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There is no escaping - We’re All In This Together
     A musical touch brings us together

      while we are social distancing
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New2TheBrain is a musical project whose focus is to slice into the paradigms of new thinking that are emerging in our world today.  Taking on themes that range from: environmental, to personal empowerment, global perspective, death, life, and “Fresh Philosophies”.

 

New2theBrain is that ah ha moment, when in an instant you see life in a way that changes the way you see life. 

 

Listen, engage, turn it up, take a bite. See what speaks.

 

We welcome your response,

 

Wa and Lawrence, New2theBrain

 

www.new2thebrain.com

www.letsplanetrecords.com

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To Listen or Purchase tracks to the entire album:

Apple iTunes Store:  New2theBrain

Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/New-2-Brain/dp/B00111KXHC

CD Baby:  https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/new2thebrain

Apple Music:   https://apps.apple.com/gb/artist/new-2-the-brain/id270066130

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Wa (Warren Dennis Kahn)

 

Recording artist, producer, songwriter, studio owner and engineer of Banquet Studios, Sebastopol, CA. www.banquetstudios.com

Human Development trainer and life coach for More To LIfe. www.moretolife.org

Husband, father and citizen of the world.

 

Wa's new release, New2theBrain on Let's Planet Records is the culmination of all his musical, personal, business and spiritual work. "My care for our world and all of its inhabitants along with some extremely valuable knowledge about life are expressed in this imaginative collaboration with my long-time friend and songwriting partner, Lawrence Stoller. The songs are light and deep at the same time. We hope you enjoy them even half as much as we enjoyed creating the album. Feel free to enjoy the songs, digest them, engage with them and see where they lead you."

 

Warren Dennis Kahn has been a professional musician and songwriter since the age of 12. For the last 40 years, he has been the owner and primary engineer/producer of the Banquet Studios, a fully professional digital multi-track studio where he has recorded and/or produced more than 500 music albums, many with well-known international artists. He has been nominated for 3 Grammys. He is a published songwriter with Screen Gems/Colgems-EMI, House of Cash, and Lieber and Stoller. He has been awarded numerous song festival awards as well.

 

Warren also has a broadcast and media production company called MediaSonics, which has won numerous awards in the commercial and music identity applications. www.MediaSonics.biz

 

Along with his work in the music industry, he is also a "Human Potential" trainer for the More To LIfe Foundation, an international educational foundation where he facilitates courses in personal growth and human potential as well as one-on-one coaching by phone.

 

Warren retired as an associate professor in the Music Department at Sonoma State University in 2004 where he taught courses in Recording, Songwriting, Electronic Music, Music Business, Live Performance and Studio Musicianship. His producing and teaching philosophy is based on "technology serving music and artistic expression." His personal purpose is to foster connection through the celebration of diversity and honoring of all life.

 

warren@banquetstudios.com

Call 707.823.3500

Wa & Lawrence Bios

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Lawrence Stoller

 

is an internationally recognized, award-winning artist who has pioneered the art of sculpting spectacular megagems, including several of the largest gemstone sculptures in existence. His work has been featured in numerous shows and galleries in the United States, from Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles to Fifth Avenue in New York, as well as international showings. His museum showings include the Furstman Institute of Mineralogy (Moscow, Russia), the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art (Elhurst, Illinois), the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.

 

In 2003 Stoller completed a commission for American Express, creating the centerpiece of the 9/11 Eleven Tears Memorial, located across the street from Ground Zero. His collaborative work Bahia stands as the cornerstone of the museum collection at the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, California.

An avid horseman and endurance athlete, Lawrence Stoller and his wife Sunni live, work, and teach in the shadows of the spectacular Three Sisters mountains in Bend, Oregon.

 

Coffee Table books: 

Frozen Light - The Eternal Beauty of Crystals

Primal Beauty- The Eternal Beauty of Crystals

•numerous images of Stoller’s incredible works, in high-quality four-color reproduction.

• Prose, poetry, and behind-the-scenes stories of how these works were created, making this more than just a glorious art book.

Lawrence Stoller

CrystalWorks Inc.

PO Box 7502

Bend, OR 97708

www.crystalworks.com

(541) 388-1721 

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REVIEWS

 

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New 2 the Brain predict the future of music and politics on mysterious debut

author: Derek Jensen

 

Recorded last year, there’d be no way New 2 the Brain could’ve predicted the odd shapes that the race for the presidential election has taken. Yet here is the mysteriously named vocalist/producer Wa and songwriter Lawrence Stoller describing “Politics Un Usual,” which aptly mirrors the confusion of voters caught between the excitement of promised changes and the comfort of experience. “The race is on/Going nowhere fast/The parade marches by/But what’s gonna last?” Wa sings as the track continues to dip into caustic commentary. Probably what’s most effective about “Politics Un Usual,” lyrically speaking, is that it doesn’t take the side of either liberal or conservative; it seems to have distrust of both parties and the campaign machines in general. With its funky bass and Steely Dan-ish vocals, “Politics Un Usual” is no stale CNN soundbite; it has a punchy groove with a Beatles-esque appreciation for dramatic tempo shifts.

 

New 2 the Brain are named perfectly. They do not resemble much of today’s alternative acts. They glue pieces of Peter Gabriel-ish English pop, world music, Genesis-styled progressive rock, and Steely Dan’s sleek jazzy rhythms and give birth to a quirky yet accessible sound that is totally their own. “We’re All in This Together” and “Born Naked” are the catchiest tunes here and will probably taste the sweetest initially for unenlightened listeners. But it’s New 2 the Brain’s more ambitious tracks that’ll eventually floor them. 

 

Derek Jensen

Post Alternative

 

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10 star review from Europe!

author: Adam Harrington

 

 

*Note: this review was written while the project was still entitled “Beating Hearts”.  The band’s name has been altered in this review to reflect the new title “New 2 the Brain”.

 

If Tears for Fears developed a fixation for Steely Dan’s velvety smooth jazz textures, they probably wouldn’t sound too different than [New 2 the Brain].  Ah, but this duo comprised of Grammy-nominated producer and musician Warren Dennis Kahn and artist Lawrence Stoller sinks its teeth much more deeply than such easy comparisons.  This is an impeccable partnership, a selfless give-and-take chemistry that bridges art and commerce.  Kahn and Stoller have created a world of wonders, using their imaginations to probe the limits of pop.

 

Pop?

 

Yes, pop- but not in the modern sense of the word when pop often defines cookie-cutter radio fodder.  Kahn and Stoller collaborate like master sculptors, each shaping his own mark.  Listen to the mesmerizing “We’re All in This Together” as cinematic hooks stitch together  poignant narrative which seems to be a conversation between man and the Earth itself.  “I’m tired of me versus you/Cause we’re really just one,” the Earth explains to man, seeking a truce.  In other words, the Earth is saying, don’t blame me if you can’t pollute your air and water anymore; treat me well, and we all live.

 

[“To the Middle of What Matters”] opens with atmospheric smooth jazz recalling Stin’s “Nothing Like the Sun” album albeit with Peter Gabriel-esque vocal flavors.  The Gabriel influence doesn’t end there; “Fresh Philosophy” and “Born Naked” have an immaculate sheen similar to Gabriel’s finest moments, especially in his landmark “So” LP from 1986.  

 

[New 2 the Brain] have a definite ‘80s feel sometimes, especially on “Fresh Philosophy” with its Howard Jones-like synthetic melodies.  But there is  warmth here that stretches back to the ‘60s, too, mainly the incandescent glow of late ‘60s Beatles.  Although the record has an uplifting feel overall, the group isn’t afraid to toy with darker tones as on “Beating Hearts”.

 

But it’s the craftsmanship here that’ll make you swoon and keep this record in the disc changer for months.

 

Adam Harrington

 

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Shotgun Reviews/ New 2 the Brain

author: Kyrby Raines

May 10, 2007

 

*Note: this review was written while the project was still entitled “Beating Hearts”.  The band’s name has been altered in this review to reflect the new title “New 2 the Brain”.

 

Chances are, [New 2 the Brain] might puzzle you at first; the group’s fusion of Beatlesque pop (the colorfully layered and experimental later years, not the early days of bar-band innocence); Pink Floyd-ish prog rock (the sonic moodiness of the Roget Waters period with the soaring, atmospheric hooks of David Gilmore’s reign); and Peter Gabriel-fueled worldbeat is a lot to absorb on initial listen.   But it’s also a richly rewarding emotional and intellectual experience, the kind of album that you keep returning to, hoping to find the answer to life’s mysteries.

 

Once To the Middle of What Matters becomes as familiar as a best friend, the duo’s vision becomes apparent.  [New 2 the Brain] aren’t taking the easy way out.  What they’re doing is incorporating diverse musical elements into a classic pop structure and making them flow seamlessly.  Kids, don’t try this at home.  The evocative title track triggers the senses into overdrive, unreeling a soundtrack score over a punchy AOR vocal.  It’s easy to imagine the influence of Gabriel’s So album here, but [New 2 the Brain] are more subtle.  While rock groups have been absorbing jazz elements for decades, [New 2 the Brain] does it more in spirit.  “We’re All In This Together” and “Something’s Terribly Right” (a clever play on words) capture the easygoing vibe of jazz with its freewheeling, breezy attitude completely intact.  In that regard, [New 2 the Brain] have pulled off what many prog acts fail to do and that is weave in jazz spices without making them white and sterile.

 

[New 2 the Brain] is  band with heart, soul, and intellect, and neither of them dominate.  Instead, they throw their resources together and jam.  We can learn from that.  The message here is that we need to stop fussing around and get down.

 

Kyrby Raines, Shotgun Reviews

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