Steve Gold Music: Blog

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 • AUGUST 4, 2011 • SPACE NEEDLE PARK • SEATTLE, WA




 
We are on our way to the Wanderlust Festival! Just before heading out to Lake Tahoe, we stoped in Santa Monica and played an amazing live music yoga class on the Promenade with Shiva Rea. Here is a cool write up and some great photos of the event.
 
This live music Yoga class was part of a Wanderlust national tour, and next, they'll be in Seattle onAugust 4th! The 90-minute all levels yoga class will be led by Gina Skene and Kristy Summers ofShakti Vinyasa, and DJ Karl Injex will be spinning tunes on stage throughout the event. No doubt that they'll rock our Seattle yoga community! Best of all, the event is FREE with registration!Click HERE for more information and to register. As a bonus, the first 200 registrants will receive afree Gaiam yoga mat. 
 
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I want to share something close to my heart. My new album, Let Your Heart Be Known, is coming out today! Birthing an album is like birthing a child in many respects. I know this to be true because I witnessed my son Theo’s birth two and a half months ago. Since then I’ve learned that there is nothing anyone can say to prepare you for the journey. You commit to your life changing, to say the least. 
 Like the conception of our child, it takes more than one willing party to conceive. In the case of my album it took a couple of incredibly talented people to help me clearly establish the sound and shape the content that would be the heart beat of the music.
 The first major player to join me was producer, Matt Pszonak. Matt had heard my first album, So Much Magnificence a few months before we ever met and had mentioned to a friend that he’d like to produce me in the future.  I was at Esalen accompanying Shiva Rea when Matt and I crossed [...]

A year ago today, the punk rock impresario and former Sex Pistols manager, Malcolm McLaren passed away. The anniversary of his death got me thinking about my own musical odyssey, and his influence on my path.
Los Angeles in the mid 80's was the epicenter of an exploding live music scene. My girlfriend at the time was always out at clubs meeting fascinating people. After a night of dancing she mentioned that she had met a very interesting man, and during their conversation she told him that her boyfriend was in a band. Before the night was over he gave her a torn piece of paper with his name and phone number scribbled on it. He said, "tell your boyfriend to call me."

I couldn't believe my eyes when I read his name on the paper. I had seen Malcolm McLaren the year before opening for the Clash. He was an innovator, and introduced scratching vinyl to the world. He had recently put out an album entitled, Fans, which fused opera and techno pop. I immediately called my music partner, [...]

Wanderlust has asked me to write a monthly guest blog for their Friday in Music and Dance issue. I have chosen to write the first entry about how music moves me, and to find out how music moves you.
"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak"wrote William Congreve in 1697. Most of the time interpreted as "music calms the savage heart," the word "breast" is often misquoted as "beast." It's easy to understand why. Even the most hardened-looking beast of a person must feel release from a burdened heart when they hear a favorite song or piece of music. I know it's true for me, and I imagine you are no different.
My heart has always been moved by the connection of music to the astonishing energies of nature. Some years ago, while following my walkabout of wanderlust, I ended up living near a beautiful waterfall on the wet and wilder side of Maui, Hawaii. Tucked away in the naval of this island, I sat sanctified by the falls nearly everyday. [...]