David & Steve Gordon - Drum Medicine (2001)

Known for their pioneering contributions to world fusion, global electronica, and meditation music, new age composers David & Steve Gordon have amassed a prolific body of work since debuting in the early 80's. Through their label, Sequoia Records, the duo have explored a wide stylistic range of healing and relaxation music, from Shamanic drum and Native flute to ambient chillout and soothing acoustic guitar and piano compositions.

Among their best-known works are 1987's "Garden Of Serenity", 1994's "Sacred Earth Drums", and their popular "Cafe De Luna" and "Buddha Lounge" compilations of the 2000's. They continued developing different forms of healing and relaxation music with albums like 2018's "Theta Waves Zen Meditation" and 2020's "Quantum Theta Waves".

Musicians since their childhood days, David and Steve carried their passion for music through college, earning classical training while gaining experience gigging in jazz groups around Los Angeles. While working as session musicians in the early 80's, the brothers made frequent trips north to Sequoia National Park as a way to relax and center themselves amid the natural beauty.

They soon landed on the idea of combining the sounds of the natural world with ambient new age music and in 1982 issued their first album together. The inaugural release on their own Sequoia Records label, "Misty Forest Morning" was an immediate success and set the duo on a path of musical exploration that yielded unique works like 1987's "Garden Of Serenity", 1993's "Music Of The Tarot", and their breakthrough 1994 world fusion album, "Sacred Earth Drums".

The latter introduced tribal drum and Native American flute elements into their musical palette, a theme that would carry into future releases like 1999's Billboard-charting "Drum Medicine" and 2002's "Sacred Drum Visions".