Kevin Braheny is a most remarkably unique
space musician and architech of sound. He began his career doing soundtrack work in the mid 1970's in his Los Angeles post studying from the
Vandercooke College of Music in Chicago. He has collaborated with many other (more often, better known) contemporaries including
Michael Stearns,
Steve Roach,
Malcom Cecil and
Tim Clark.
Lullaby, for the
Hearts of Space record label was released in 1980 and shortly thereafter, signed on with them and subsequently released
The Way Home(1984, his magnum opus,
Galaxies(1988), and
Secret Rooms(1990).
Kevin's personally constructed signature instruments include his Mighty Serge modular analog synthesizer assembled in 1977 by Serge Tcherepnin. His trademark is the Steiner EWI(electonic woodwind instrument), which he built from design by Nyle Steiner. His later collaborative works include Rain(1995), The Spell(1996), Desert Solitaire(1989), and Western spaces(1990).