lilies are finally blooming
four years after you've gone

flags praying flutter
flint chime ditty
crow call laugh down a corridor of limbs
cicadas make a final sound
(how we all twitch just before we shed...
or go to ground)

so many hives
so many homes
so many other times
so many other places

but in our particular nest
something more graceful
something more grand
is patiently unfolding this time 'round

(even more supernatural processes)

wait...here comes the sun
from behind that cloud...
again...gone...again...

©sbrand2016

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released September 9, 2016

Bees on “Leaving The Hive,” benboncon, FreeSound.org. Voice on “A Light...” Miette Brand. Additional sound on “A Light...” created with Eno's Bloom app.

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Steve Brand

Steve Brand originally recorded and released in the experimental genre under the name “Augur,” with more than 20 limited edition releases on independent labels. In 2003, Steve began creating in the “ambient” genre under his own name. He has issued more than 40 self-released disks, as well as a number of solo and collaborative releases on AtmoWorks, Hypnos, Relaxed Machinery, txt and Databloem. ... more

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