Brine E.C. A Short Biography
Meet Brine E.C. AKA “Brine Sturgeon” “The Artist Formerly Known As Steve” flounder member, tunasmith and sometime eclectrical guitarfish out of somewhat uncategorizable but perhaps post- psychedelic rock ensemble COD.
Easily traversing the full range of popular musical styles from Prog Rock to, erm.., other types of rock, this multi-instrumentalist polymath can play all 6 of the guitars that he owns (apart from the slidy one.) And, after only a week mastered both F and C7 on the ukulele. Touched by the hand of COD and hailed as a genius by many of his multiple personalities the musician has enjoyed a decades long, essentially imaginary career as an award-winning and prolific singer songwriter, composer, poet and lyricist. Todd Rundgren, Prince, Keith Richards, Taylor Swift, composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and that bloke H out of Steps represent a tiny fraction of the platinum selling artists who have neither worked with nor indeed even heard of him.
Is Brine the last true psychedelic prophet of the Rock Era?
Despite the plaudits Brine remains a modest sort of cove who (luckily) eschews the prison of fame and fortune to “create art for its own sake and the benefit of future generations and those yet unborn"
COD bless you Brine!
The Velvet Curtain
May 2025