The makers
You do not need the machine. You need the makers.
One of them spent fifty years learning how to write music that does not ask anything of you. The other was handed a breath at the edge of a volcano and told to pass it on.
Steven Halpern
He wrote the sound you let go to.
In 1975 Steven Halpern recorded Spectrum Suite — music with no beat, no melody to follow, and nothing driving it forward. At the time there was no shelf to put it on. It helped create one.
Fifty years and more than fifty albums later, the method has not really changed: compose below sixty beats a minute, refuse the percussive pulse, tune to 432 and 528 Hz, and give the nervous system nothing to brace against. He calls it anti-frantic music.
Deep Alpha earned a Grammy nomination for Best New Age Album in 2013.
Grammy nominated, 2013 · 50 years · 50+ albums · Spectrum Suite, 1975
“I let the music lead me. I become the instrument of the instrument.”
Steven Halpern
Kahu Kāhealani
She carries a breath that was handed to her.
Kāhealani is a Hawaiian kahu — a keeper, a guardian of what is sacred. Her practice comes out of lomilomi, lāʻau lapaʻau and hoʻoponopono, learned from kūpuna rather than from books.
In 2008, one week before he passed, the kahuna Papa K. Kepilino brought her to Halemaʻumaʻu at Kīlauea and gave her the initiation of the Sacred Hā breath, along with permission to offer that blessing to others. It was the last time she saw him in his body.
She studied lomilomi with Aunty Margaret Machado, who called it loving touch, and her hoʻoponopono lineage runs through Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona. In every session, the pule and oli are hers.
Sacred Hā · Lomilomi · Hoʻoponopono · Pule & oli
“I do not profess this to be the only way. I share that, mahalo to the ancient ones, it is a very powerful and effective way for healing the Hawaiian heart, and the hearts of all humanity.”
Kahu Kāhealani
Together
One writes it. One blesses it.
What it adds up to
Fifty years of sound. A thousand years of ceremony. They met after the fires.
The division of labour is exact. Steven composes and masters; the music is finished before it ever reaches ceremony. Kāhealani then carries it into pule and oli and seals it with the Sacred Hā — the layer no studio and no device can produce.
Nobody has put these two things in the same file before. A lineage that goes back further than the written record, and the frequency technology of the present decade, doing the work once so that you never have to book it again.