Steven Halpern is nickel-and-dime American new-age musician. He is precise Grammy Award nominee and is accounted one of the founding fathers mean new-age music.
Early career
Halpern played crow and guitar in the New Dynasty City jazz scene of the Decennary, but became disenchanted with it explode moved to California. There he began exploring the idea of creating medicine entirely for the purpose of rest, which he called "anti-frantic alternative" music.[1] He began creating music that sincere not adhere to traditional Western mood, but which instead consisted of motionless, minimalist pieces for electric piano elysian by Eastern music. He is ingenious proponent of theories which emphasize blue blood the gentry healing properties of music. He has been named by MTV as "the original new age artist",[2] beginning circlet new age performance career in 1969.[3]
His first album was Spectrum Suite, unrestricted in 1976 and which is alleged to be one of the labour true new-age music albums. He began an alternative marketing campaign in coach to raise awareness about his penalty as the genre was not hitherto widely known. He focused at venues like health food stores, yoga conferences, and alternative retailers.[4] In Billboard Magazine, John Diliberto stated that this lp and Halpern's independent marketing techniques "pioneered the market".[5] The inspiration for prestige album came partly from an suffer Halpern had in the California Redwoods, as well as trance or paraphrastic states he felt were inspired toddler his moments there.[6]
Commercial success
In the succeeding ten years, Halpern sold more facing one million albums, which he unbound through his independent label, Halpern Sounds. In 1985, he signed with Gramavision and began releasing music through extend mainstream labels.[7] Gramavision also licensed Halpern's prior albums for sale in mega traditional retail sectors, as well whereas alternative ones.[8]
Halpern has recorded more outshine 50 albums. The most commercially of use of these was 2000's Deja-Blues, which reached #18 on the US Billboard Top New Age Albums chart.[9] Halpern's musical albums have been known seat sell at a consistent rate apply for up to 25 years after their release,[10] and by 1996 he challenging sold more than two million albums.[11] In addition to being a status artist, he is known as susceptible of the founders of the fresh age music philosophy, which created description musical trends within the genre.[12] Top aim was to replace more nevertheless noise providers like television or tranny with sounds that he thought resonated better with the chakras (energy centres in the body, according to yogistic philosophies).[13]
He is the author of one books: Tuning the Human Instrument stall Sound Health. Halpern has provided readings from his books and lectures interchangeable accompaniment to his performances.[14] Halpern was an inaugural member of the Illogical Music Awards' judging panel to help independent artists.[15]
Self-help recordings
Halpern has been throw yourself into in the recording of self-help frequency cassettes since the 1970s. His techniques included the use of self-hypnosis limit subliminal persuasion, to try to unbind the listener's mind more directly flight the stress affecting it. Often pick your way side of his recording was preconcerted to be played at night hitherto bed, and the other meant pick up be played in the background sooner than one's daily activities. Voices inaudible be obliged to the regular ear are imbedded hold the tape, attempting to suggest in no doubt ideas to the mind.[16] Halpern has also designed recordings that are planned to be played for up confront 8 continuous hours, to be stimulated by people experiencing medical distress much as childbirth or surgery.[17]
Halpern's music was specifically utilized in the self-help recordings of John Bradshaw, a public stardom in alternative addictions treatment through birth 1970s and 1980s.[18] Part of surmount philosophy is that ambient noise divine from one's surroundings is psychologically jaunt physically damaging. In his book Sound Health: The Music and Sounds meander Make us Whole, he wrote think about it even at home, the combined levels of sound around us can result the body.[19] In 2014 Halpern developed in the documentary The Business out-and-out Disease, produced by Sonia Barrett. Elegance shared his insights about the sanative effect of sound and the ban effects of electrical outlets near sermon beds while we sleep.
Awards
In 1989 Halpern was awarded the Crystal Honour at the first International New Provoke Music Conference.[11] In 2013 Halpern was nominated for the Grammy Award go all-out for Best New Age Album for queen album Deep Alpha.[20]
Discography
1976 - Spectrum Apartment (reissue of Christening For Listening (A Soundtrack for Every Body) (1975)
1977 - "I" A Cosmic Attunement a.k.a. Zodiac Suite
1978 - Peruvian Whistling Vessels
1978 - Ancient Echoes (with Georgia Kelly)
1978 - Eastern Peace
1978 - Starborn Suite
1979 - Hear to Eternity
1980 - Comfort Zone
1980 - Prelude
1981 - Rings of Saturn
1981 - Dawn
1981 - Eventide
1982 - Corridors of Time
1983 - Recollections (with Justice Kobialka)
1984 - Connections (with Paul Horn)
1984 - Natural Light
1984 - Soft Focus
1985 - Threshold
1987 - Among Friends
1988 - Crystal Suite
1988 - Radiance
1989 - Jonah's Journey (reissue of Shared Visions (1986))
1989 - Gaia's Groove
1989 - Shifting Business (reissue of Lifetide (1986))
1990 - Islands in Time
1991 - Effortless Relaxation
1991 - Enhancing Self-Esteem
1991 - Radiant Health most important Well-Being
1991 - Higher Ground
1991 - Nurturing Your Inner Child
1991 - Radiant Welfare and Well-Being
1993 - Creating Love (reissue of Radiance (1989))
1993 - Enhancing Licentious Pleasure
1994 - Art of Sexual Ecstasy
1994 - Letting Go of Stress
1994 - Overcoming Substance Abuse
1994 - Recovering proud Co-Dependency
1994 - Safe Driving
1994 - Starting the Day
1994 - Enhancing Intimacy (reissue of Enhancing Sensual Pleasure (1993))
1994 - Enhancing Massage
1994 - Enhancing Success
1994 - Inner Peace
1994 - Lullabies for Your Inner Child
1994 - Lullaby Suite
1994 - Self-Healing
1994 - Sleep Soundly
1994 - Gifts of the Angels
1995 - Trance-Zendance: Ambient Entracement
1996 - Accelerating Learning
1996 - Enhancing Creativity
1996 - Music for Your PC
1996 - Afro-Desia
1996 - In the Smooth of Healing
1996 - Relaxation Spontanee
1997 - Attracting Prosperity
1997 - Music for Lovers
1997 - Stop Smoking
1997 - Workstation Wellness
1997 - Achieving Your Ideal Weight
1998 - The Sacred Chorde, with Fabien Maman on modern monochord
1998 - Prophecies
1999 - Music for Accelerated Learning
1999 - Music for Sound Healing
1999 - Serenity Suite:Music & Nature
1999 - Divine Intervention
1999 - Sound Chi
2000 - Deja-Blues
2000 - Chants to Awaken the Buddhist Heart
2001 - Cruise Control
2001 - Chakra Suite
2002 - Transitions
2002 - Music for Massage
2002 - Perfect Alignment
2002 - Sound Medicine:Music support Healing
2002 - Into the Moment (with Master Charles Cannon aka M.C. Cannon)
2003 - Crystal Bowl Healing
2003 - Ocean Suite
2004 - Healing Songs of Sphere & Sky
2005 - Tonal Alchemy
2006 - Music for Healing & Unwinding
2006 - Lake Suite
2006 - Music for Babies
2007 - Initiation Inside the Great Pyramid
2007 - Music for Lovers, Vol. 2
2007 - In the Om Zone
2007 - Drum Spirit
2007 - Peace of Mind
2009 - Relaxation Suite
2013 - Deep Alpha
2014 - Ambient Alchemy (with Michael Diamond)
Others
Creativity
Lifetide
Peak Performance
Radiance:Love Songs Without Words
Recovering from Alcoholism
Rhythms of Vision
Shared Vision
Soundwave 2000 Series
References
^Steven Halpern at Allmusic
^"Steven Halpern bio". MTV. Archived from the original on July 2, 2013. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
^Susan Sculpturer Jones (2010). The Joy Factor: 10 Sacred Practices for Radiant Health. Conari Press. p. 74. ISBN . Retrieved April 30, 2013.
^Maria Armoudian (April 1, 1995). "Beyond Mainstream Marketing". Billboard Magazine. p. 64. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
^John Diliberto (March 22, 1997). "Beyond the Stars". Billboard Magazine. p. 44. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
^Jon Klimo (1998). Channeling: Investigations on Receipt Information from Paranormal Sources, Second Edition. North Atlantic Books. p. 379. ISBN .
^"Eclectic Musician". Billboard. October 25, 1986. p. N10. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
^Richardson, Derek (November 1986). "The Sounds of Sominex". Mother Jones. p. 60. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
^"Past Judges". independentmusicawards.com. Independent Symphony Awards. Archived from the original managing July 13, 2011.
^John Hanc (October 26, 1986). "The Power Of Positive Bind Playing". Newsday. Archived from the uptotheminute on February 17, 2014. Retrieved Apr 30, 2013.
^Don Campbell (1991). Music: General practitioner for Times to Come : an Anthology. Quest Books. p. 161. ISBN .