Glenn Grubbs: all instruments, some vocals, concepts, stories, and songwriting.
with contributions by: Christa Durand: Vocals on They Were Dancing As Dawn Broke, Engellar Tems Cella, My Great Escape, Those Who Forget The Past, Blur The Lines, 1000 Suns, I Am A Lone Wayfaring Stranger, and Reclamation Anita Frykberg: Vocals on Those Who Forget The Past Callie Fournier: Lyrics and sung/spoken vocals on Up An Atom
Image And Nation live as of 2-2-08: Glenn Grubbs: all music, live bass, video editing and stage design Christa Durand: vocals Amy Row: vocals Meghan Howard: vocals Kelsey Christie: dancing Kim Savage: dancing
There are other contributers and collaborators who will be credited as works are completed.
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The photos I'm using are mostly placeholders until some of the other artwork is finished. The are all used under the Creative Commons license. If you like them you should look up the photographers on flickr.com. They all have some phenomenal pictures.
Background:
Desert Sunset by Rootneg2
They Were Dancing As Dawn Broke
Crease In Landscape by Floato
Engellar Tems Cella:
California Desert by 4x4jeepchick
The Wind Blows West:
Desert Antlers by Cobalt123
The Wasted Lands
Sunset In The Desert by Hussain Isa
Those Who Forget The Past:
Rain In The Desert by Tundrastruck
All of the pictures you can view in the "Pics" area are individually credited
Influences
Enya, Peter Gabriel, Enigma, Patti Smith, Achillea, Mortiis, Fields Of The Nephilim, Jan Hammer, Mark Snow, Black Forest, Coil, Enio Morricone, J.R.R. Tolkien, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Stephen King
Glenn Grubbs began playing bass when he was 14. He has since picked up many other instruments. Most of his bands up to this point have been loud, high energy bands of various rock based genres. This project, Image And Nation, is very different from anything else he’s done.
Image And Nation began as a rather humble idea. Glenn thought he'd like to try his hand at creating some New Age music. He thought he'd make a little 5 song EP to sell at his other bands shows to folks who were interested. That humble idea was what he started trying to make reality on Dec 6th 2004. That humble idea grew. Although the original idea was to do a New Age project, it hasn’t quite turned out that way. There is still a lot of New Age influence on Image And Nation, but it has also incorporated elements of World Music, Western Film Score, Ambient Experimental and even a little dance (thus the genre Ambient Western New Age). Besides incorporating genres not always mixed with New Age music, Image And Nation also delves into emotional territory not always associated with New Age. Though many songs are meditative and peaceful, some are melancholy and contemplative. Some are joyful and vibrant. Some are even angry and somewhat aggressive.
Christa Durand and Glenn met when they were both attending Sonoma State University. She has spent her life in training as a classical and opera singer. They found that although they had very different musical backgrounds they shared many common views of music, art, and music as an art form. They have since found that they work very well together, and began collaborating on many of the Image And Nation tracks.
Image And Nation is not a real “band” in the strictest sense of the word. It’s technically Glenn’s side project. As such Glenn is the only real “member”. However, it can not be stressed enough how invaluable Christa has been to the project.
Through many starts, stops, collaborations both failed and successful Image And Nation has been in the process of creating 2 albums:
The first one, “Nomad” shall be released very soon. It will be 2 CDs clocking in at 1:39:11. It will have 16 tracks. Besides the music, there will be a visual and narrative component to the album. That will be discussed more as it comes together.
The tracks on this website that will appear on Nomad include:
Engellar Tems Cella
The Wind Blows West
The Wasted Lands
View From An I
The second, with the working title of “Worlds Apart” will probably be ready in 2010.
The tracks on this website that will appear on that album are:
They Were Dancing As Dawn Broke
My Great Escape
…And So It Goes On.
Besides her work with Image And Nation, Christa frequently performs as an opera singer.
Besides his work with Image And Nation, Glenn is the bassist, keyboardist, and programmer for Tesseract7, the bay area’s premiere explosive cyberpunk mayhem band.
I'm very glad I came upon your myspace page, this is the type of music I've needed an escape in lately; reminds me a lot of the days in which I was heavily into Black Tape For A Blue Girl.
YOUR MUSIC IS CALMING AND GROUNDING, SPIRITUALALITY PLUS. GREAT MUSIC, MYSTICAL. I LOVE YOUR BACKGROUND, AL NATURAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JERSEY GIRL BARBARA.
I am a 60 year old Wiccan. I have to be honest with you; I have never heard of you until now. I played some of your music on myspace and WOW!! I guess you could call it love at first hearing. Keep up what you do. Magical!
Thanks for your friendship Glen, I enjoy your music very much, very creative. Its good to be your friend. Looking forward to hear more music from you. Ramzi.
