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Hello Everyone,
Many of you probably already know who I am and what I do, but for those that don't, let me introduce myself:
My name is Blake and I create music under the pseudonym Broken Harbour. While originally a guitar player, with an undying love and dedication to metal and more experimental rock, I eventually felt restricted in the genre, and decided to dabble in ambient & drone music as Broken Harbour in 2008.
I spent almost a year making my debut record, I wanted something varied and different and I think that's what you get with this album. You get some light airy ambient, super low frequency drone, and even a track of nothing but heavily processed guitar. "Requiem for Dead Spacemen" seems to resonate with people, and is generally considered the focal point on the album. My personal favorite however is "Redshift", and the song gives a general indication of where Broken Harbour was heading next...
What came next was a little surprising. I almost completely abandoned the sound from the first album. I was bored with synthesizers at the time, so no synthetic sources were used in the composition, just samples upon samples of real recordings. What came out of the recording sessions is something unique. I can't really think of another record that sounds like it (maybe Bass Communion's 'Ghosts on Magnetic Tape' a little bit, maybe...). I sat on the recording for nearly 2 years before deciding to release it, as it needed to 'digest' it for a while before deciding to release such a different-sounding album to the world.
Next came this record, which was done after a long break and a studio rebuild. The album was originally conceived and written under the title 'Ansible' shortly after Gramophone Transmissions in 2009, but I decided to completely rewrite the album in 2011/2012. It's a much more straightforward ambient album, full of synths and reverb instead of sampled performances. Relaxed Machinery liked what they heard and released it.
I'm also one of those nutcases that still likes to release physical product, so if you still like to buy CD's and CDR's, I still do those.
Anyhow, happy to make you're acquaintance, I'm not the most avid forum user, but I'll do my best to participate and be interesting.
Many of you probably already know who I am and what I do, but for those that don't, let me introduce myself:
My name is Blake and I create music under the pseudonym Broken Harbour. While originally a guitar player, with an undying love and dedication to metal and more experimental rock, I eventually felt restricted in the genre, and decided to dabble in ambient & drone music as Broken Harbour in 2008.
I spent almost a year making my debut record, I wanted something varied and different and I think that's what you get with this album. You get some light airy ambient, super low frequency drone, and even a track of nothing but heavily processed guitar. "Requiem for Dead Spacemen" seems to resonate with people, and is generally considered the focal point on the album. My personal favorite however is "Redshift", and the song gives a general indication of where Broken Harbour was heading next...
What came next was a little surprising. I almost completely abandoned the sound from the first album. I was bored with synthesizers at the time, so no synthetic sources were used in the composition, just samples upon samples of real recordings. What came out of the recording sessions is something unique. I can't really think of another record that sounds like it (maybe Bass Communion's 'Ghosts on Magnetic Tape' a little bit, maybe...). I sat on the recording for nearly 2 years before deciding to release it, as it needed to 'digest' it for a while before deciding to release such a different-sounding album to the world.
Next came this record, which was done after a long break and a studio rebuild. The album was originally conceived and written under the title 'Ansible' shortly after Gramophone Transmissions in 2009, but I decided to completely rewrite the album in 2011/2012. It's a much more straightforward ambient album, full of synths and reverb instead of sampled performances. Relaxed Machinery liked what they heard and released it.
I'm also one of those nutcases that still likes to release physical product, so if you still like to buy CD's and CDR's, I still do those.
Anyhow, happy to make you're acquaintance, I'm not the most avid forum user, but I'll do my best to participate and be interesting.
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