No electric guitars were used on these recordings!

These are all new songs of ORIGINAL MUSIC written and performed by Austen Brauker from April to September of 2011.  All of these songs were done on an acoustic guitar and an acoustic bass. Austen played his own drum tracks on regular acoustic drums, with traditional rattles and Native American hand drums, and with an electronic drum machine. 

    Austen is a long time musician and has performed regularly since he started playing music over thirty years ago. Austen plays many different styles of music on acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, lap steel and slide blues. He plays the Native American flute and sings with a traditional Odawa drum group in Manistee, Michigan. He recently scored the soundtrack for an educational sturgeon documentary that was filmed locally, spotlighting the L.R.B.O.I. sturgeon rearing program. He has numerous CD’s of different styles of original music, most of it available online.

    Austen is an award winning screenwriter. He is the author of two full length fiction novels, several theatrical plays, much poetry and regular newspaper articles at three separate publications in Michigan. Two of his short plays, “Crocophile” and “Look What the Cat Dragged In,” have been produced by West Shore College, where he has also was published in Dark Matter, as best fiction writer for 2008. His work has won several writing competitions and is posted at various places on the internet, on writer’s sites and bookselling sources. He has been printed in numerous hard copy anthologies.

Austen Brauker

    Austen currently works as a Peacemaker/Probation Officer at the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Tribal Justice Center and as an artist, painting murals, like the well known piece at the entrance of the Willows restaurant at the Little River Casino and Resort. He has been commissioned by the Mt. Pleasant Public Schools to create eight 5’x5’ stained glass windows for two of their elementary schools. He creates many different traditional native crafts and various other forms of visual art. His work was used by the National Congress of the American Indian for the N.C.A.I. conference logo in 2011 and the original hangs at their embassy in Washington D.C.


    Austen is a tribal member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. He hunts and fishes as an expression of tribal sovereignty and to feed his family, physically and spiritually. In 2011 he was the first L.R.B.O.I. tribal member in recent recorded history to harvest a lake sturgeon, caught on hook and line, weighing 108 lbs. and measuring 6 ft. 1 in. In 2009 he was gifted with an 8 pt. bull elk. At 17 yrs. old, he brought home a 350 lb. black bear. He shares these special gifts with elders and other tribal members whenever possible. For Austen, hunting provides a direct connection to nature, builds deep reverence and respect, and ties him directly to the web of life. He is an advocate of spiritual unity among all of earth’s peoples and seeks to focus on our similarities as brothers and sisters, rather than arbitrary and divisive differences, hoping for acceptance and sharing as we evolve together in our collective world consciousness, as human beings.

   Austen is married to his beautiful love and best friend, his wife Victoria.



"Play the Kazoo" by Austen Brauker

No electric guitars were used on these recordings!

These are all new songs of ORIGINAL MUSIC written and performed by Austen Brauker from April to September of 2011.  All of these songs were done on an acoustic guitar and an acoustic bass. Austen played his own drum tracks on regular acoustic drums, with traditional rattles and Native American hand drums, and with an electronic drum machine. 

    Austen is a long time musician and has performed regularly since he started playing music over thirty years ago. Austen plays many different styles of music on acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, lap steel and slide blues. He plays the Native American flute and sings with a traditional Odawa drum group in Manistee, Michigan. He recently scored the soundtrack for an educational sturgeon documentary that was filmed locally, spotlighting the L.R.B.O.I. sturgeon rearing program. He has numerous CD’s of different styles of original music, most of it available online.

    Austen is an award winning screenwriter. He is the author of two full length fiction novels, several theatrical plays, much poetry and regular newspaper articles at three separate publications in Michigan. Two of his short plays, “Crocophile” and “Look What the Cat Dragged In,” have been produced by West Shore College, where he has also was published in Dark Matter, as best fiction writer for 2008. His work has won several writing competitions and is posted at various places on the internet, on writer’s sites and bookselling sources. He has been printed in numerous hard copy anthologies.

Austen Brauker



    Austen is a tribal member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. He hunts and fishes as an expression of tribal sovereignty and to feed his family, physically and spiritually. In 2011 he was the first L.R.B.O.I. tribal member in recent recorded history to harvest a lake sturgeon, caught on hook and line, weighing 108 lbs. and measuring 6 ft. 1 in. In 2009 he was gifted with an 8 pt. bull elk. At 17 yrs. old, he brought home a 350 lb. black bear. He shares these special gifts with elders and other tribal members whenever possible. For Austen, hunting provides a direct connection to nature, builds deep reverence and respect, and ties him directly to the web of life. He is an advocate of spiritual unity among all of earth’s peoples and seeks to focus on our similarities as brothers and sisters, rather than arbitrary and divisive differences, hoping for acceptance and sharing as we evolve together in our collective world consciousness, as human beings.

   Austen is married to his beautiful love and best friend, his wife Victoria.



"One Song To Sing" by Austen Brauker

No electric guitars were used on these recordings!

These are all new songs of ORIGINAL MUSIC written and performed by Austen Brauker from April to September of 2011.  All of these songs were done on an acoustic guitar and an acoustic bass. Austen played his own drum tracks on regular acoustic drums, with traditional rattles and Native American hand drums, and with an electronic drum machine. 

    Austen is a long time musician and has performed regularly since he started playing music over thirty years ago. Austen plays many different styles of music on acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, lap steel and slide blues. He plays the Native American flute and sings with a traditional Odawa drum group in Manistee, Michigan. He recently scored the soundtrack for an educational sturgeon documentary that was filmed locally, spotlighting the L.R.B.O.I. sturgeon rearing program. He has numerous CD’s of different styles of original music, most of it available online.

    Austen is an award winning screenwriter. He is the author of two full length fiction novels, several theatrical plays, much poetry and regular newspaper articles at three separate publications in Michigan. Two of his short plays, “Crocophile” and “Look What the Cat Dragged In,” have been produced by West Shore College, where he has also was published in Dark Matter, as best fiction writer for 2008. His work has won several writing competitions and is posted at various places on the internet, on writer’s sites and bookselling sources. He has been printed in numerous hard copy anthologies.

Austen Brauker



    Austen currently works as a Peacemaker/Probation Officer at the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Tribal Justice Center and as an artist, painting murals, like the well known piece at the entrance of the Willows restaurant at the Little River Casino and Resort. He has been commissioned by the Mt. Pleasant Public Schools to create eight 5’x5’ stained glass windows for two of their elementary schools. He creates many different traditional native crafts and various other forms of visual art. His work was used by the National Congress of the American Indian for the N.C.A.I. conference logo in 2011 and the original hangs at their embassy in Washington D.C.


    Austen is a tribal member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. He hunts and fishes as an expression of tribal sovereignty and to feed his family, physically and spiritually. In 2011 he was the first L.R.B.O.I. tribal member in recent recorded history to harvest a lake sturgeon, caught on hook and line, weighing 108 lbs. and measuring 6 ft. 1 in. In 2009 he was gifted with an 8 pt. bull elk. At 17 yrs. old, he brought home a 350 lb. black bear. He shares these special gifts with elders and other tribal members whenever possible. For Austen, hunting provides a direct connection to nature, builds deep reverence and respect, and ties him directly to the web of life. He is an advocate of spiritual unity among all of earth’s peoples and seeks to focus on our similarities as brothers and sisters, rather than arbitrary and divisive differences, hoping for acceptance and sharing as we evolve together in our collective world consciousness, as human beings.

   Austen is married to his beautiful love and best friend, his wife Victoria.

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"Looming Kundalini" by Austen Brauker

No electric guitars were used on these recordings!

These are all new songs of ORIGINAL MUSIC written and performed by Austen Brauker from April to September of 2011.  All of these songs were done on an acoustic guitar and an acoustic bass. Austen played his own drum tracks on regular acoustic drums, with traditional rattles and Native American hand drums, and with an electronic drum machine. 

    Austen is a long time musician and has performed regularly since he started playing music over thirty years ago. Austen plays many different styles of music on acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, lap steel and slide blues. He plays the Native American flute and sings with a traditional Odawa drum group in Manistee, Michigan. He recently scored the soundtrack for an educational sturgeon documentary that was filmed locally, spotlighting the L.R.B.O.I. sturgeon rearing program. He has numerous CD’s of different styles of original music, most of it available online.

    Austen is an award winning screenwriter. He is the author of two full length fiction novels, several theatrical plays, much poetry and regular newspaper articles at three separate publications in Michigan. Two of his short plays, “Crocophile” and “Look What the Cat Dragged In,” have been produced by West Shore College, where he has also was published in Dark Matter, as best fiction writer for 2008. His work has won several writing competitions and is posted at various places on the internet, on writer’s sites and bookselling sources. He has been printed in numerous hard copy anthologies.

Austen Brauker

    Austen currently works as a Peacemaker/Probation Officer at the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Tribal Justice Center and as an artist, painting murals, like the well known piece at the entrance of the Willows restaurant at the Little River Casino and Resort. He has been commissioned by the Mt. Pleasant Public Schools to create eight 5’x5’ stained glass windows for two of their elementary schools. He creates many different traditional native crafts and various other forms of visual art. His work was used by the National Congress of the American Indian for the N.C.A.I. conference logo in 2011 and the original hangs at their embassy in Washington D.C.


    Austen is a tribal member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. He hunts and fishes as an expression of tribal sovereignty and to feed his family, physically and spiritually. In 2011 he was the first L.R.B.O.I. tribal member in recent recorded history to harvest a lake sturgeon, caught on hook and line, weighing 108 lbs. and measuring 6 ft. 1 in. In 2009 he was gifted with an 8 pt. bull elk. At 17 yrs. old, he brought home a 350 lb. black bear. He shares these special gifts with elders and other tribal members whenever possible. For Austen, hunting provides a direct connection to nature, builds deep reverence and respect, and ties him directly to the web of life. He is an advocate of spiritual unity among all of earth’s peoples and seeks to focus on our similarities as brothers and sisters, rather than arbitrary and divisive differences, hoping for acceptance and sharing as we evolve together in our collective world consciousness, as human beings.

   Austen is married to his beautiful love and best friend, his wife Victoria.


"Come On Seven" by Austen Brauker

No electric guitars were used on these recordings!

These are all new songs of ORIGINAL MUSIC written and performed by Austen Brauker from April to September of 2011.  All of these songs were done on an acoustic guitar and an acoustic bass. Austen played his own drum tracks on regular acoustic drums, with traditional rattles and Native American hand drums, and with an electronic drum machine. 

    Austen is a long time musician and has performed regularly since he started playing music over thirty years ago. Austen plays many different styles of music on acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, lap steel and slide blues. He plays the Native American flute and sings with a traditional Odawa drum group in Manistee, Michigan. He recently scored the soundtrack for an educational sturgeon documentary that was filmed locally, spotlighting the L.R.B.O.I. sturgeon rearing program. He has numerous CD’s of different styles of original music, most of it available online.

    Austen is an award winning screenwriter. He is the author of two full length fiction novels, several theatrical plays, much poetry and regular newspaper articles at three separate publications in Michigan. Two of his short plays, “Crocophile” and “Look What the Cat Dragged In,” have been produced by West Shore College, where he has also was published in Dark Matter, as best fiction writer for 2008. His work has won several writing competitions and is posted at various places on the internet, on writer’s sites and bookselling sources. He has been printed in numerous hard copy anthologies.

Austen Brauker

    Austen currently works as a Peacemaker/Probation Officer at the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Tribal Justice Center and as an artist, painting murals, like the well known piece at the entrance of the Willows restaurant at the Little River Casino and Resort. He has been commissioned by the Mt. Pleasant Public Schools to create eight 5’x5’ stained glass windows for two of their elementary schools. He creates many different traditional native crafts and various other forms of visual art. His work was used by the National Congress of the American Indian for the N.C.A.I. conference logo in 2011 and the original hangs at their embassy in Washington D.C.


    Austen is a tribal member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. He hunts and fishes as an expression of tribal sovereignty and to feed his family, physically and spiritually. In 2011 he was the first L.R.B.O.I. tribal member in recent recorded history to harvest a lake sturgeon, caught on hook and line, weighing 108 lbs. and measuring 6 ft. 1 in. In 2009 he was gifted with an 8 pt. bull elk. At 17 yrs. old, he brought home a 350 lb. black bear. He shares these special gifts with elders and other tribal members whenever possible. For Austen, hunting provides a direct connection to nature, builds deep reverence and respect, and ties him directly to the web of life. He is an advocate of spiritual unity among all of earth’s peoples and seeks to focus on our similarities as brothers and sisters, rather than arbitrary and divisive differences, hoping for acceptance and sharing as we evolve together in our collective world consciousness, as human beings.

   Austen is married to his beautiful love and best friend, his wife Victoria.

"Chance Predeterminates" by Austen Brauker

No electric guitars were used on these recordings!

These are all new songs of ORIGINAL MUSIC written and performed by Austen Brauker from April to September of 2011.  All of these songs were done on an acoustic guitar and an acoustic bass. Austen played his own drum tracks on regular acoustic drums, with traditional rattles and Native American hand drums, and with an electronic drum machine. 

    Austen is a long time musician and has performed regularly since he started playing music over thirty years ago. Austen plays many different styles of music on acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, lap steel and slide blues. He plays the Native American flute and sings with a traditional Odawa drum group in Manistee, Michigan. He recently scored the soundtrack for an educational sturgeon documentary that was filmed locally, spotlighting the L.R.B.O.I. sturgeon rearing program. He has numerous CD’s of different styles of original music, most of it available online.

    Austen is an award winning screenwriter. He is the author of two full length fiction novels, several theatrical plays, much poetry and regular newspaper articles at three separate publications in Michigan. Two of his short plays, “Crocophile” and “Look What the Cat Dragged In,” have been produced by West Shore College, where he has also was published in Dark Matter, as best fiction writer for 2008. His work has won several writing competitions and is posted at various places on the internet, on writer’s sites and bookselling sources. He has been printed in numerous hard copy anthologies.

Austen Brauker

    Austen is a tribal member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. He hunts and fishes as an expression of tribal sovereignty and to feed his family, physically and spiritually. In 2011 he was the first L.R.B.O.I. tribal member in recent recorded history to harvest a lake sturgeon, caught on hook and line, weighing 108 lbs. and measuring 6 ft. 1 in. In 2009 he was gifted with an 8 pt. bull elk. At 17 yrs. old, he brought home a 350 lb. black bear. He shares these special gifts with elders and other tribal members whenever possible. For Austen, hunting provides a direct connection to nature, builds deep reverence and respect, and ties him directly to the web of life. He is an advocate of spiritual unity among all of earth’s peoples and seeks to focus on our similarities as brothers and sisters, rather than arbitrary and divisive differences, hoping for acceptance and sharing as we evolve together in our collective world consciousness, as human beings.

   Austen is married to his beautiful love and best friend, his wife Victoria.

"Carbon Seven" by Austen Brauker

No electric guitars were used on these recordings!

These are all new songs of ORIGINAL MUSIC written and performed by Austen Brauker from April to September of 2011.  All of these songs were done on an acoustic guitar and an acoustic bass. Austen played his own drum tracks on regular acoustic drums, with traditional rattles and Native American hand drums, and with an electronic drum machine. 

    Austen is a long time musician and has performed regularly since he started playing music over thirty years ago. Austen plays many different styles of music on acoustic and electric guitars, mandolin, banjo, bass guitar, lap steel and slide blues. He plays the Native American flute and sings with a traditional Odawa drum group in Manistee, Michigan. He recently scored the soundtrack for an educational sturgeon documentary that was filmed locally, spotlighting the L.R.B.O.I. sturgeon rearing program. He has numerous CD’s of different styles of original music, most of it available online.

    Austen is an award winning screenwriter. He is the author of two full length fiction novels, several theatrical plays, much poetry and regular newspaper articles at three separate publications in Michigan. Two of his short plays, “Crocophile” and “Look What the Cat Dragged In,” have been produced by West Shore College, where he has also was published in Dark Matter, as best fiction writer for 2008. His work has won several writing competitions and is posted at various places on the internet, on writer’s sites and bookselling sources. He has been printed in numerous hard copy anthologies.

Austen Brauker
    Austen currently works as a Peacemaker/Probation Officer at the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Tribal Justice Center and as an artist, painting murals, like the well known piece at the entrance of the Willows restaurant at the Little River Casino and Resort. He has been commissioned by the Mt. Pleasant Public Schools to create eight 5’x5’ stained glass windows for two of their elementary schools. He creates many different traditional native crafts and various other forms of visual art. His work was used by the National Congress of the American Indian for the N.C.A.I. conference logo in 2011 and the original hangs at their embassy in Washington D.C.


    Austen is a tribal member of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. He hunts and fishes as an expression of tribal sovereignty and to feed his family, physically and spiritually. In 2011 he was the first L.R.B.O.I. tribal member in recent recorded history to harvest a lake sturgeon, caught on hook and line, weighing 108 lbs. and measuring 6 ft. 1 in. In 2009 he was gifted with an 8 pt. bull elk. At 17 yrs. old, he brought home a 350 lb. black bear. He shares these special gifts with elders and other tribal members whenever possible. For Austen, hunting provides a direct connection to nature, builds deep reverence and respect, and ties him directly to the web of life. He is an advocate of spiritual unity among all of earth’s peoples and seeks to focus on our similarities as brothers and sisters, rather than arbitrary and divisive differences, hoping for acceptance and sharing as we evolve together in our collective world consciousness, as human beings.

   Austen is married to his beautiful love and best friend, his wife Victoria.

"Nibiru the Purifier" by Austen Brauker

The search for universal understanding, and realization of infinity, in front of the mirror within a mirror, within an open window of soulspace. All music written and performed by Austen Brauker. Originally written in 2001. Recorded and musically expanded in 2018.

I Will Find You

Stand in line to cash your time until the day you die.

Not That Funny

Teacher With A Gun

Everyone deserves a chance. The statue of liberty welcomes the "wretched refuse" and "lifts her lamp beside the golden door." Only people of 100% Native Blood were here at a time before America was founded. Then, the boat people, the immigrants from Europe, arrived in their pilgrim ships, wearing their buckle hats, jabbering in English, and needing to be fed. Even though they were sick and diseased and eventually took all the land and practiced government sponsored genocide against the indigenous people, helping them was still the right thing to do. America was built on blood and immigration. Remember, only he without sin can cast stones. Give me your tired and your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be free. America is the land of immigrants.

Immigrants

Whammy bar extravaganza by Austen Brauker. Variax guitar with Floyd Rose. Taking it to the cleaners. Hypnotic cloud waves making juicy wallpaper explosions.

Peace OUT

My friend Randy Rolston died the August before last. He was a kindhearted soul. A gardener. A father. One of the good ones. This song was written for him. It was my honor to have known him during his time on this Earth. I will miss you my friend. The title? The transmigration of the soul is a 49 day journey from one body, through the timeless bardo state, and into the pineal of a gestating fetus. The pineal forms on the 49th day, and on the same day, the soul enters this new receptacle. Randy Rolston - an awesome human being.

49 Days

Good for what ails ya. A little snake oil on the wound will build character!

Snake Oil

The hope is, that a new wave of kind activists will take the lead and change the outdated fear filled ideas of the previous generations. It is time to stop living in the fear that your leadership feeds to you. Stop consuming their swill of lies and false ideals. Stop feeding their pockets with your blood sacrifice. Stop fighting their greedy fake wars. We have witnessed the way their old ways have shaped the world, and now it is time for kindness, acceptance, open-mindedness and fair engagement. The lies you have been sold by the fear filled hate speakers cannot stand the light of truth and forward thinking people who actually practice what they preach. Rise up. This country is yours. Make it into the true democracy that it can be, where people do not go hungry, where people do not freeze homeless on the streets, where people get the medicine and health care that they need, where war and violence become a thing of the past. where we do not live in fear and clutch our phallic guns like scared children. There is a better way than what we have been shown. The wave of peace crashes at your doorstep, exposing your greed and ignorance. But, you are forgiven. Just get out of the way. Move over and make way for the new leaders, because your time is OVER. Hello.

Rise Up

Everywhere stretch the strands of awareness. Connected awareness as mycelium matrix embedded in the fibrous filaments of the conscious collective. At last I have reached the end of this great beginning in the hall of infinite mirrors, exploding and imploding as singularities beyond description, taking back the time and gravity from the lost dimension refolding, as an origami life form pulses with the breath of a blind-spot vision. Click the cog that rolls the wheel that grows the tree of revealing leaf-song. Reaching to the sky we see that the light is eating its own tail, to give a short glimpse of self as is catches its own reflection, again and again. Shhh...God is in the ROOM. Yes, she is.

Shhh (God Is In The Room)

Austen Brauker is not a ghost, though he imagines that he might be illusory. Words and music may have created his being as a mirror of reciprocal figment. Regardless of form, his function is to rock, and whether he be ethereal, corporeal, or un-originally arboreal, all within the glorious canopy shall comply with this naturally sanctioned musical mandate. Light the shining path to re-visionary shallow infinity, aglow with the cosmic growl of endless ferocious freedom. RAR!

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